Emotional pain – a signal of our disobedience, of our delusions. It reflects the conflict between the desired and the real, between the past and the future, between thought and deed. Inner pain may be associated with feelings of love and hate, sadness and rejection. Many writers and poets embellished pain with their fantasies and made the reader believe that suffering (that is, pain) can be purifying. They made us believe that only having experienced mental anguish, a person can know the meaning of his own life and rise to a new level of development.
But if the pain goes away? Even the example of literary characters can be traced that, pain rather, destroys them, than contributes to their development and happiness.
By and large, our answer to the question, What is life - pain, suffering or joy, pleasure and enjoyment - depends on our existence. This conceptual question becomes the philosophy of life. And it depends a lot on how we feel pain.