Extraction Analogy (10)

20.10.08

Posted under: Relationships, Thoughts

Happy Saint Day to Maria Bertilla Boscardin!

This is what happens when you sleep more in an entire weekend than you would during a normal week… even after combining all the days of the week. You come up with weird analogies and have weird dreams. But I’m really here to talk about the former rather than the latter anyway.

So I’m preparing for my braces and whatnot (I know, a little late in life, but better late than never?) and since I have more teeth than my mouth is able to hold, I am forced to extract some teeth (no, this doesn’t include the wisdom teeth I had previously removed). Through all the sleeping and being drugged up this weekend, I realized that this whole process of extraction and the moving of my teeth is a lot like losing someone you love.

Hear me out: You pull out a tooth (or two… or in my case, four) and it hurts like a bitch. It leaves a weird hole in your mouth, a hole that you never had before (minus the ones from your childhood years). And after you’ve gotten the tooth pulled out, it hurts, a lot. It hurts so much that all you want to do is be drugged up for days until the pain subsides or is entirely gone. Even when the pain is gone, you’ve still got that big gap in your mouth. And then the braces start to work. They start pulling the surrounding teeth to fill up the hole. Years later, after the whole process is done, you barely notice that you once had teeth there.

Sound a little familiar? Whether it’s the loss of a friend, a family member, or someone you once loved, you always feel emptier. The pain hurts for days, even for weeks or months and all you want to do (or most people anyway) is erase the pain; make it go away. Eventually, everything else in your life starts to fill in that gap, makes you feel as if you were whole again. Sure, you’ll never be able to replace that hole, or fill it up with something you once had, but with time, you forget that you had lost something so precious to you.

Now, this isn’t typical of every relationship, every friendship, or every bond, but it felt awfully similar. Just be glad I left all the bloody and more painful details out.

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Michael typed:

Monday, October 20, 2008 @ 1:07 pm GMT-8

And it’s similar to money. When it’s gone through taxes, fines, etc., I feel empty. This is worse as it doesn’t get filled for some people. Heh.
Julie wrote:

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 @ 4:38 am GMT-8

I think it’s a very good comparison. Before I had braces I had to have 4 teeth pulled too. It stunk, but since I was a kid I don’t remember much of it. You’re so brave to willingly go through it all now.
Mike declared:

Sunday, October 26, 2008 @ 9:56 am GMT-8

Solution: keep muhfuckas away from your teeth.

Instead, kick ‘em. In the face!
Jessica voiced:

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 12:02 pm GMT-8

Now I’m even more anxious about saving up money to get braces. LOL…I am definitely not good with pain. But people do painful things for beauty.

I hope that you’re feeling better.
Nile expressed:

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 5:18 pm GMT-8

I had my wisdom teeth taken out and found that I should have told the lady to just fill the cavity. Nothing was wrong with it except a small cavity….pissed me off. So instead of 1, she took all 4. Cost me my deductible max of $250 plus. Hurt like hell…15 days on pain meds sucks…I was zonked out…then it was weird as hell having to be careful for a bit while eating.
Aly typed:

Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 11:26 am GMT-8

Ack, sorry to hear about you having to get teeth extracted. I’ve never have it done before, but I’ve been told it hurts like a bitch. I like your analogy though, it’s so very true. It’s just so hard to keep in mind in the beginning that the pain is only temporary!
Richard Catto said:

Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 6:44 pm GMT-8

I think you are wise beyond your years. I love people who are deep thinkers, and that you are!
arielle answered:

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 @ 1:25 am GMT-8

Yup! I definitely agree. Nice analogy!
Michael Aulia expressed:

Monday, December 1, 2008 @ 1:48 am GMT-8

Ugh..and I need 4 of mine (wisdom tooth) pulled out but I was too scared..

Well we at least have a choice whether we want to move on and keep dwelling in your sadness/pain (time itself won’t cure the problem), but with a toothache, we can’t do anything to make it go away (except time) :’(
KarlHall typed:

Saturday, December 20, 2008 @ 2:55 am GMT-8

Exactly. I’m not the only one. Thank goodness.

I was wondering if I was the only one who felt this way; felt the emptyness, swirled my tongue around the holes in my mouth…

These are PERMANENT TEETH for goodness sakes! They’re never going to grow back! Like people who pass on, they’re never going to be there anymore!

And the holes hurt. They hurt, hurt like hell, like people are pulling your entire jaw up. It hurts so bad, and finally someone else is whining about it like I currently am.