The Little Things That Make A Difference.

Do you ever wonder what life would be if certain conveniences like eating without feeling any pains or breathing without an oxygen mask were taken away from you? Do you show gratitude to whoever or whatever you believe in for the very unnoticeable yet very significant perks we enjoy regularly as mortals?

We all go about our daily lives, some with a grateful heart and the others, not so much. Be that as it may, many of us tend to forget the pain that comes with very little inconveniences; inconveniences caused by the things we use every single day and possibly things we need to survive.

Last week taught me to be a notch more grateful about minute things like my teeth and my gums. For a good number of days, I experienced gum edema(swelling of the gums) in about three different places. I would like to point out that I do not have a sweet tooth and my daily oral hygiene is on par with the standard.

Usually, when such a swelling occurs, I gargle my mouth with warm saline water and if I want to take it a note higher, I take warm diluted apple cider vinegar water. And in a few hours, the discomfort is gone.

Last week, I repeated the same ever-familiar procedure and I was relieved for about an hour and proceeding that hour, the pain tripled. Talking felt like hard work and eating seemed like a rare commodity–gold maybe.

In all of this, I kept applying patience because the patient dog eats the fattest bone, yes? Yet the pain kept increasing. My pain slowly turned into irritation and then into fraustratoon. Eventually, I decided to visit a medical consultant who prescribed certain medications for me(the same medications I was trying to avoid from the jump).

A few minutes after taking the medications, I sat down to create a post for Hive and once I finished with the post, the pain had drastically reduced. The pain that made me feel like having a mouth was a taboo had reduced to the barest minimum. One cannot even begin to comprehend the joy I felt.

Throughout the week of pain, the song “Believer” by Imagine dragon was the only song that made sense to me because I could finally relate to the music lyrics–although I didn't dare sing along. The song talks about overcoming pain and finding strength in adversity.

In all candor, finding strength in adversity is one of the hardest things to do because a lot of us tend to just focus on the pain we're feeling which is what I did. This act alone can lead to vulnerability and frailty.

Nevertheless, it always gets better just as long as we do not give up.

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Liebe🤍

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