Perfection Inc

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The normal level of daily pain for an able-bodied person is ZERO, without needing to take pain medication, not even off-the-counter meds.

Not a little, definitely not enough to be "distracting but tolerable" with or without Tylenol. ZERO. (I'm shocked too every time I remember that the norm is to live pain free unless something happened to you, I know.)

Pain is pain. Chances are that the sorts of pain you're used to would have someone who's not used to it losing their mind if they did a body swap with you. I live with awful joint pain and when I flare up I also get horrible muscle pain and I can bear those as stoic as ever, but if I experience just a bit of stomach pain I fucking DIE because I'm not used to that, so give yourself some credit for the kind of pain you're able to tolerate.

Yes, even mild pain counts. Fun fact; pain that is mild but sustained through a long time is EXTREMELY damaging. It over-stresses the body, interferes with your ability to get decent sleep (which then causes fatigue and MORE PAIN), if there's any healing your body needs to do it interferes with that too, but since the pain isn't tremendous the people suffering it usually shrug it off instead of just taking some meds so they keep worsening their health little by little through time while insisting that their pain isn't "that bad" so it shouldn't be a big deal. IT IS.

Untreated long-term pain can unleash a cycle of autonomic dysfunction because when the body is in pain and/or fatigued it increases levels of adrenaline (your body's own caffeine) to artificially boost your energy levels and to make you not feel your pain as much. Problem is that being high on adrenaline exacerbates your stress response to EVERYTHING down to causing disproportionate panic reactions because adrenaline sets you in fight or flight mode, and it causes insomnia, which then due to the terrible quality and/or lack of sleep causes more fatigue, which then again causes adrenaline to increase...

An accurate representation of hell.

How George Floyd, a good innocent black man went to the store to buy things who then was murdered by a police officer for suspected forgery.

Then the next day Peter Manfredonia, a white armed serial killer who was on the run across 4 states, was caught and arrested peacefully.

And how black and black ally protesters in Minneapolis protesting for the arrest of the officers who killed George Floyd, were attacked by the police. They were peaceful.

But a few weeks ago, white people stormed governments buildings in Michigan protesting the quarantine because they wanted a haircut and the police did nothing to them. They were armed.

The problem is clear as water. WHITE PRIVILEGE AND RACISM. It exists and is real. Deny it? You’re the problem. Don’t say or do anything about it? You’re the problem. Abuse your white privilege? You’re the problem. Don’t see a problem with all this? YOURE THE PROBLEM.

TARON EGERTON

My heart! My heart can’t take it! It’s Taron Egerton with a child in his arms! TARON EGERTON’S BIG DAD ENERGY AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES 2020