Suffering

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Everyone knows that living with advancing age’s joint and bone aches would be routine; it is an expectation after all.  Mikey groans daily now from his bodily aches.  I could not help groan inwardly myself with, and for him, even if I were not in pain. When pain lives permanently in someone’s body at a much younger age, it is truly different.  It is the case with Mikey who is only in his mid-fifties.  For a long while before now, at a young age of nine, he lived with legitimate pain caused by back fractures, and jaw/mouth surgeries from a car accident; he recently, in addition, has had two lumbar surgeries.  He is waiting for yet, a third procedure that promises to strengthen and hold his back together.   I have my own nagging body aches from daily exertions.  I don’t think though that I have any rights complaining about them; when others like Mikey justifiably hurts from medically documented worn-out muscles and bones, my aches are comparatively miniscule and