The pained survivors of King Phillip's War in Rhode Island would not agree with this modernistic victimhood lovning advice. It is true that one should not run from pain, but that one must understand it, just a a pain therapist or good doctor would do. That is important, to understand the cause, the locus, and to preidct the growth or remission of pains and abuses to the body and mind. But not to entertain them! No to embrace them! To actually, MINIMIZE and ALLEVIATE them. This modern midwestern Mr. Greene, novelist, is young. And too immersed in modern folly and reckless ideas about pain. It's no wonder we have a dread opiod problem with this kind of muddy thinking and terrible advice.