Pain

Pain is such a tedious pain.

No really. For the past 6 years I’ve been struggling with Chronic Pain and its exhausting. It steals away satisfaction and motivation. It saps your energy so you can’t get much done, and after you do get something done you feel the overwhelming need for a nap.

I didn’t realize this before I had to deal with it myself. Chronic pain was always this vaugely painful idea, anchored in acute pain experiences where pain just becomes an overwhelming reality. Chronic pain can be overwhelming at times, but more often than not its a more subtle drain. You think you can ignore it until you’ve burned out all your energy doing simple chores.

So if you have friends or coworkers with chronic pain, sure, feel sympathy, but also, let them nap.