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    Pain and pleasure are two important aspects of human experience that serve opposite yet complementary roles. Pleasure involves feelings of happiness, satisfaction and enjoyment from positive experiences. In contrast, pain involves physical or emotional discomfort from negative experiences. While they are polar opposites, both pain and pleasure are natural parts of life that help humans learn, develop and make choices. They represent the two sides of experiences that, together, define what it means to be human.

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    Pain and pleasure are two important aspects of human experience that serve opposite yet complementary roles. Pleasure involves feelings of happiness, satisfaction and enjoyment from positive experiences. In contrast, pain involves physical or emotional discomfort from negative experiences. While they are polar opposites, both pain and pleasure are natural parts of life that help humans learn, develop and make choices. They represent the two sides of experiences that, together, define what it means to be human.

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    Pain and pleasure are two important aspects of human experience that serve opposite yet complementary roles. Pleasure involves feelings of happiness, satisfaction and enjoyment from positive experiences. In contrast, pain involves physical or emotional discomfort from negative experiences. While they are polar opposites, both pain and pleasure are natural parts of life that help humans learn, develop and make choices. They represent the two sides of experiences that, together, define what it means to be human.

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    Camille Ibardolasa January 10, 2019

    Two Sides of A Coin—Pain and Pleasure

    Have you ever experienced something for so long you feel like you are in
    heaven? It could be a great piece of media, a test grade, results of something,
    good news or even that time to you confessed to your crush and they returned
    your feelings? And what about the opposite? Rather than the positive results or
    great works, instead it is a disappointment, a pang that hurts inside your heart.
    It’s like that sometimes. Those abilities shown here are pain and pleasure.

    Pain and pleasure—two terms that are important to life. These words are
    common to describing on how a person is feeling, both negatively and
    positively in that order. Pain and pleasure hold an importance to our lives. It
    helps us decide on which path to take or what choice to make. They are what
    help us be human—two keys that develop us. However, in all their similarities,
    they are still polar opposites from one another and they both impact people’s
    lives differently.

    According to Vocabulary.com, pleasure means “something or someone


    that provides a source of happiness.” Something like being at a party with
    friends, enjoying food at a nice restaurant, finally gaining a good test grade that
    you’ve studied so hard for and reveling in it—that is pleasure. Pleasure is the
    feeling of happiness and satisfaction. You are pleased by it with an elevated
    degree. It is something you like to experience. Pleasure is one of the traits we
    have as humans. We can’t get enough of it.

    As for Pleasure’s opposite Pain, taken from the same source, its meaning is
    “a physical or emotional discomfort.” It seems simple really and well, it is. But
    sometimes it isn’t. It can infer to a small pinprick of a needle or a really bad car
    crash. Mentally speaking, crying over a test or a long-lasting depression is also
    considered as pain. It is an experience, like pleasure. Pain causes emotional or
    physical distress, and even though this pain is negative, it is good for your soul, to
    feel this way. It is a natural part in life like pleasure. Pain gives a lesson to learn
    from mistakes and reminds us that we are human.
    Now, the number one question: “How is pain the opposite of pleasure?”
    Two abilities with two different emotions. To feel pain is to experience the things
    that you don’t want to experience. It hurts while in pleasure, nothing really hurts
    because all you feel are the positive feelings. Pain is something to be hated and
    pleasure is something to be loved. That is human nature to know this as it is. But
    no matter the instances, it is still a part of life. Pain and pleasure can go side to
    side despite the differences. You can experience pleasure and then pain the
    next second. (Kind of how I felt when writing this essay and the
    computer/internet gave out on me every time I tried to save.) You can have
    pain while someone is having pleasure or having pleasure in pain. (Hopefully
    not.) Pleasure and pain are two sides of the same coin, and we all need them.

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