Pleasure and Pain
Shouldn’t the universe have created a balance between pleasure and pain, both physically and mentally? Maybe there is a balance…
How easy is it to create physical pain? You can easily hurt yourself by striking or cutting yourself – the pain will slowly fade and your body will slowly heal. How easy is it to create physical pleasure? You can easily take a drug or pleasure yourself sexually – the pleasure will slowly fade as the drug wears off or you stop your other actions. Is this equal? It seems that the physical pain is easier to inflict and longer lasting…and that any drug you take will have a negative side effect which often causes pain.
How easy is it to create mental pain? I suppose it’s not easy to create, if you hurt someone you love that will cause mental pain, but by the fact that you were able to hurt someone you love on purpose, means that it wasn’t that hard to do so you couldn’t have loved them all that much right? So I’m not sure how to actually create mental pain. Of course, you could already by suffering from mental pain that you didn’t choose to create, and many people find this a crippling illness that they can never be cured of. How easy is it to create mental pleasure? I suppose you go out and do the stuff you like, you spend time with the ones you love, you do the activities you enjoy. I believe these pleasures are also temporary but they do work.
But why should the universe have balance here? Why should the universe balance anything? Maybe we should be shocked that these comparisons are as close to equal as they appear. Maybe they are actually in perfect balance but I am unable to see it.
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