A Dog’s Life

A couple of weeks ago I injured my back and I was in a lot of pain all the time, but the one activity that caused me the most pain was getting up off the couch. It felt better to lay flat on the couch and rest my back, but getting up off the couch was an ordeal that often took a couple of minutes and triggered shooting pains that would make me groan in agony.

Today, for the first time since the injury, I am able to get up off the couch without triggering the shooting pains. I’m able to move around more or less naturally and it is such a relief that it moved me to make this post.

I feel like I’ve passed a milestone.

Damn.

Richard Random Thoughts

I’ve always felt like I was an introspective person. I’ve always felt like I lived the examined life.

But sometimes it seems that it’s all a fool’s game and I’m the fool.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the engineer of a train. I can make the train speed up or slow down, but I actually have no control at all over where it’s going. Other times I feel exactly the opposite.

Go figure.

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