You are right, I don't disagree. But withstanding pain is one level up in our evolution game and relies upon the upper layer of the human brain, where willingness, purpose and humanity are hardwired. Infidelity, fear, uncontrolled desire for other people or thnigs comes from the inner brain neurons, the instinctive and the emotional mind. Acts that hurt beyond reasoning usually satisfy from our instinctive and emotional motives that will touch upon our ego (spiritually) and amygdala (neuroscientifically). The amygdala will produce the hormones of cortizol (stress and fear) and relay the consequence of this specific act in your long term memory stores via the hippocampus. Now, psychoanalysis, meditation, prayers, knowing one-self, even simple binaural beats at 432hz are ways to approach past memories and experiences beyond instinct and emotion and develop such willingness and enhanced perception that you will be able to withstand burning.
For the purposes of the poem, I am not a strong person with enhanced perception. I am not there yet. I am, as you suggest suffering the consequences. Will I do it again. The answer depends on whether I managed to turn this experience into a fruitful quest within myself or not. If not, I will do it again and feel the same way. If not, I may or may not do it again but whatever my act it will be a concious decision. Only then we endure fire...
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Yes, I think that we can agree - we are just coming at questions from different directions. I have no knowledge of brain chemistry. Too bad your novel is only available in Greek!
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
Plot summary
When the protagonist realizes that he can recall having lived his life before, he decides to try to change it. But he discovers that because human choices tend to be mechanical, changing the outcome of one's actions is extremely difficult. He realizes that without help breaking his mechanical behavior, he may be doomed to repeat the same mistakes forever.