B42
Public Record
Transcript from Public Speech.

On Relative Psychology: The personal pain scale.

[…] The motto of Relative Psychology is this: ‘Every person has only ever felt whatever they have felt.’ In other words, every person’s scale for pain is set to its own neutral; we all share that in common. Each person here has felt their own spectrum of emotion, up to this point. Your worst experience determines your deepest pain, and everything you feel after is measured against that pain. When a person experiences a pain that is worse than their worst pain, her scale shifts. The previous worst experience moves down one space, and all future pain will be measured against this new worst experience. This works equally for one’s “best experience,” the difference being that the experience is the one that has cause the most joy. […] This ‘spectrum’ of all the unique pains and joys that you’ve experienced is what makes up your perspective. […]

Even if the events in our lives, our heredity, and our environments have been entirely different, you and I can relate in the simple fact that each of us has each experienced the entirety of our emotional spectrum. […]

Proonish Marigold