Pain Can Be a Total Pain

Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy in 1789, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Before Franklin, in 1716 Christopher Bullock had written in his book The Cobbler of Preston, “’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes.” “Death and taxes” is a commonly used phrase to express two inevitable things in life, but I believe there are other inevitable experiences, and one of them is pain.