Pain. Rather mental or physical, no one is a fan of it. But pain seems to lure people. Pain can become addicting. It can be used to relieve stress. Or at least that's what people thought. What I thought. What you might've thought. What some people said. But it was all a lie, an illusion. All pain does is trick you. It feels good for a while. But then it feels too good. It becomes something you need. An addiction. It can leave marks. Multiple different kinds of marks. Cuts, burns, blisters, pinch marks. Or it can be eyebags, hang nails, bruises. But those are just physical marks. It leaves mental marks, as well. It can be dizziness. Or migraines. Or stomach pains and numbness. It can be overthrowing, as well. What pain does is lure you. Trap you in a cage that feels like you can never get out, even though the door is wide open.
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It's like a fly in your house. You open your bedroom window, showing the fly that it can leave. But, instead, it keeps flying around or running into the closed side of the window. Like it doesn't want to escape. It's been tricked by the warmth and comfort of your room, wanting to stay there forever. Unaware that you're going to swat it, smashing it, killing it. It's been blinded by the safe place it thinks it's found that it doesn't realize how dangerous and scary this "safe" place really is. So it stays. Eventually, that window will close, and then the fly will become aware. It will try to escape, to find that the window is no longer open. It goes frantic for a while, not sure how to get out of this nightmare. It starts to accept that it's stuck, that it can never escape. Until it finds another window in the ceiling. The crack in this opened window seems so small that not even the fly can get through. But still, it tries. It keeps running into the window,desperately trying to get through this small opening, losing and re gaining hope the whole time. Sometimes becoming so hopeless that it flys away and once again gets stuck flying around the room, feeling trapped once again. But eventually, the fly finds a way to squeeze through, finally escaping the dark cage. There is ALWAYS a way.
