I am here, too.

[Parsons]

I think many people with chronic pain chose this in a pre-incarnative sense, and it seems pretty hard to escape(if not impossible in some cases) once you are in the midst of it.

I have asked myself, why did I choose to shatter my femur and commit myself to a lifetime of pain? I know it reset a life that was wildly off track, and allowed me time of seclusion in which I awoke.