Growing up, our parents do their very best to protect us from anything bad. However, the honest truth is that during the course of our lives we will be continuously hurt and there is very little they can do to prevent that. Pain is a crucial part of growing up, that in the moment feels like hell, but it ultimately makes us stronger people.

Different stages of life will bring on a wide variety of pains, but it will start off extremely minimal. As a toddler, you will lose a toy or rip a doll and it will feel like the end of the world. Not having that precious item you held dear will initially hurt a lot, but you will come to live without it. You learn to accept the pain and move on unless your parent caves into your sorrow and replaces your beloved belonging. While the kindness "fixes" the problem on the surface level, this does not allow the child to feel this pain which causes a deeper problem that will constantly emerge if they never experience pain and are not taught to cope with it.

Years later as a tween your heart will be broken by the boy in your history class that you thought you would one day marry. You will want to burn every notebook or folder you wrote his name on because you are in much more serious pain than you have ever experienced before. During this time of hurting, you will reflect on other situations where you felt a similar way and you will try to stay optimistic. However, this kind of pain will feel huge because rejection is humiliating. At this point in your life you will hope that there will never come a pain greater than this, but unfortunately, you can't grow up without hurting.

As an adult you will most likely lose some friends because that always seems to be a part of life. Losing your first friend of many years will cause a type of pain you have never experienced before. It will seem as if a half of you is missing and it will take an enormous amount of effort to overcome this. You will feel empty and disappointed, but you will have other painful experiences to think of and try to learn from. At this point, you will be able to cope with almost any kind of pain if you had parents who allowed you to fall, but helped you up and dusted you off.

Some people learn too late in life that pain is inevitable. The parents that catch their children before they hit the ground are ultimately hurting their children more. As much as our families want to protect us from every type of pain imaginable, they can't.

A pain like no other is the wave of emotions you will feel when a loved one passes away. Having to permanently lose another person is a parent's worse nightmare because that is one pain they could never even attempt to repair.

The problem with pain is that it hurts so much and it feels impossible to overcome and some people fall victim to never truly recovering from dramatically painful experiences. You will desperately wish that your current situation wasn't your fate when something awful occurs, but the truth is that everything happens for a reason. Every experience, no matter how painful, can teach a valuable lesson that makes a person much stronger.