“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi
Pain is and isn’t just like energy. According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy can neither be created nor destroyed but is merely converted from one form to another.
For example, the light energy from the sun can be harnessed by plants, which, through photosynthesis, convert it to chemical energy. Plants use this energy to grow fruit, which we eat. We store this energy for when we need to exert ourselves, when we convert it to kinetic energy. The energy never disappears, but is instead just displaced.
Pain is in a sense the same, creating a parallel to the first law of thermodynamics which I call the cycle of pain.
The manager is belittled by his boss because the boss was frustrated with the latest quarterly results, which disappointed because the customers were unhappy with the product. Upset, the manager comes home and mouths off to his wife, who is carrying her own tribulations from work.
The wife and mother then loses her temper with her son, who is hurt by his mother’s outburst. In pain and having witnessed a bad example from his mother about what to do with frustration, the son then goes to school the next day and causes a fight in the classroom during the teacher’s lesson.
His plans in tatters with the class disrupted, the teacher then exacts collective punishment on the whole class, who then each go and act out the negativity in their own separate ways.
The form of the pain changes, but it doesn’t go away – it’s spread out and perpetrated on new victims in a seemingly endless cycle of pain.
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I have included more than usual from this post as there was no point at which I could stop the story of the cycle of pain. However, the rest of the post is much more upbeat so do, please, read it. All the way through to the end. Each of us has the power to stop someone’s cycle sometime. If all my contacts on social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ele Friends etc) stopped just one cycle each year think what a power for good we could be.
Love to all and, for those who are not offended by my posting this, may God bless you all.
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