The Gift
Reframe your perceptions
Naturally, we shirk pain
we avoid it ignore it numb it
in booze-pills-sex-shopping
addiction/compulsion/need
here’s a thought: hold it close
take your pain and squeeze
it into something hard and shiny
stuff it into your deepest pocket
but never forget it’s there waiting
not to maim you not to ruin the day
think of pain as gift at your disposal
you’re alive! you get to feel! you are
never beholden to that which hurts
own this gift — it is a catalyst to change.
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©DEF, 2020
D. E. Fulford is a full-time university writing instructor and part-time educational editor. Her Medium writing focuses (mostly) on love, overcoming adversity, pain, and giving anti-advice about writing. She is the editor of Get Inside, a publication seeking new writers presenting a first person perspective on, well, most anything. If you’d like to read more, please visit and follow her blog. Thank you for reading!
