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Morphine or Surgery?
Morphine or Surgery?
Morphine can mask the pain.
You have pain – but this helps to keep it down, not fix it. You can continue to push forward with your daily life, continue to keep yourself at the level you are at. You can’t do much more, because that would create more pain and require more morphine. But you could survive. You could get by. Eventually, however, your body will be used to that level of morphine and the pain will start to hurt again. The logical answer is to just take more morphine. But how long till morphine doesn’t work anymore? How much pain are you willing to be in?
Surgery is riskier.
It hurts more, it is more invasive and carries more risk of pain in other places. It is scary to go into surgery, what if it doesn’t work? What if I go through all that pain and it isn’t worth it? Sure, the surgery could permanently fix the ailment that I am having, I could get my freedom back, and live a more balanced life, but it is scary to try.
This is life as most people live. We all have some sort of baggage, some sort of pain that we walk around with on a daily basis. And most of us just do what we need to do to get by. We’re trapped thinking that there is something out there, outside of changing ourselves, that will cure us. We take the morphine. We take the 9-5 “safe” job that we hate. We stay in a complacent relationship that isn’t serving us. We carry around a few extra pounds because it’s comfortable. We come home and get disengage with our loved ones with our nose down in what the latest Kardashian tweeted about her snapchat on Facebook during her reality TV show because we want to disconnect from the world while connecting to artificial reality. We argue with loved ones, ignore our children, and lose sight of anything that remote resembles goals towards success because everyone else does it. That is just the world. That is our morphine. Our morphine masks the things deep inside of us that need curing by putting more “stuff” into our life. We feel good – not because we fixed the issues – but because the morphine is masking the pain.
And we push on. We push down the path of life. The morphine doesn’t work as strong for us as it uses to because we developed a tolerance for it and the pain slowly creeps back in. We become desensitization to the things that mask our pain. So what do we do? We take more of it. We increase the dose.
We take a higher level of our job. We take a bigger house. We take more expensive cars. We take on getting fake tits and mistresses. We take more technology so we can have more Kardashian tweets. We take more issues and arguments with our loved ones, more ignoring our kids, and we push our true dreams back even farther away from us because everyone else does it. And we keep the cycle going. More pain, more morphine…
We all know the surgery option. It’s the option permanently issues the fix. You don’t need the morphine anymore. You are free from the pain. We all have seen people do the surgery and have great success with it. The surgery is complex. The surgery is taking a good look at yourself, the things around you, the pain that is in your life and, instead of masking it with morphine, you have it permanently fixed through the surgery. The surgery consists of making the tough decisions on your life to get your further, to live your dreams, to have that success that you have always wanted, to be the person you know you can be, to have it all. But it is risky. What if the pain comes back? What if you quit the job and branch out on your own, only to not make any money. What if you decide that the person you married isn’t the person you love, and go another route, only to be alone and struggling. What if you set goals and dreams toward success, and you may not actually get them – and then what will people think of you for trying? Will the surgery be for nothing?
But the surgery does work. It is not an immediate fix – the recovery takes a long time, and the results vary from person to person. Rehab from the surgery could be very hard – painful at times. You will seem out of place, not your self, ostracized from society. More pain than when you were on the morphine. And the work you have to put in during recover is the most work you will ever do. But eventually the pain will subside, and a stronger you will come out on the other side. You may even have to go in for another surgery to clear out leftover scar tissue. But if you are truly dedicated to getting off the morphine and fixing the pain in your life, you know you will go through as many surgeries as it takes. Until you can look at yourself post-op and smile – because you can honestly say that you are no longer in pain. You are off the morphine. You are living the life you dreamed about.
Morphine is the easy route. Surgery is the hard route. The choice is up to you. Are you choosing morphine or surgery?
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