On Migraines

Acceptance - Compassion

On Migraines

Who would I be without my migraines, without bouts of intense helpless pain that began before I could tell people what was going on? I empathize with end of life decisions, because I have experienced a state in which death would be a mercy. I glimpse the anguish of a bombed child or a burn victim. I understand hell, viscerally. Would I be as compassionate as I am? Would I have chosen to be a healer? Would I still believe in the self-indulgent absurdity of a perfect loving god who slotted most of humanity for unending torture?

Author: ValerieT
Contributor: ValerieT
Universal Ethics
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"Intense helpless pain" here and now. And yet, we ascribe hell to a murky future where those who failed the test are sent to suffer forever? For me, it was my true, broken condition leading to a life of "intense" selfish indulgence, bringing intense pain to others. When the light dawned, it broke my heart, but it also left me permanently aware of a human species struggling to survive their lot, their culture, their tragedies. Hardly the clear-cut, manifest realities of fundamentalism where those who believe and adhere are saved by virtue of "rightness." I will always be weak. For that, I am thankful in a way no doctrinal adherent could ever understand.

Gorgewriter
8 months ago
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Migraines. Incredibly intense pain that most people think is "just a headache." Fortunately, mine are only once or twice a year now. Before moving to the northwest, I was down on average 2 days a week.

RichEnough
over 4 years ago
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