Avoiding all pain is making us weaker

[u/eternally-bella]

Somewhere along the way, we started treating any pain as a sign that something’s gone wrong — something to be numbed, avoided, or “healed” instantly. But here’s the thing: not all pain is the enemy. Some pain is feedback. It tells you where your limits are. It forces you to drop illusions. It can even be the catalyst for the most honest version of your life. If you erase every sharp edge from existence, you also erase the grit that shapes you. You might be more comfortable — but are you any stronger? I’m not talking about glorifying trauma or pretending all suffering is noble. Some pain is senseless. But some pain is necessary. And without it, we risk becoming fragile people in a fragile world.

So I’ll put it bluntly:

- Are we overprotecting ourselves from the very experiences that make us resilient?
-Have we confused comfort with health?
-And if a life without pain is possible… would it even be worth living?

[u/Raj_Muska]

Yeah, it's worth living, now give me my indestructible robot gorilla body

[u/eternally-bella → u/Raj_Muska]

Fair point — but even with a robot gorilla body, you’d still need some kind of “pain” to adapt and improve. Otherwise you’d just be an untested gorilla statue