Dramamine

It’s funny how quickly things can fall out of place… how one event, something that seems insignficant at the time, can escalate into something that changes everything. If you could know before hand how much thing would change… for better or for worse… would you still go ahead? I suppose it depends what it is, and how it changes things. I’m not explaining this right.

It doesn’t really matter.

I was thinking earlier about memory. More specifically, memory of pain. Physically, it doesn’t exist. You can think, yes I broke a bone and it hurt, but your body does not re-live the pain. You do not feel the sensation of breaking a bone again. Is the same true of psychological pain? Given enough time, can any emotional wrong-doing be forgotten in the same way? You can think, he broke my heart, but do you still feel the sensation of your heart breaking? You may feel sad at the memory, but is it the same as actually feeling it again? I don’t think so.

Then again, I don’t think that’s always true. Some wounds never heal completely. Maybe they lessen, but some things never leave completely. When someone close to us dies, over time the pain eases, but it never fully goes. Even many years later, just the mention of the persons name is enough to bring a flood of emotion. Physical pain does not do that, even to a smaller extent. The only time you can feel physical pain, is when it’s happening. Then and there.

Maybe I’ve missed something.

Maybe though, emotional pain runs far deeper the physical.

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