Read This: Painkillers Are Good

Hi there.

Work and life are trying to crunch my bones like so many giants' teeth.  So I am just popping in to let you know that your reading assignment is this:

Painkillers Are Good, by our very own Comtesse, Personal Failure.  Truly, it's important that this piece is read.  It's important it gets out there.  Read it.  Think about it.  Share it.

This is the ur post, people. The post of all posts. Perhaps not to you, but certainly to me. 

I could find, right now, literally millions of posts and comments about how bad pinkillers are, about how they ruin people’s lives, kill people and should never be used, ever. That’s the perception of medications like Vicodin and Percoset and Oxycontin. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. 

That’s not the whole story. Not by a long shot. 

Painkillers are good.

I'd love it if you'd go read PF's post, and while you read it, I'd like you to think about the things in your own life that people make assumptions about.  While you read, I'd request that you think about the things that are crucial to your wellbeing, and think about whether you have the privilege of people being for the most part informed about those things.  Or are they ignorant about them?   I'd love for you to read the post and consider that most things have more than one side (does anything have one?), and that very often, one of those sides tends to get squished into a dark, cramped corner.

I'd love for you to read, and I'd love for you to share.