PAIN.
"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."
It hurts, doesn't it. Like needles poking through your skin, inside out. Pain--but what kind of pain, more specifically speaking? There are different kinds of pain.
Physical: You are riding your bike and all of a sudden, you hit a corner of asphalt that somehow stops you in your tracks, the bike turns, you fall. You hit the concrete knee first, sure, just a scrape, no big deal. A little bit of blood here and there, you don't feel it fully yet. The adrenaline coursing through your body has you experiencing the moment first. The moment of realization, I fell. So then you look yourself over and up, and it hits you. The pain. It hurts. Can you bear it? Will you?
Emotional: You are having lunch with a friend, and your phone rings. You get awful news from your parents that a very close relative has passed. For a moment, you freeze, you don't know exactly what to say or how to feel. You ask yourself, what should I feel? Anger? Sadness? Disappointment? Shock? It all hits you at once. You feel your heart ache a little. Your insides twisting. Denial can hit you too, if it takes you by surprise. Well, most deaths do. So your response? Do you cry? Do you yell? Do you protest or calmly deal with it?
Spiritual: To put it simply and avoid reaching the dark areas, this, simply is you lose your faith or your faith weakens. So your spirit is broken, not shattered, but broken.
Emotional: You are having lunch with a friend, and your phone rings. You get awful news from your parents that a very close relative has passed. For a moment, you freeze, you don't know exactly what to say or how to feel. You ask yourself, what should I feel? Anger? Sadness? Disappointment? Shock? It all hits you at once. You feel your heart ache a little. Your insides twisting. Denial can hit you too, if it takes you by surprise. Well, most deaths do. So your response? Do you cry? Do you yell? Do you protest or calmly deal with it?
Spiritual: To put it simply and avoid reaching the dark areas, this, simply is you lose your faith or your faith weakens. So your spirit is broken, not shattered, but broken.
