PAIN

Pain, an acute mental or emotional discomfort, is experienced by everyone many times during the course of his or her lives. This discomfort to a person may be the result of slipping on a patch of ice on the sidewalk, or may be the result of working hard on ones homework. Whatever the cause, precautions can be taken to avoid pain, like wearing a helmet while bicycling, but painful situations pop up all the time. …

…it is not a big deal. Because misery is due to the wrong turning of something that means a lot to a person, the magnitude is great. These meaningful things however can be keep on the right path because they are big, and need planning (unlike unpredictable painful situations). This provides people with a chance to put their priorities straight and choose whether or not, in the long term, if they want to be miserable.