4/14/08

Human Genome Project

One of the talks of the human genome project is that it could potentially someday take pain away from humans. Our first thoughts on that are sounds great, right? Sure most of us do not enjoy pain or want to have pain, but believe it or not I feel pain is a part of life. There are people out there whom do not feel pain. They may see the pain that is happening to them, but they do not actually feel it. What is our lives without pain though? Pain is normal to us today, it is something that we have learned is a part of life and we must undergo it at times. Without pain i feel that life would not have its ups and downs, death would not be death, and would we not understand right from wrong. Pain is something that allows us to go through the easy and hard times, through pain we grow and we learn about what is right and what is wrong. When something hurts us or causes us pain we understand that maybe we did something wrong or that we wont do something again. When we suffer from pain we learn about something through what caused us that pain. Not only do we learn from it, but we have learned to understand that usually pain is associated with death. Whether it be the pain of grief or the pain of actual suffering. All in all pain is such a large part of our lives, shaping us into the people we are and allowing us to understand some of the importances of life.