Don’t get stuck in your pain. watch their recovery.

Bodies mend without supervision. A split knuckle closes over four days while you think about entirely other things, and you only notice it has gone when you go looking for it.

Something in you is doing that same work right now, underneath the noise, unwitnessed. Pain is loud and repair is silent, which is why one of them feels like the whole story. Check the knuckle sometime. There is generally more mending underway than the day is reporting.