This pain is your pain. This pain is my pain. Everywhere I look, I see your pain…
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…That one didn't end up like the last one in terms of 'take-song-lyrics-and-replace-pain-with-one-of-the-words' as the last one. I feel slightly disappointed now.
That was a letdown. Ugh.
So, in the previous rant/backstory was just that – backstory. In that one I came to the conclusion that there are three main types of pain: physical, mental, and emotional.
Pain is often used as a way to lower defenses, break down seemingly untouchable persons, and many other like things.
And really, each of the three of us displayed a different kind, actually.
Wanna know who was which?
Okay, I was obviously physical pain. I mean, if I forget to take the meds then I literally can't function. Shattered tibia, fractured fibula, and a dislocated patella. Yeah, if that isn't physical pain, then what is? You know, aside from actual, intentional torture. Physical pain is raw, yet contained by what the mind can withstand. So, it is probably the least effective strategy to break someone. After all, the body has its limits and it is all something that some curious people will always fine a limit for.
AA was mental pain. It is a sort of coping mechanism for physical pain, in my opinion. Mental pain is like a transfer of what their body is feeling and compartmentalizing it. But it works like stuffing too much tissue paper in a little box. It will compress a whole lot better than sticks and stones, but eventually there will be too much and it'll explode. Another bonus to AA's strategy of mental pain and boxing it all up is that it will only come out in the same way that it came – slowly and without much pressure.
Kinda works in the most neutral way possible.
And Mello?
Mello is the rawest form of pain: Emotional.
He bases everything off of what he feels and how other people interact with him. He is a bit like soda in bottle. Everything is all fine and dandy until someone drops a Mentos in the mix. He feels everything in its basest form – and he doesn't know how to handle it.
It comes out in physical ways: words, body language, and violence. He isn't a loose cannon, no, I think that that would be similar to physical pain because you never know when or where they are going to buckle, but he is like an aimed cannon with a damp fuse – it could go off now, it could go off in five minutes, it could go off never.
But, the important part is that you know that there is always a potential for an explosion.
Pain starts as physical or emotional in most cases, sometimes they go hand in hand. Pain works like a warning system. It tells someone when something is wrong or has gone awry.
Aaaaaand owie…
I just jostled my leg at the end of the medicine's working hours. Yeouch!
That brings an end to this one, say goodbye, Dave!
(Goodbye!)
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Okay, so I was thinking that eventually I might do a rant book for the successors.
Each of them would obviously have their own style of writing – Near's would be more like a textbook with small flairs of misunderstand and little things like that, Mello's would probably be the angstiest of the bunch, and well, this is Matt's.
Any opinions on that?