 Personally, I think that chronic pain is really dumb. Hear me out, here's why. We know that pain in our body serves basically as a warning system. If something hurts, ah, something might be going on, something's wrong, we should pay attention to it, but when you develop chronic pain, you have a warning system that is constantly blaring as siren. There are red flashing lights all of the time and yet nothing is actually wrong. Not indicating some kind of danger, it's just on all of the time and I think that's one of the reasons why it is so exhausting to live in chronic pain because you're having to shut that warning system off and try to focus on the task in front of you while it is loudly blaring in the background at all times. Stop yelling at me when everything is okay.