Layers of Torment
Someone said, “chronic pain is psychological torment.” Truer words were never written; the layers upon layers are like a beast eating away at itself until its end. Isn’t the body a mere shell, to keep your mind and soul? Isn’t pain a mere discomfort tarnishing the body–independent, detached, and trivial? Torment is reserved for inward troubles. To be tormented by pain of the body is to be a baby, crying to its mother. Whether these…