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Originally Posted by Plan9
I disagree, Strange. I think our memories of pain can be incredibly vivid and that it prevents us from doing things by learning.
Children get cut and burned all the time. You almost have to let a kid stick a coin in an power outlet and get zapped. "Told ya."
I remember what it felt like when I had 3" of my foot cut open down to the bone by a beer broken bottle. It makes me shiver.
I can easily recall what it was like when my exwife and last partner broke my heart. Mental wounds aren't as easily healed.
Memories are, as our buddy Stephen King said, like scars... they may stretch and fade with time but don't ever disappear.
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well explain to me why women keep having kids when it's often described as the most painful and traumatic experience one can have.
only last week i spent from 5am-10pm climbing a mountain in one of the most challenging days of climbing. despite all the pain, i can barely recall the pain. i can recall the elation of reaching the summit at lowes point quite vividly.
its a similar story with many other mountains ive climbed in Tanzania, Oman, and Malaysia. ironically enough, most of the toughest mountains, ive climbed twice.
By far the hardest day of my life was when i was climbing Mt Kinabalu in Borneo after being sick for a few days prior to the climb. By summit morning i could barely lift my legs and needed to pull them up with my hands. sure i remember the pain in my gut, the swollen fingers, the rainsoaked jacket, and the lethargic legs while being ravaged by horizontal drizzling rain in 30 knot winds in zero temparature. That day it took me a full minute to walk 10 metres, and it hurt like hell.
I honestly thought i was going to die that day. The only thing i wanted to do that day was reach the summit. I am glad i did. had i not i dont think id have the same fond recollections that i do now. what i do find is that in times like those is that people lose sense of pain and time.
perhaps memory is linked to whether something was successful or not