Pain is an inescapable feature of life. There will be pain, emotional and physical, at various times in our lives; how we deal with it determines our general level of happiness and our views of the positivity (or negativity) of the universe.

The first thing to realize is that, for most people, pain passes. It is a temporary, or transient, aspect of existence. Things get better. They swing from good to bad and back to good again.

One way to look at pain is as a necessary lull period in our lives, when we don’t have to do anything but nurse our wounds. Think of pain as a mini-vacation without the frills and joys. It is possible to absorb a punishing amount of pain for longer than you think. When the pain goes, the relief … exquisite.

One of the good things about having pain in life is that it leads to a greater appreciation of the good times. This is unavoidable. You can’t take for granted a happy day when you’ve had three miserable days backing it up.

It is debatable whether mental or physical pain is worse: I would argue that mental pain is worse, because you cannot escape it. A broken leg can be treated with morphine but a broken heart knows no medication. Unlike physical pain, it is possible to be caught in loops when experiencing emotional pain. The mind’s eye picture keeps recurring and recurring and we can’t get rid of it. That’s unfortunate, because life is, largely, good.

There are a few things you can do to assuage pain, particularly the more tenacious kind of mental unpleasantness.

(1) Eat well.

Chocolates or sweets come in handy here big time. A down-in-the-doldrums day can be rescued with a superb submarine sandwich or a tasty milkshake. Even if it doesn’t fully work, it can forestall the emotional pain from getting worse.

(2) Exercise.

Walking has been shown to do wonders for the emotional state — and if you’re physically in some pain, in say your leg, stretching out those muscles and impacting the bone can only help as long as you don’t do it to excess.

(3) Hanging out with friends.

Socialization can make us laugh, or cry, or feel a hundred different emotions that paper over emotional or physical pain. If you’re lucky enough to have a friend, call him when things get rough. Many men have trouble speaking about the shit they’re going through; I urge you to overcome your male stoicism and reach out to your friend. Only a worthless asshole would fail to reciprocate.

(4) Build something.

If you are clever with your hands, getting involved in a DIY project, like building a birdhouse or renovating a car’s engine, can take your mind off the pain. Reading a book is almost as good, and you don’t need to be particularly handy to do that.

These are some of the things you can do to help live with pain. With any luck, the pain is only a visitor — a bug, not a feature of our life. When times get better, you can look back at the dark periods and only laugh in wonder that things seemed so awful.

under the mainstream media’s carpet

The ugly truths about the world are buried by the mainstream media as they continue swimming in an ocean of lies propagated by a need for a feel-good world. The fact is the poor are worthless and ugly and undeserving of a safety net. The fact is large numbers of nonwhites were hauled into the white First World to make the left wingers feel better about themselves. The fact is women cannot build a skyscraper, a space shuttle, a fast car or a patio deck around the back of the forested house on their own without male help and own the title “girl boss” because somebody simply decided the “glass ceiling” had to go.

There are countless other examples. All pointing to the conclusion that the media would rather misdirect than inform. A truly neutral media source (like Sorinfo) would be a blessing-not-in-disguise, for it would be unbiased hard-rock-candy information that went for the jugular, rather than dusting off the feet of the ungulate.