Lorem Ipsum – We are the pain!

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

The reason I pasted the text above is manifold. Firstly, my designer friends – Ivis, Prasanna, Jason & Lolita will jump out of the chair (hopefully) when they know that these text above is the English translation of the latin phrase – “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit ..”

Designers use this phrase/paragraph at places when they have no text to compliment the design – basically filler text … I do wonder who started this trend of using this particular phrase. It’s an irony because when we use filler text, it should have no meaning or the least should be close to being meaningless. But the above phrase has a very strong sub text.

Similarly life as we know it has so much of sub text that once we get to the bottom of it we’d be over whelmed …

Coming back to the other reason of talking about pain – Another thought I would like to add to the above discourse is – What’s pain today is tomorrow’s pleasure. Pain and pleasure are both transitory and find themselves intertwined very closely as if they are two mouths of the same spiteful snake .. spiteful because we are always at the receiving end of them .. even pleasure 😀