The Strange Phenomenon of Taking Pleasure From Pain
We seem to take a certain obscene pleasure from painful experience. There's a certain beauty and revelation in it.
I get it when I run hard, or when I do a strenuous workout. It hits me hard, so much so that I seem to disappear. All there is is the experience of pain in my body, and the personality of me seems to recede. I expel every ounce of my physical self, pushing the prowler or pressing the bar overhead that my central nervous system bursts its banks. Cells in…
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