Good poem @honeybee. You know, pain protects us from danger. You know, the lepers, their disease prevents them from feeling any pain and that is why they hurt themselves more and more. When we put our hands on a burning plate, we will react and remove our hands because we feel the pain, but lepers whose hands have leprosy, they can be holding the burning plate feeling no pain but the skin will get more damaged and deformed, worst and worst. So I notice your first sentence that we must be willing to receive pain as we grow up - how true. They actually protect us from further damages and make us grow.