I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.