Definition of Pain

The interchange of emotions and feelings within one’s self is a particularly hard thing to measure. A person cannot sit and say that they are 5 happy or 11 angry. It is a more variable and subjective thing to concisely express. Humans are also changed depending on what such feelings may amount to. One may be very happy, and will be moved to do an act of charity, whereas one who is feeling a large summation of anger will be moved to injure or put down another. The levity that emotions and feelings have on human action is such a horrifically understood concept that most people really have no understanding of such a thing. Of all such emotions, pain is a combatant of positive and negative change. To look at happiness, you see acts of kindness and good, whereas anger more often then not causes nothing but trouble. However, pain does two things; pain is one of the most prevalent causes of human change, and is a provoker of human deterioration.
With everything people say about pain, generalizing it to some common and minimalist thing, the first thing to be explained is what pain is not. Pain is not measurable. Pain is not something that you can look at and say how much pain you feel compared to someone else. Pain is not a structured defined thing. Pain is relative in every sense of the word. If a person is crying because their dog died, they may be feeling pain because of it, the expression of that pain being the tears. Another person may be screaming in anguish because they fell of a bike and shattered their elbow. They are also feeling pain, as expressed by their screaming. To look at both of those situations and say that the person whose dog died is feeling more or less pain then the person with the shattered elbow is wrong. The pain they are feeling is different, one being physical and one being emotional. The similarity is that they are both in pain. Both have felt pain because of an outside force in their life, and both understand what pain is. In a sense they