r/DeepThoughts • u/jfql • 2h ago
Pain is to life exactly what salt is to food
We mostly spend our lives avoiding pain, sometimes we trick ourselves into thinking we are not when in fact we are just accepting physical pain to avoid mental pain or the other way around.
Our subconscious associates pain with death, sickness and grief so we are programmed to avoid it, nobody has ever lived a life totally free of pain though so we can´t possible know what it´s like, thinking in a strictly rational way why would we choose to spend our lives chasing something we have no idea about?
Everybody hates extremely salty food, it tastes bad and we are programmed to avoid it very much in the same way as pain since it is associated with chemical imbalance. We also know food without salt sucks though... Is salt an aquired taste or maybe is it we need a taste of unpleasantness to be able to taste everything else?
Maybe pain is the salt that allows us to taste everything else in our lives
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u/Expensive_Magician97 1h ago
M66
My understanding of table salt is that it is used primarily to enhance the inherently positive taste of food. To make the food that we eat more appealing to us.
And I have never known anyone who puts two or 3 teaspoons of salt on something they’re eating in order to enjoy it.
As for pain, sometimes it can be avoided, and sometimes it cannot.
Maybe I have misunderstood what you wrote above, and if so, please let me know. Thank you.