Small Things Still Hurt After a Big Thing

Be it cancer, heartbreak, or a hurricane.

Yes, like this. Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash

You hear the people who tell stories of how they went through something big and bad and therefore littler things don’t bother them anymore. Like when I overheard a woman in the restroom regaling a brutal experience and she qualified by saying, “I was all, ‘I can handle it — I have an IUD.’” Basically she’s saying that after…