Pain & injury

[azurelunatic]

I have a weird pain threshold. It's the sort of thing that will have me sulking over a hangnail until it heals (actually, hangnails are pretty sharp sorts of pain, but that's beside the point) and then whacking my leg into a sharp desk corner, getting a nasty-looking top layer of skin gouge that either fails to bleed or just slightly prickles with blood, having an alarming bruise ... and wondering where the hell it came from.

I notice it at the time, of course. I'm always smacking into something or other, and it always hurts when I do it. But it's not worthy of committing to long-term memory unless it's something truly epic, or truly painful, or truly dumb, or in some way distinct from all the other times I've mashed myself and gotten an owie.

Evidently bumps, scrapes, and bruises that you don't know how you got are indicative of Problems of some sort or other.

Pain hurts. Why remember it?

Comments

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Bah. Injuries file in RAM, and get overwritten really quickly. They're low-priority, like things someone is saying in the background. I notice them at the exact moment that they happen, but in less than a minute I'll probably look at you blankly if you ask me what happened.

[azurelunatic]

My co-workers are disturbed by some of the things I pick up from the usual klutziness and the desk.

[moniqueleigh]

I have the same pain threshold. Sharp pain = *sulk* OwOwOwOw for days. Bruising type stuff = Ow at the time, followed by WTF days later. *nods*

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Pain hurts. Why remember it?

In answer, the Scadian fighter's mantra:

"I like pain. Pain is my friend. Pain helps teach me what not to do."

[azurelunatic]

That's warrior-mind. This is in housekeeper-mind.

But, yes. "Pain hurts, sir. Why court it?"

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Well, no, don't *court* it. But don't forget it either.

Housekeeper mind can still benefit from the Litany: Pain can help teach you a better way to hold a potato that's being peeled.

Then there's Zen Master mind: "There is NO pain. Pain is an illusion. (Yeah, an illusion that REALLY EFFIN' HURTS!)"

[azurelunatic]

It will probably not teach me to close my desk drawers all the way, or to look at my desk drawers before moving while sitting. And that is where 95% of this exact type of injury comes from.

Pain has taught me to walk with my feet faced precisely forward, instead of duck-toed. And to close the cupboard doors while working with the kitchen counters.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd learn that last one about the cupboard doors. I whack myself in the head that way rather more often than I'd like to admit. :-/

[azurelunatic]

I do this very rarely these days. Because, OW.