I dealt with starvation and cold along with pain.Faced death.Felt it beneath me giving up as improvished sack became nobody in agony.More importantly I wanted answers and see the end of story.Idk about others but always been stubborn.

I think pain is a strong revealer .Like a litmus paper in chemistry, you see the true color of people around you and life in general.Its also a strong breaker.

With being said I believe there is nothing to be praised about pain. Neither it is necessary to learn.Also it's bottomless pit, doesn't give anyone suffered hard rank in life.In fact it's quite opposite most people hates someone suffering.

However if you can get out (hope you ll get out ) from that situation, you won't give a f about anything anymore, enjoy painfree moments to the fullest.

Also I am no master of it but there are practices for conciousness detaching from the pain. If I could do it a bit as a plank hates even the word of meditate ( reminds me mental freaks in yoga pants) guess you can do way better than me.