Imagine if there was a map where you could see the places on Earth with the most amount of human suffering. A crazy thought, right?

You might right away think of the myriad places of wars. Or all the hospitals and other places where people have been treated with various illnesses, or waiting to die. Or homes with domestic violence scattered allover this beautiful planet.

But might not delivery rooms be where the most physical hurt is experienced? And where also the most joy is felt?

Alas, this article deals not with the physical pains we ensure, but the emotional ones.

A place of hurt can be your own coach. Not that you are sitting uncomfortably, or get an accidental elbow in your side when it’s crowdy. No, it could be a movie you’re watching that raises memories within you of the time when someone did you exactly the same you’re watching unfold on the screen. Someone creating anguish and torment so powerful, and so akin to what you went through yourself, that it brings those hurtful memories back like it happened yesterday.

And for a while you’re right there, and wonder whether you’ll ever be wholly again.

A place of hurt can be the most picturesque place on the shore where one could inhale the fresh ocean air, and feel so alive. But also be molested when least expected. Things happen that shouldn’t happen. And that fresh air, or any shore or beach, may remain a place of hurt in one’s memory or subconscious.

A place of hurt can be