To My Nemesis
Dear Migraine,
I wish I could ask you how you are doing but by your recent actions, I must say you have been quite busy, productive, and might I add, happy indeed. You have been an acquaintance now for more than two decades, dare I say, you may have even become a pestering friend. In these two decades, I have lost many friends and gained some new ones; I'm grateful for many people I know have died and new souls came to earth. But amidst all of this, dear migraine, you stuck by my side like a blithering pain in my behind - oh, sorry, you reside in my head.
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I'm not grateful for your existence at all - sadly, I'd much rather pray for your elimination. Now now, don't get sad, we both know that won't happen any time soon. As much as it pains me to say, I don't seem to be rid of you any sooner, even though I would prefer it. If you weren't such a pain, I'd have admired your dedication towards me - a dedication even a living breathing human has failed to show; I salute you. For all these years, you have made me feel miserable and suffer more than I can bear but whenever I thought "this is the worst" you have proven me wrong and shown me a new height of pain. I wish I could call you a villain but even an enemy gives up - you never gave up. I applaud your tenacity. I'd say you hate me with all you have, but this is your nature; perhaps it's not how you hate but care.
Finally, I figured out what you are - Dear Migraine, you're an annoying relative. As a relative, you come and go as you like. "Make yourself at home" is supposedly a kind gesture but you take it so literally that often I feel as if my head isn't even my own - it is my head that you reside in and you don't even ask. And then you go away for some time and I feel relieved but again you arrive unexpectedly. The numerous times I have explained to you that I don't look forward to your visit, you don't seem to care. I hate you very much but can't cut you off because you have clung to me like a parasite. Now you have become a part of my life, suffocatingly so, I think I'd miss you if you decide to leave permanently. I would try to recall my worst experience with you but there have been so many that I have lost count.
Who am I kidding - I wouldn't miss your sorry ass if you leave. Do you have any idea how much I have suffered? Of course, you do; you reveled in my suffering, I remember that. My pain is your existence. I admit I do enjoy the days when I am not reminded of your presence. When I was a kid, my mother used to say, rather sarcastically "Just chop your head off. No head, no headache." No, my mother isn't cruel, she is sassy - but that's not the point. At times, I was tempted to do just that, but I didn't - I'd die and I simply haven't lived long enough. So, I will bear you as my burden and just like you feel joy whenever you slither in my head, I'll rejoice in the days when you can't slip in.
Our relationship is strange indeed.
Yours unfaithfully,
The Host.
Well, @drivingindevon, @sarashew, and @zayedsakib you wanted a post regarding migraine, I have given you one. Now do it as you please. Oh, why don't you do it as well? Hmm?
Damn XDD You truly wrote this.. huh XDD Well, at least that was a fun and relatable read XD
I didn't expect you to declare your profound toxic love and hatred towards this bitch XDD But in the end, I guess we are bound with it till death do us apart. XD The only marriage vow we will ever take in this lifetime XDD
About the Chop off head well, these days that childhood sassy remarks of my (in my case, it's the father), getting more and more tempting. :3
yes yes I wrote about the bitch... about the marriage vow, I don't think I have taken vows with this bitch. Have you? It's more like our captor and we're facing a deranged form of Stockholm Syndrome. I wish "enemy of my enemy is a friend" would work here too, but sadly I know that it won't. It will make our lives insufferable as it did so before and then some. Just hope that it doesn't get more excruciating. Who am I kidding? This bitch never listens. All I can do is wish you good luck and wish myself good luck. Let's wait for the next attack.
To be honest, sometimes I think it will be the gateway of my death. Your post is making me itchy to write about my experiences XD but I know, if I sit down to write about it, some nasty weakness will come out to the surface.
This hands down feels like a marriage vow to me, a toxic one. Luck is helpless here as our fate is sealed the moment this bitch decided to enter into our head.
Write... make your pain laughable... that's the best way I think. If we don't laugh at our own miseries, we'll be twice as miserable thinking about it. Better laugh it off later on.
And what doesn't kill you makes you stronger(and makes me angry)
Migraine be like, "Emotional kar diya, I love you too."
There IZZ no love brother... there's only pain 🤕
I have heard people suffering from this but haven't experienced it, on seeing you I don't even wish to experience it by any chance. May Allah save me 😑
For a second, one would think migraine was a real positive. This was badass creative.
No head, no headaches 😅🤣. It hit me there
Well if migraine was a person, it'd feel appreciated I suppose 🤣🤣 that is my mom's go to slogan even now
thank you so much ❤
Man! This letter beat your previous two (birthday letter for Sam and Sara). The way you poured out your emotions to this unbearable pain, people hardly do that for their lovers :v
Btw, you're coming Dhaka in this puja, right?
I'm trying but my colleague has went on a maternity leave... I still told my boss that I'll be going, so let's see
You know people can describe pain more accurately than joy or peace... sometimes a positive feeling is very hard to digest... for example, happy tears... why do people cry when they're happy right? But you ask someone how does any body ache feels like or how sad or angry they're, they can paint a very vivid picture quickly
You are coming this time! No matter what..
Oh yeah, that's right! But you know what, whenever I try to write something about my pain, it feels like I am drowning in those sufferings even more. So when I'm in any kind of this situation I tried to keep them within myself as long as I can. I know it's a bad practice, but can't help myself.
I never thought a story could be made about someone's migraines. But you made it possible beautifully. That's why, you are my favorite author.
Migraine pain is excruciating. The most painful is the pain on one side of the head. I heard about it from a few people who couldn't verbalize their pain. It creates a condition that cannot be cured by medicine. It remains in humans for a long time.
I hope you get out of this pain soon.❤️
Migraine sort of feel like an earthquake but not completely... it's just so discomforting... it starts slowly and then magnifies... radiates into different parts of your head... the pain feels like it's moving and it vibrates too in low rhythm... horrible... I have been suffering for almost 20 years
Halfway through the post I was imagining you against a cloud of some sorts standing with a stick(which would be the migraine in its much true and real form)
Ready to go up in battle, a few flying kicks from you and a few whacks from the migraine cloud, back and forth for a few seconds, but sadly that fight and scene ended a bit too quick. Guess we'll have to wait for post number two, the title being Fia VS Migraine Returns.
Yes me scolding a cloud is about as funny as this post. I can tell you all the times it made me miserable and completely put me off my track. It still does. This pain will stay with me in the future too I believe. So all I can do is scold at it - better, laugh at it. And I'll say to my frenemy...
Go for a little checkup, if one checkup and doc can't help then try another, don't leave it hanging. I don't know how a migraine really feels, but I know how annoying it can be, my wife used to suffer from it, lot of my friends too, and I'm talking about the serious kind. I don't know the remedy, but I surely hope you find one ASAP. 🙏
This is a brilliant definition/analysis of this bloodsucking sickness. It's friendship is actually from the deepest part of hell and most times it renders me useless, unable to lift my poor head causing me to lay still in bed. Light becomes a problem and at that moment all I want is total darkness until it decides to leave. The torture is hell in itself.
Lovely words BTW 🥰
Ohhh I know that feeling. Looking at light hurts, even shifting your head hurts too. And the pain crawls from one side to the other and keeps changing places. The whole day goes terribly. I often don't get to take sick leave and do my work while suffering. And by evening, I'm exhausted mostly because of migraine
😩😩
What the hell!! XDD
It started out like a love letter and ended in spite!!
You area visionary woman!! I loved it!!
Man if I could kill off my migraine... I'd have died a happy man! They are like mistresses! Won't leave you alone! Will take all of what you have and then leave you dry and high. Then come back again when things are better, only to ruin you -,-
Wow! that is some letter. That was some read. Reminded me of a lot of things. If I am being honest then I actually don't have migraine pains. But then again, we all have people in our lives who are no less than a migraine. So many love hate relationships here and there. staying in touch with people forcefully, instead of willingly.
Your letter is so precise and so many different levels. So precise that even someone who doesn't has a migraine could relate to what you feel.
Maybe, you should write more letters you know 😅? It's a lost art, these letters. And the words will live on.
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