photo: a selfie of me in my car’s visor mirror. i’ve got on lovely pink lipstick :3

My feet tend to hurt when I walk too much.¹ It's not, like, a huge deal in my life, but it does mean that I get tired out a bit sooner than most people I know. I often prefer to take public transportation or bike or even drive distances that my friends mostly travel on foot. And, even though these friends have specifically told me that it simply doesn't hurt them to walk such distances, I can't shake the feeling that I'm being Lazy and Bad for not putting up with the pain like they do.

Which is, you know...dumb. They're not tougher than me, they're not "putting up with pain", they're doing a thing that is not actually painful for them. But it's still so hard to get past.

I'll leave it to the reader to apply this lesson more broadly.

1. This is not an invitation for you to tell me about how to solve this problem