One can learn from experiences of pain ending up seeing life in different way. Learning is a process of gaining knowledge through experiences. In the learning process pain is often necessary when it helps people to build strong personalities. In “Discovery,” Liann Sumner realized she took everything in her environment for granted without realizing how effective they are until she visited her home country, India. Sometimes one has to be in painful situation to learn the lesson. Dick Gregory in “Shame” did not know the meaning of a word shame until the classroom incident where a teacher humiliated him in front of his classmates. Many learn by experiencing pain where as others learns by seeing someone’s sadness. In “I Ask My Mother to Sing,” Li-Young Lee feels pain in his heart when he hears his mother and grandmother singing and longing for their home country. As can be seen, pain can be the necessary ingredient in the process of learning only if it contributes to one’s success. Many can learn how to be grateful for small things through experiencing discomfort. One way to give a valuable lesson is taking away things that are around and we do not even appreciate the presence of such as air, waster and public works. Without air creatures cannot even survive for five minutes. Air is free and essential to creatures’ lives, but we most time are not grateful for that. When tourist travel to undeveloped countries where public services such as traffic lights and pedestrian crosswalks are not provided as conveniently as in the States, they realize how helpful those are and those even secure their lives. Sumner was shocked when she was going on a journey from the States to India that there is no pattern to the traffic. The dead Brahma bulls were on the side of the road, bus driver honking for an oncoming vehicle and pedestrians. “All my life, I had been blind to luxuries ...
