Rejection
Feeling bad is the way the body rejects you.
It does so in order to lift you into higher realms, whether you choose to be lifted or not.
Medicine often does more harm than good, and the good that it does is bad for you.
Sometimes just carrying a head around on one's shoulders is more than enough.
To know others have felt the same is a little solace.
Particularly cheering are the rejection letter from publisher Arthur Fifield to Gerturde Stein, April 19, 1912 and the syllabus of the course conducted by the writer Willian Gaddis at Bard College that he choose to call "The Literature of Failure."