a thought on chronic pain

[plaidclad]

"The fact of the pain was the burden. This fact was like an unwieldy piece of luggage that I had to drag around. When I went out to dinner, or took a walk, or got into bed, I had to slog the luggage along with me. The pain itself was not that bad. What was bad was the idea that I was stuck with it. There was no checking it, or storing it in the overhead bin, no unpacking it and putting it in the closet, and that was what sapped my energy."
- Susanna Kaysen, The Camera my Mother Gave Me