Pain

  • Growing pain

    Tragedy and triumph seem to go hand in hand. Past pain could be paralysing yet addictive. Those who couldn’t get over it end up going back to it. Not for the broken experience but for the context where pain first occurred. When shattered, we threw the baby out with the bath water. In coming back, with time…

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  • Trust again

    People with bad experiences go through various phases in recovery. Some need a lifetime. Others could trust again in no time. All depends how the mind plays tricks. If pain recedes deep into long-term memory, then it takes longer to process pain. Short or long-term memory, bad experiences stay. They surface on unsuspected occasion (Murphy’s Law).…

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