Now that I've said that, it's a bummer that I have to follow it up with my catalogue of pain. I know it's hard to read this if you're following this blog on a daily basis, but the whole point of this exercise is to show that chronic pain never lets up.

Life is hard enough so we turn our backs on the unhappy endings because we don't want to feel worse than we already are. I think that is why we don't want to believe that someone we know or love may not get better. We hope that with the right pill or surgery everything will be back to normal and we can go back to our normal life.
Living by that standard is to live without true compassion. Without suffering we would never truly understand how important that happy ending really is. For whatever reason, be it fate, bad luck, God's will, or Devil's curse some people suffer tremendous hardships while others have lives that are far less complicated. Notice that I said, "far less complicated." No one lives an easy life. No one is free of disappointments or stresses. The truth remains that some have to deal with a lot more problems than others and instead of turning our backs and hoping they have a happy ending we need to face reality head on, remember what our own suffering feels like, and have empathy for our fellow human beings.
None of us knows when the clock will toll and our own time for great hardship will come. Rest assured when that time comes, we'll want the same compassion that in the past we neglected to give.
These are the reasons why I write. We need to face the reality that sometimes there are no happy endings and instead of turning our backs and thinking that our friend or family member with chronic pain will eventually get better, we should instead do what we can to understand their condition and do what we can to comfort them. Instead of avoiding them until they get better we should be visiting them now. Instead of telling them what we think they should do to feel better we should realize that they are already seeking every avenue they can to find relief and what they really need is encouragement to never give up.
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