Just not seeing it. . .

So, here's another thing in the long list of things I don't understand: why is it that people compliment me on the way I deal with my headaches and the whole chronic pain in general thing? Don't get me wrong, it's very nice of them, and I'll take any compliment I can get, but don't they know I'm a big whiner on the inside? I always feel like I'm undeserving when people tell me that I'm tough, or amazing, or inspiring, or actually suffering with grace. Really, I'm just surviving, and if I'm able to laugh about some things in life along the way, that's just because I'd be crying otherwise. And I do enough of that. So, just for all you truly wonderful people out there, I'm pretty sure given the same trials you'd probably rock out. I just hope you never have to test that theory, because it sucks.