Argumentation Essay

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And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain." And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

-The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

Pain can be all-consuming, pervading our senses and making us despondent and irrational; we dread our darkest hours with the same intensity that we look forward to the happiest days of our lives. But pain is a natural element of our existence, providing us with the means to know ourselves better, and giving us the ability to experience ultimate happiness. Pain is a necessary condition of human existence; we must embrace and accept it.
Pain is a vital, natural ingredient in our lives. Sorrow is as natural as happiness; the happiness surrounding the birth of our children is as natural as the melancholy surrounding the deaths of our parents. The grieving process that takes place after the loss of a loved one is excruciatingly painful but it must be surmounted in order for us to move on. We must realize that pain is the result of happiness and happiness is the result of pain. For instance, the happiness that we feel from being a loving relationship makes a break-up all the more painful, while the pain that we feel from that loss makes our next love all the more joyful. Although we are sometimes overcome with sadness so acute that it causes us irrepressible pain, we must accept that pain is nature’s way of alleviating sorrow; we must also accept that the end result of pain is happiness. Pain allows us to confront the hardship in our lives, allowing us to put sadness behind us.
By realizing that pain is natural and healing, we can understand that without it we can never truly know ourselves; it is often in our darkest hours that we begin to gain insight into our true character. When we disappoint ourselves and those we love, it is painful. But it is pain that provide...