Who is Rabindranath Tagore?

I have recently been switched to a new pain medicine which is called Tramadol. I took it last night to dull a bout of pain I was having so I could go to sleep, but then a few hours later my eyes opened and I was wide awake (12:30-4:30 am). I have been noticing that when I take it (which is as little as possible) there are some odd side effects. So last night while I was fighting insomnia I looked the drug up and checked out its common adverse effects. The side effects that I am experiencing from this drug that have been noted in the clinical abstract are pruritus (itchness), sleep disturbance, and dizziness. 

Does this make me MAD??? You would think that it would right? No sleep while being itchy and dizzy. Turns out another common side effect is excessive euphoria! Coincidence? Accident? I think not! (Just in case you are wondering paranoia is not a common side effect)

Funny thing is I feel pretty lucky. Just a few months ago I had no pain medicine and no idea what was going on with my body. I would spend all night sleeping in the bathtub because the heat was the only thing that soothed the pain. There are still lots of questions to be answered but I know a lot more then I did in April when this all started.

Rabindranath became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Before ECD I used to think that "bad" things happened to me. That it was the dark clouds of misfortune that ruined my day, a lesson at school, or a family outing. Recently though I came across the writings of Rabindranath Tagore a Bengali poet and Nobel Prize winner whose words I have found much solace in. Rabindranath says of those who have lived through the trials of life, "Clouds come floating into our life, no longer to carry rain or usher storms, but to add color to the sunset sky."

When dealing with the trials of life it sure helps to have a little bit of perspective.