Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

Yes, and honestly probably the deepest line in the film (though plenty others are often quoted in my family).

I think there is a lot of strength that comes from waking up and doing the “hard” thing, whatever that is. I’ve had injuries, unexplained health issues, mental health issues, high stress, etc. I have found that for me, at least, refusal to let these things break me and meeting them head-on has been a positive overall for my quality of life.

To abstract it away some, I grew up hearing a lot of family members say things like, “I can’t do X anymore because of Y.” I just refuse to allow any of those damn Ys to kill off my beloved Xs, as far as I am able, despite whatever temporary pain or difficulty it may require me to go through. Sometimes telling the Ys to shut the hell up makes them go away completely. And when it doesn’t, sometimes I just have to be okay “embracing the suck” in order to prevent the Ys from bossing me around.