I wrote this a while ago and was too chicken to post it. It's barely a post. I trot it out now as a gift for a friend. -spj
I read once in my teenage years, I think in my high school health book, that the human body cannot physically remember pain. It was probably the only thing I really learned from my high school health book, but think about that. That's huge. We can remember we were IN pain, but we cannot recreate the physical sensations of that moment. It's how babies kept being born before G-d invented epidurals. It's how we fall in love with someone new after a broken heart. It's how we survive as a species. It's how we forget and move forward.
In my time on earth, I have had my fair share of pain. Thankfully first world type pain, but pain none the less. Broken heart, broken soul, embarrassment, shame, death of loved ones, physical injuries, numbing fear, the list is endless. But that darn health book is right. As time passes, I can't remember the actual pain. And eventually I barely even think about the specific incident. And when I do, I remember it with a gentle gauzy filter over the lens of my memory.
