What is harder, to have a small pain that does never end, or to have a big pain that might end?

Answer 1

Small pain that never ends. I love pain.

Answer 2

The small pain is harder to tolerate, although it is minor the constant irritation eventually becomes unbearable some days. It is hard to ever imagine what life is like without pain.
The thought of the the big pain eventually subsiding is more tolerable because you know the outcome will be relief, eventually.

Answer 3

Small nagging pain messes with your state of mind over a period of time, because your always looking for a solution to solve the pain.

I would choose big pain any day, because it will end.

Answer 4

Depends on the magnitude of the small pain and whether it is tolerable over the long term, and how probabilistic it is that the big pain will end.

Answer 5

I would think small pain that never ends you could get used to and with a big pain that may end, if you know it's going to end then you should be able to suck it up and deal with it.

Either way, pain sucks, but they both seem bearable.

Answer 6

Depends on when the big pain ends.

Answer 7

I had toothache for many years. I developed an immunity to the pain and learnt to exist without being conscious of it.
Small pain never ending.
i remember the long prolonged pain far more vividly than the sudden excruciating short agony of a broken arm
Give me great pain briefly any day

Answer 8

A small pain because if you live with it every day and on you will acclimate yourself to it and won't even feel it most times. Or you could learn to master a small pain with 'mind over matter'.

Answer 9

having the big pain

Answer 10

small pain that never ends