Dislocated shoulders and stretched tendons

So for some reason I've been thinking a lot about dislocating my shoulder. I first dislocated it my senior year in high school when I played football. I still remember how much it hurt and I knew as soon as it happened that something was wrong even though all the coaches told me it was probably just a stinger. Well once we got my pads off, we found that it was in fact out of place, so one of the coaches popped it back into place, and it felt SO good. One of the best feelings ever. Now, I wouldn't recommend going out and dislocating your shoulder just so that you can feel good when it's back in, but it is a great feeling.

This reminds me: why in the world do some people subject themselves to pain just so that they can feel good when it's over? Doesn't that seem rather counterproductive? If the only thing that feels good is having the pain end, why have the pain in the first place? I'm perfectly comfortable as I am. I don't need someone inflicting pain on me to make me more comfortable.

My dad used to do this to me all the time. He would start stretching the tendon in my shoulder, which really hurts, but would make me sit still and wait until he stopped. He would then say, "See, doesn't that feel good?" My reply would always be, "Only because you stopped!". So I'm not a big fan of inflicting pain on oneself in order to feel good. I actually use my dislocated shoulder story a lot when defending my point of view. "It feels really good to have your shoulder put back after it's been dislocated, do you want me to dislocate it for you real quick?"

Stupid.

Well, maybe this post was a little morbid, and maybe it was weird that I've been thinking about this lately, but hey, I needed something to write about.