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Aches and pains can lead to pills and creams.

Our bodies tell us they’re in need of help to heal from the pains of daily labor.

Whether you work construction; wait tables; scan groceries, or do any other job, you know the pains of a day spent working hard.

These jobs provide the green needed to buy things so our lives can continue.

A wage is traded for aches and pains and conversations with people we may or may not like but these are the things we must do.

On our days off, we scramble to get our to-do list completed. Then we start all over again because that is the cycle of adulting.

— Nicole Barden 6/4/2021

Originally published in The Shortform on Medium