The best way to endure pain is to enjoy it?
A root canal treatment. My worst fear. It came true last week. I never forgot my first visit to the dentist at the age of 6. They assured me that it would just hurt as little as an ant bite. a) I didn't consider an ant bite as painless and b) I didn't want to imagine an ant biting me inside my mouth! I was shocked. When I was 15 I read a poem written by Ogden Nash on the same, garbed in humour of course. You can read it below. I thought if a great poet could feel this way, my fears were perfectly justified. Another time I had read somewhere that the worst pains of all was endured during childbirth. The second was on a dentist’s chair. None of these accidental readings really helped me in my future visits to the dentist. My terror of it only grew. I did not mind the idea of getting rid of all my teeth once and for all and replacing them with dentures. Until someone told me that a tooth extraction hurts worstest! Now I shall live the rest of my days in fear of the requirement of...