Pain is one of life’s many steps to becoming a great person. 

The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.

~ rocky balboa 

Some can fear it while others embrace it. Pain is one of those things in life where everyone reacts to it differently. Some people will hide from it and never face it while others search for it and grow off of it. 

      In life you HAVE to deal with pain. Whether it be emotional or physical you have to deal with it a one point or another. It could be a bad injury or the loss of a loved one. Because you have to deal with pain in life those who hide from the smaller pains will never be able to handle the real amounts of pain. 

     Throughout life I like everyone have dealt with pain. I personally don’t handle it in the best way but I don’t hide from it. Weather it be my mom going through cancer treatments all my life, or seeing a parent battling an addiction or even dealing with broken bones in the first quarter and finishing the game. I definitely haven’t dealt with the worst out of everyone but I have dealt with some. I haven’t dealt with it well but not the worst. I like to hide my pain. I don’t hide from it but I hide it from others. People need to stop hiding from it. 

      Instead of showing my pain and talking to someone I hide it. And I hide it really well. Like I was saying earlier with the broken bones in the first quarter after I finished the game I couldn’t get my hand out of my lacrosse glove it was so swollen. I went to the hospital after getting my glove cut off and I had broken 3 fingers and 4 bones in my hand. I broke 2 bones that game. The other two came from practices and games a week or so back. I hated my team but I knew they wouldn’t step in net so I had to finish the season. I was playing with broken bones for 9 days and nobody knew. 

      Because nobody knew I now can’t bend my fingers on my felt hand as much I use to. Because I hid my physical pain away from others for a team I hated, I lost mobility I’m my hand. That’s a super small amount of pain and a small punishment. I was just scared of them thinking I was weak. 

     Without a doubt if I had to go back I would change a thing, but that’s who I am, I don’t want people thinking down on me so I force through it. People need to force through the pain and grow from it. If they don’t force their way through they won’t be prepared for what will come.