Pain

If I were asked to describe the entire feeling of pain with one word,

I'd go with the word 'empty'

Because really that's what pain feels like, it feels like an empty vacuum void in your chest sucking at every and any possibility at being happy.

Truthfully, pain sucks.

It can knock you right off your shoes

Or leave you feeling like you can't even feel your shoes

Like it's all a dream, or a figment of your imagination

The latter leans close to being Numb, but leans away too.

Pain could make you punch the wall

Or crawl into a ball bawling your eyes out

Pain could make you confide in alcohol

Or become that one friend who never seems to shut up

Pain could make you creative, typing on your forgotten and abandoned blog

Or it could leave you feeling dejected, confused about reality.

Pain could lock your thoughts up

Or it could release a wilder side of you, an unapologetic you.

All these would be correct, accurately because every human is unique and every body feels pain differently.

Your inability to shed tears in a painful moment does not reduce you from being normal

Your inability to shut up about everything bad that's been happening to you does not make you abnormal—EXCESSIVELY ANNOYING? Yes. But abnormal? No.

So take pride in your pain.

Own it...

Because if you don't.

It'd own you.

And we don't want that.

Do we?