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Numbness
11 years ago
So here's an interesting topic of discussion:
Is it better to feel or to be numb, even if what we feel is bad?
My personal answer is to feel, even if it really sucks. I've been sick for two, nearing three, weeks. I have crazy sinus stuff and my throat is pretty awful. I'm taking some benzocaine lozenges and coughing is a weird experience. I cough and don't feel it except in my much lower throat and diaphragm. But I hate it. >_> I don't like feeling nothing. It makes me extremely uncomfortable. I mean, pain is something that I can enjoy, but I don't want it. Any actually good feeling is better than pain.
Feeling nothing is a different kind of pain, however. One that I think worries us because it is a symbol of something missing from our body or character. If we're numb to what happens around us, isn't it us that has the deficiency, then? If we're feeling less, then we're missing something. If we're unresponsive to the things around us, then it is our hard hearts and unfeeling mind, right?
Sure, there are some instances where numbness is preferred over extreme instances of pain. My surgery a long time ago had me under ridiculous medications in an attempt to stave off "the most painful surgery and recovery we perform [at the hospital]." Literally crippling pain. Strangely enough, the ordeal reminded me that I was still alive, and the ordeal helped me feel better about the future, since sudden death is no longer a worry for me.
In regards to my own existence, I sometimes think a little suffering is good for the soul. Fasting and other old practices people used to do was for tempering themselves. I haven't fasted intentionally, and I've only known [edit: two others] who did it. Is anybody interested in fasting with me for a day?
Life's all kinds of up-and-down. We can't ignore the fact that somethings in life are less pleasurable or not pleasurable at all. We should take those opportunities that we can't resolve, and use them as opportunities to grow.
Sometimes the trough of depression comes with the mania, and sometimes that can't be avoided and well, we can be helped through it. And if you're one of those searching for signs, there's a sine right there. :P
Is it better to feel or to be numb, even if what we feel is bad?
My personal answer is to feel, even if it really sucks. I've been sick for two, nearing three, weeks. I have crazy sinus stuff and my throat is pretty awful. I'm taking some benzocaine lozenges and coughing is a weird experience. I cough and don't feel it except in my much lower throat and diaphragm. But I hate it. >_> I don't like feeling nothing. It makes me extremely uncomfortable. I mean, pain is something that I can enjoy, but I don't want it. Any actually good feeling is better than pain.
Feeling nothing is a different kind of pain, however. One that I think worries us because it is a symbol of something missing from our body or character. If we're numb to what happens around us, isn't it us that has the deficiency, then? If we're feeling less, then we're missing something. If we're unresponsive to the things around us, then it is our hard hearts and unfeeling mind, right?
Sure, there are some instances where numbness is preferred over extreme instances of pain. My surgery a long time ago had me under ridiculous medications in an attempt to stave off "the most painful surgery and recovery we perform [at the hospital]." Literally crippling pain. Strangely enough, the ordeal reminded me that I was still alive, and the ordeal helped me feel better about the future, since sudden death is no longer a worry for me.
In regards to my own existence, I sometimes think a little suffering is good for the soul. Fasting and other old practices people used to do was for tempering themselves. I haven't fasted intentionally, and I've only known [edit: two others] who did it. Is anybody interested in fasting with me for a day?
Life's all kinds of up-and-down. We can't ignore the fact that somethings in life are less pleasurable or not pleasurable at all. We should take those opportunities that we can't resolve, and use them as opportunities to grow.
Sometimes the trough of depression comes with the mania, and sometimes that can't be avoided and well, we can be helped through it. And if you're one of those searching for signs, there's a sine right there. :P
