A Recurring Assignment

Pain is a recurring assignment I will never get myself to familiarize with.

No matter the time, the intensity, or the quantity.

And maybe right now, I’m carrying a couple of them: unidentified, unsolved, and overdue.

Even so, there are a few things I’m slowly getting familiar with as each of them comes:

patience, forgiveness, empathy, and resilience.

I’m afraid I’m still far from practicing them well, from making them feel like the back of my hand.

But I’m getting familiar. Somehow, at the end of the day, I manage to find a way to reach them.

And I hope I always will.