The Difference Between Not Feeling Pain and Feeling Better

There are those that confusingly equate "lack of pain" with "pleasure".

Ladies and gentlemen, they are not the same thing. Let me give you a scenario so that you may understand this better:

      A man gets home from work one day and realizes that he needs to get in shape. So he takes off his work clothes and slips into his sweats. He grabs an "Insanity" DVD off the dusty shelf, neglected ever since his wife got it for him last year. He pops it in and is excited to be on the right track when he sees the pained expressions of the people as they struggle to complete their exercises. He decides that he doesn't want to have to go through that experience and resigns to watching TV.

This is the point, the difference. Just because the man didn't work out and feel any pain doesn't mean that he will inherently feel some type of joy, pleasure, or happiness. He will feel how he always felt, which is probably not that well. In fact, I beg to say that he will feel WORST than if he had gone through the pain.

See the pleasure and satisfaction come after the pain. It would be nice to go through life without friction, but without it, none of us would be able to move. And that's the lesson here. So that person out there considering whether or not to attempt to realize your dream, or maybe even take a chance on that guy/girl, listen to this. There is a possibility that you may get hurt in the process, however, pain is the toll on the road of the happiness you're looking for; just get past it.