Burdensome Me

The worst part about living with chronic illness is not that you feel like a burden. It’s that you are one.

Not being able to physically do the things that adults are expected to be able to do, combined with accommodations needing to be made for symptoms often leaves you feeling like you are nothing more than a burden.

Should you break down and allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to admit that you are not in fact fine and that you feel this way…. Like a burden….Those closest to you will ensure you that you are not. They’ll tell you all of the reasons that they love you and how they are glad you are in their lives but then…..

When they believe that you are in fact fine and forget about how hard you struggle everyday just being alive….. They complain about all of the reasons that you feel like a burden to begin with. They’re too cold….They don’t want to leave so late or so early for that outing…..They want to eat at that place that only serves food you can’t eat …

And once again all you can see is how you are nothing but in the way and you absolutely are a burden.