RULE TO BREAK
You can’t be cheerful if you’re in pain
Pain grinds you down, makes you grumpy, frustrates you, limits you, and makes you feel hard done by. It’s impossible to enjoy life.
Or is it? There obviously must be a level of pain where that’s so, but for most people it’s perfectly possible to be cheerful regardless. Whether you have a headache, a stinking cold, arthritis, toothache, a broken wrist or a slipped disc, you don’t have to be miserable as well.
I had a very enlightening conversation with a friend who has chronic arthritis. I asked her one day, ‘Does it hurt all the time?’ And she replied, ‘Oh, it doesn’t hurt! It just aches, that’s all’. Now most people would consider constant aching to be pain. But she has chosen to redefine ...
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