Pain — a powerfully charged word, a critical reminder that we’re still alive, a testament to our existence. Be it physical suffering or spiritual anguish, all pain points inwards, cuts deep into the self. So incredibly private, yet universal, it’s an inevitable experience, share by all human beings. But it’s only when we’re conscious of life’s finitude, of the fact that it ends, that we see one of pain’s greatest functions play out: a means of finding meaning in reality and reason in existence.
疼痛,是一種強烈的字眼。它是令我們意識並證明自己還活著且存在的重要方式。無論肉體的苦楚還是心靈的傷痛,皆是內向、深切屬於自身。儘管這極為私密,卻是普世的人類都曾擁有與無可避免的歷程。當人們知覺生命有限,終將逝去時,疼痛所發揮最大的功能之一,就是為現實的存在尋找意義和理由。