600mg of ibuprofen does wonders for those annoying pains that are persistent little buggers.

But where do you find the medicine for the pain that cuts you so deep that it feels like death swung a scythe to your heart?

Where do you start in a losing battle? How do you plan to win games of unfair rules and disadvantages?

Where is the salve for the burn?

There is none.

And life is really good at delivering bitch-slaps to the face.

As with everything, you have to fight your own battles, find impossible strength when you have none left, and keep yourself together.

Because if you don't protect and take care of yourself, no one else can.