Pain changes everything. The most loyal of dogs will bite its master. The reserved woman will scream in labour. The strongest man will weep and moan in agony. With enough pain everyone will change. No exceptions.
Torture a man for a week, and what may once have been a bright eyed, bushy tailed, young, go-getter, will come out ashen and hollow. Give a young girl cancer and watch her age decades in the months she has to live. Look for the haunted fear in his eyes, and the unwanted wisdom in hers. Pain can break something inside you, make something grow within you, or become a part of you.
You can study it, surround it, understand it, and with drugs control it. After hours, days, months or years, eventuallly all you can do is accept it, let it pass, and pass it by. And if it stays forever, as it just might, I hope you change for the better. I think I might.
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