wounds

people say that pain is a good thing. it tells you that you are still alive. dont know about you, but i avoid pain whenever possible, especially the intangible pains. imagine you are shot in the arm, the wound burns, pain lancing up your arm. fire burns around the wound, clouding your mind in a torrent of electrical impulses that demands your immediate attention to the injury. now supposedly, you can shut off the pain receptors in your arm, leaving behind a blissful numbness where there was once agony. as the memory of the malady fades, you begin to return to your normal state of being, doing your chores, back to your everyday life. all the while the wound festers, spreading its insidious tendrils of infection. like all untreated wounds, the foulness spreads, inhibiting natural healthy growth. now presume yet again, the brain synapses are reconnected, the conduit for communication between arm and brain is reestablished. what do you think happens?

a torrent of information floods in. the sensory deluge saturating the brain, causing temporal disorientation. the overload sends you reeling, gasping for air as you feel the air driven out of you. the agony is too almost too much to bear. so what do you do now? do you grit your teeth and bear the pain, slowly begin the painful process of healing and mending, or do you continue to block out the pain, knowing that if left alone, the wound will continue to spread, wrecking more havoc to the once healthy body.