When I think of pain I think of a lot of different things. I think of loss. Of failing. Heartbreak. Emotional pain is the first to come to mind. Then there's the more simple, straightforward pain. Hitting your knee on the corner of a coffee table or getting stung by a bee. I always think of getting a splinter when I was a kid. To me, at the time, that was the worst imaginable pain. However, I never wanted my mom to take the splinter out because I knew that would hurt even mor