Atrophy

Either this past week I spoke of how my muscles (especially in my legs) were beginning to lose tone, and atrophy. Which in turn has been incredibly painful when I try to use them again.

With my copious amounts of spare time, I began to think a lot of different types of atrophy. When I was in beauty school we learned a lot of atrophy of your nails, and how painful the process is to lose them, but also to grow then back.

I was thinking about how it's not always obvious pain right away to warn you that you are losing something. Sometimes it just hits you one day. I thought I was doing ok with my muscle tone, and then one day I could barely stand on my own from the loss of tone. And the working of it made it more and more painful.

I think that we often don't notice the atrophy in our lives, until we hit the point of incredible pain, where we have to choose to either give up, and succumb to the pain, or work through the terrible pain, to gain our tone back.

This applies to everything in our lives I believe. Physically, emotionally, mentally, and even spiritually.

As I have thought much about atrophy, I have realized the other areas in my life that I have "lost tone" in, the places I have neglected, and let start to die. The choice I have to make is this: regardless of the incredible pain, do I wait until it passes, and then ignore it and let it completely die? Or do I work through the pain, and build it up to be stronger than it was before?

Who knew I could have semi deep thoughts at 3 am? Or really anytime of the day lol?