Saturday, December 02, 2006

A pain in the neck


I woke up this morning with 1/5 of the normal range of motion left on my neck. I turn my entire body around just so i can see beyond 45 degrees angles on both sides. I have pulled something in my neck. Now it is awekward and painful no matter what position it is in. I'm very close to reaching out and pop some pain killer. But then, i don't think i should, cause if i'm not feeling the pain, i might be less careful and pull it even worse. Afterall, feeling "pain" is self-protecting mechanism enbeded in the body. So i just have to suck it up and try to get over it in the next couple of days.
The semester is coming to an end, so is my drive for schoolwork, assuming i ever had some at one point or another. I thought alot about relatives, it really reminds me about the situation about the neck. Relatives can be such a pain in the neck. other times, they are essential to you life, like your neck, without it, you are useless. Only if "relative troubles" can be healed as fast as neck pain. In a couple of days, i will be able to turn my head again. But relative trouble are just there always, year after year. I read something on a friend's blog one time that i can really relate to just about now.

Relatives

"Sometimes, I really feel like people who are related by blood may not be as close as friends who is not related at all. People are friends or friendly with each other because there is a common ground. For the relatives, these people were given the common ground ever since they were born. Instead of using this common ground, people would go out of their ways to find a common ground with someone that they don't even know. People needed to be connected with others naturally. Even the loneliest painter who always works in his studio wants to have someone who can understand his art. Instead of using this born-given common ground, some people decided to reject it. Some people wanted to be the lone wolf, but he or she can never leave the humanity. He or she needed to be connected with other people in order to stay alive. I really don't understand this type of person. Some advantages were given to you, but you just don't want to use it at all. Even we are related by blood, I don't feel like I know the person at all. I have cousins that I don't even know where he or she lives? What are they doing? How old are they now? What has been happening with them? This just doesn't really make sense. I don't know anything about this relatives without even getting into conflicts or fights with them. It's not like something bad happened and we hate each other, or our parents hate each other. It's just natural ignorance. People take too many things for granted. One of my friends always says "Food on other people's plate always seems better." Instead of eating her own food, she has to fight with another person to get someone else's food. This just doesn't make sense at all. Instead of using what you have already, you would fight, work, and put in a lot of effort for something that's the same as what you have, or even worse. This is a type of human nature. It is so sad that this is happening to us."

- Jane Huang August 06 10:46 PM


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