Our Boo-Boos

Rachel Rundell

11/26/08

Mrs. Lindsay

Definition- Pain

Our Boo-Boos

 

            What is pain?  Is pain a boo-boo that you get from falling on the ground?  Or is there pain from losing a loved one?  There are many ways of having pain. Pain can mean many different things in many different cultures and genders.  The definition of pain according to Webster’s dictionary is a physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.  To a little kid, pain can be falling on the ground and getting a scrape on the knee.  A parent that is looking at the little kid could think that type of pain doesn’t hurt at all.  There can be emotional pain from a death or low-self esteem which can be very hard to get over.  For women and girls, pain is something that could make us try to look hotter than girls sitting next to us.  Pain can be thought of in many different ways to many different people.

             Many athletes have many types of pain.  From personal experience, pain can be your muscles straining to be in an uncomfortable position for a very long time.  To a soccer player, pain can be running around a soccer field for 4 hours.  A football player can think of pain as getting tackled and thrown onto the ground.  All athletes and ordinary people understand that breaking a bone is a terrible type of pain.  People of all ages can understand physical pain, but it is very hard, especially for little kids, to be able to understand emotional pain.

            Emotional pain is a pain that is from the inside and not a lot of people can tell if you have emotional pain.  I think about medical doctors when I think about emotional pain.  Medical doctors, to me, can understand emotional pain the most because doctors save lives and if they see a person die in front of them, it’s hard to get over that.  Imagine thinking that it’s your fault that someone died.  Another type of emotional pain that a lot of teenagers can understand is low self-esteem.  Every once in awhile, a teenager goes through a stage where they think that they aren’t good enough for the world.   A lot of teenagers think that nobody likes them and they are worthless.  Sometimes emotional pain can lead to physical pain, which isn’t good for the body.  For example, some teenagers cut themselves or beat themselves up because they think they have low self-esteem.  Emotional pain can be hard to get over sometimes and can get out of control also.

The pain that women go through for beauty can be easier to endure than emotional pain, but beauty pain takes a lot of courage and patience.  I remember the day when my mom first plucked my eyebrows.  My eyebrows hurt badly the next day. I sometimes wonder why women go through pain.  A lot of times girls think that they need to look the hottest compared to the girl sitting next to them.  I find that sometimes teenage girls try to look their best for a man.  Many high fashion models go through pain just to get booked by a top designer.   When girls see stick skinny models, they want to look just like those models.  They don’t realize all the pain that those models went through to look like that. 

            Pain can be defined in many different ways.  A way that pain can be most related to is in physical pain.  Physical pain can be scraping your knee on the ground, or it can be soreness of the muscles from keeping them in an uncomfortable position for a long time.  Emotional pain can be understood most by adults and some teenagers.  Emotional pain is pain that is hard to see from the outside.  This type of pain can be from a person dying, to having really low self-esteem.  Women go through pain just to look beautiful.  The world is full of pain, but pain is different for each person.