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Balsa's self-sacrifice

2 days ago I watched Seirei No Moribito (Protector of the Sacred Spirit) and I was stunned. The bodyguard protagonist Balsa, acted in a very nonchalant way when Tanda told her that by taking up that mission it'd mean she'd have to be the mother of the prince for life, as everyone was after his life. Not even giving it deep thought, she replied "I guess so". Her self-sacrificial nature earns my respect. For normal women it'd take deep thought to EVEN consider adopting someone else's son.
ANW my prolapsed disc is getting betta praise God. I still can feel it protruding but i think it's being pushed in and supported more and more by my stronger back core muscles. This illness has changed my perspective on pain. Having a debilitating disease which will follow me to the last days of my life, once accompanied by agony at every waking hr, has changed my perception of pain. Not every kind, but the aches that come after a prolonged physical exertion. Because it's a reminder that I'm recovering. That I can gradually do the same stuff I used to be able to do. And I know Lance Armstrong feels the same way. Before cancer, he already enjoyed taking his body to its limits. After remission, it became his obsession. That's because it reminds him of his recovery.

11:37 p.m. - 2007-05-31

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