The title itself appears strange about turning pain to power. Pain
in the sense is not suffering. It means psychological pain or mental stress.
Why do we have to undergo such pain or stress..?
Pain can be merely explained as a feeling which we get when
something odd happens. The further reasons of one’s individual pain depends on
his/her personal life or problems. For example a student’s problem could be
about his studies. For a working person it differs. Whatever the reason is pain
leads to only one point, 'Depression'. We get depressed for very small
reason almost every day, sometimes we express it and sometimes we don’t. So let
us now classify pain in levels. The pain due to very small incidents we face every
day is of first level. It has an impact of few hours or might be a day.
The incidents that penetrate in to our minds like losing someone
close to us or being insulted by someone may be in the office or in class,
these kind of incidents give us pain which pricks our heart every day which is
of second level. This kind of pain can be very powerful weapon in our hands. If
we can think why we had faced such a situation and strive to avoid it next
time, we can be a champ. For example, if our teacher scolds for not doing a
project properly, it gives us pain. If we are able to use that pain as a weapon
to take revenge on the situation and work hard on it, we’ll have a beautiful
project in our hands. This idea works for all other level two painful situations.
The third level of pain happens only with very sensitive or weak
hearted people. The reason of pain might be very small for a normal person but
for them, it means a lot. They get depressed in a very bad way living out from
the world leaving everything. This is the same situation of a person who
commits suicide. They get depressed so much thinking that quitting their lives
would be much better than to feel that pain. But this is not at all correct.
Quitting from our life means to give up, being a coward to face the situations.
Remember, always we should handle the situations, don’t let the situations
handle us. We don’t know how the life changes. Spring comes only after winter.
So fight till the end to win the final battle. Longer the struggle, greater the
victory! Change the pain to live, to fight! Fight using the pain. That’s the
ultimate power! That’s the urge to victory!
There is always a chance within us to turn the pain to
anger. That is getting angry on the reason of pain. It is like becoming angry
on the teacher for our mistakes in the example we've seen above. Anger
also has a very similar impact as the power from pain but in a negative way.
This can lead to a very dangerous mental condition. Getting angry on the person
who insults us could make us to put the person in trouble. Getting angry on a
company could make us leave the company. But we are the final failures for
these consequences. It’s we who lose everything in anger. Everybody asks us to
count ten when we get angry. For many people this does not sound useful.
Counting ten doesn't mean to count ten and then get angry. It means to think
for a minute about what we are doing.
The most dangerous anger is the anger on the society or humankind.
Becoming angry on all the people will result in losing the respect on human
lives. People who don’t have such respect are called ’Terrorists’. These kinds
of people don't care for life. Angry pre-matured young minds can be injected
such stuff which can turn them into merciless man-eaters. So always be far from
anger.
And that’s how converting our pain to a positive power will bloom
great flowers in our lives. Try them with your situations and see it by
yourself.
-- Harish
