Have you ever tried on a new exercise (like yoga etc.) or
got a very nice body massage? Did you also feel those small lumps of pain in
different parts of your body which abruptly come out and you tend to say, “OMG,
I never knew I had pain in this part too”. Let me tell you something, these
pains do not occur because you press the body there, they have always been
there, you were just not very aware of them! But when you pressed, they started
flowing out!
Doesn’t something very similar happen to us, in real lives? We are not even aware of certain pains that
exist and we go on living with them, making them a part of our lives, our
personalities. We smile and laugh and do everything that looks normal to
everybody everyday but when an old friend calls up randomly pressing ‘there’,
the pains start to flow out, and we say, “OMG! You are talking my mind out. This
is exactly what is happening with me.”
Pain is a very funny word and according to me, very creative
too. ‘Funny’ because it can
disappear anytime it wants, remain hidden or make you look crazy in front of
others. (It’s so funny that it reminds me of “DEVDAS” – the forever sad character
from Indian Bengali novelist ‘Sarat Chandra’). ‘Creative’ because it has given birth to so many masterpieces of
art, literature and poetry. (I mean what percentage of artists create when they
are super happy, if I am super happy I would rather go party and dance my heart
out rather than write a poetry)
So something which is
so funny and creative, I think it (or at least a part of it) should stay with
everyone! It’s just that, we should be aware of its presence in ourselves.
Have you read of Latent heat in school? Well I have and as I
remember, it spoke of a heat which remains latent (dormant) unless we create
some force which evokes it. Similarly, the pain is the latent heat in all of
us. Now you brood over it or turn it into a force- that depends on you!
Discover the pain in you and either USE it or remove it.
Get that great body massage
often, the pain will go. Talk about that great body massage often, and the pain
will make a great art piece!
