重口味

Amy always described me as a person with 重口味, or extreme tastes. Other than the fact that I am usually quite adventurous with food, experimental as well, she finds I seem to attract weird people in my life. These weird people also seem to have their own extreme tastes or borderline perversions, some of which I probably have mentioned before. 

Anyway, this is about the strange joy I find in inflicting pain on myself. I not talking about suicidal slashing or depressive burning on my arms and legs. Noooooo. I'm referring to relieving muscle aches by inflicting more pain onto the area that is already sore. I'm not sure if this would qualify me as a sadomasochist, and definitely not a physiotherapist. 

As the dictionary puts it, a masochist is a person who finds pleasure suffering physical pain (among other things). While a sadist is one who finds pleasure in inflicting pain. I can't seem to find any definition of sadomasochist - probably because it is two opposite personalities that shouldn't fester in one person? To also clear things up, there's nothing about the pleasure here being in the sexual context. I'd say it's more of the release of adrenalin and endorphins kind of pleasure. 

I honestly do enjoy rubbing in more pain to already sore muscles, or stepping on stones when I have rather sore feet. Wouldn't the latter count as foot reflexology? However, I do add more pressure to the pain, like my own version of super focused deep tissue massage, and sometimes shout (in shock and joy) at getting the bubble of pressure to pop. My mom says I torture myself, and I would agree, but she doesn't seem to mind being an accomplice to this madness. 

Maybe this is why I don't really enjoy getting massages at the spas in Singapore. No one really has enough strength to get the knots under all my thick skin and fat layers. Don't know about a Thai massage though, it looks good.