what pain made me embrace

4 moons or so ago, one of my legs started aching so much I could barely walk or sit. I could walk, slowly, with excruciating pain. Later after MRI I learned I have a disc bulge - one of my discs pressing sciatica nerve, causing huge amounts of pain all the way from lower back to the tip of my toes. I'm now slowly getting better and what exactly led to this is a story for another time. This post is about pain and lessons within. What I learned from basically having to pause my life, all my hobbies, being in pain every day single day, not knowing why, if I was bout to paralyze or wat the fuk is going on???? What happens when pre much everything (you think) makes you you, is taken away? And at the same time you are experiencing way more pain than ever before, for days and days straight? You're forced to... just be. Endure. Live life one second at a time. And then, in your new reality, you start seeing things from another perspective. I learned that there are 2 dimensions to life: this…