Definition Essay On Pain

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Life is filled with inevitable pain. Through the years geniuses have come up with innumerable solutions to life’s infinite problems. Yet, like a hydra in Greek mythology, if you cut off one head, two more grow back in its place. With one simple fix comes a new obstacle that reveals itself. Although there is no single solution to dissolve what is known as pain, I aspire to lend a hand in the efforts to lessen it.
Pain, by my definition, is an emotion that differs in severity in which one feel discomfort. Every person undergoes pain, it is a feeling that makes human beings exactly what they are, human. However, if something can be done to make the inevitable reality that humans are going to suffer from pain, any less extreme than it is now, then I am going to be a part of it.
There are people who cede the will to continue fighting, whether it be against cancer, infection, or any other disease, solely for the reason that the pain has consumed them entirely and caused them to
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I have no idea how I even thought about it; it might be a collection of other ideas, a dream I had, or just a thought that sprung into my brain, like a seed that traveled with the wind swiftly landing into the center of my ideas. Whether I have to connect the nervous and the cardiovascular system, or work with connecting nerve cells is something that still needs work. The details of the matter are elementary to what they will later become. I believe that college will allow me to see life’s pain and work towards fixing it. In calculus, I’ve worked toward uncovering solutions to problems that are in no way simple. The next stage of my life will hopefully allow me to use the properties of calculus, the applications of biology, chemistry, and physics, outside of a textbook problem, and in a real life problem like pain that affects others in unimaginable ways within the vast world that I call

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