pain

…But what is pain? Pain is a symptom. Pain is an effect. Pain is not the actual problem that you’re having, even though at that time it is dominating everything about your life. The pain is not actually the issue, just like when you’ve got a pain in your tooth because you’ve got a cavity, the pain isn’t the problem. And if you just do something for the pain, if you just put some pain relieving gel on your gums or take an anti-inflammatory or pain pill and the pain goes away, that doesn’t make the cavity go away…