Pain Distraction

Sometimes I wish I was like Lane. She's a character, so it's a bit of wish fulfillment either way, but I really want to be in her shoes now and then. Not that her life is perfect, but she is so good at pain. She thinks it's because of how her body is built - tough and lean and strong, whether she works at it or not. But really, it's her mind. If something hurts, she accepts it and compartmentalizes it. Pain is something to be fixed or ignored. It's simple, no matter how strong it is, no matter what type of pain it is. Fix it, and if you can't, ignore it. Pain is just a signal, a warning that something is wrong. It's a flashing yellow light that you can look away from, and sometimes flashing red that you can't, but it isn't everything in the world. It isn't a topic of conversation or a reason to avoid doing things. It's just pain, a simple derivative of being human. It's scraped knees and monthly cramps and lifting too heavy. It's that knife in your back that you can't get away from, so you squirm and you cry and take painkillers and look at something else, anything else but that flashing yellow light that is so damn annoying you want to scream. But you're not going to die, you idiot, so chill the hell out.


Ow.