Disregarding the pronouns, I maintain 'no man's pain is insignificant when it is his own.'

Neuropathic pain arrives without warning like a fantasm from the dark that leaves agony. A persons optimism can be yanked out by the roots, to be replaced by pessimism, because the good times without pain always have the implication, "The pain will return."

I've been proscribed many drugs; none have helped. I've tried many herbs; none have helped.

My story and many similar stories led to the saying, "Shit happens and then you die."

Fortunately, pain is only in our mind, and meditation or self hypnosis can help. In addition, one can eek out a good life between pain sessions. Pain is not generally fatal, so we can learn to minimize its effects. "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."

Nice to meat you Swanky. You seem to be coping well. I suspect your pain profile is different from mine. I hope you have times without pain as I do.

"As I considered what could possibly be so distracting in her life from meeting my expectations of cordiality..."

Here's a few things just off the top of my head:

1. Introversion.
2. Autism spectrum.
3. Having a bad day/life and in no mood for random strangers.
4. In a hurry to get home and pee.
5. Simply not a people person.
6. Plotting the demise of her cheating lover.
7. Deciding if someone ate the last twinkie again whether it was time to burn down the house.
8. OCD causing her to wonder if she left the stove on.
9. Late for the opening credits of her favorite game show.
10. Anxiously approaching the glorious moment she can finally remove her pinching shoes and bra.

But yeah, the suffering of children in Yemen could have been distracting her too.

People have, will, and are suffering more than I could ever know. Suffering is personal.

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It is even worse than that I fear, as some things are simply not relateable at all unless or until you experience them.
If you are trying to describe sex to a virgin is is a pointless task, only after they have some experience can you have a viable discussion about sex. You can educate and that is all, a true discourse requires both people to have a grasp of the issue and in some cases you cannot get that.

Then there is individuality, diversity of human presentations. Due to that even things people share might not be relateable. Two women give birth for the first time, both suffer more than they anticipated. One birth is hard and the other easy, do they share an experience, yes, the same experience and opinion of that, hell no.

Ethics tempered with Empathy, we might never know how much a thing hurts, but we can tell it does hurt and act on that.