Two Ponderances

I ponder two things tonight.

1. Which is preferable, a quick tremendous pain or a long dull one? I would much rather have a quick sharp pain than one that eats at you a long time and I think this goes for more than just physical pain. I'd rip a band-aid off instead of pulling it slowly, I'd rather have someone tell me harshly how they felt then let me wonder for weeks. Which type of person are you?
( I realized this tonight when I absolutely could not stand an earache I had at the library while trying to study. My twinges of terribly sore throat all day didn't bother me that much but this earache that wouldn't go away and caused me to not to be able to think drove me over the edge. I got so unreasonably mad.)

On another note I don't know that I could live with any sort of disability. Even when my hearing is partially impaired it drives me bonkers, who knows what would happen if my legs didn't work)

2. I got a great quote from my roommate today and it made me think about things. He said this to me as I was trying to cure my earache with an herbal treatment I read about online. He said, "Why can't you suffer like a normal person." Just think about that. Let it resonate. It can take you in so many ways. Is it humanity to suffer? Are human's not meant to suffer but have convinced themselves otherwise? Relate it to biblical ideas and see where that takes you. Jesus died to end suffering, is this what make him not human, that he takes on all the suffering? Or does it make him the example of a human because he suffered? What does suffering say about humanity?

My biggest thought is, I wish I had replied, "because suffering is not humanity's way"