Pain causes Violence

Was accosted in the street last week by a young gentleman accusing me of taking the piss out of him and looking to cause some violence. Turns out he was actually a very restrained guy whose 'Buddha Nature' shone through the drunken haze as he realised very quickly that I was simply calm and well mannered and the chaos lay with him - an amazing achievement given the state he was in. The estranged mother of his child had set the child against him and he was about as rejected as you can get. In parting I made the casual mistake of wishing him a "good one" and this cut deep. He was back at me wishing to cave my skull in. All he wanted was his pain to be respected and he was paranoid that people would make fun of him. Interesting on many counts but primarily because he felt a fool to be hurt, and secondly because the response to his pain was defence and violence. Writing this I see maybe my analysis at the time was wrong (I was on the phone at the time and you don't expect to handle issues like that in the parentheses of another conversation!) that the issue was not that the pain caused the violence but the sense of wothlessness that he had been vulnerable to pain, that his girlfriend had wounded him so easily and successfully, and that he ever got into this situation at all.... ok the original point that pain causes violence as a means of expressing that pain externally and making it tangeable will have to remain on hold... 2 analyse another time