> Jackie Chan once said in an interview (on TFI Friday, with Chris Evans, if I remember correctly), that after years of harsh physical endeavour and stunt work, he is in almost constant pain.
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> Recently, over the past couple of months, I've been feeling the same way - every day I suffer from the odd little twinge here and there and once they've passed, theres usually something else wrong. And its not just little inner thing either - every so often I incur some little injury that niggles at me for ages until it heals.
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> Take today for example. My neck feels uncomfortable, making the muscles in my shoulders tense up and my vertebrae crack. I have a cut on my heel that is bound up with builders tape (out of bandages) and has left me limping slightly. A number of my fingers feel (and theres no other way to describe it) loose in their joints and I have in total five cuts on my hands and wrists. Not to mention the bruised upper lip from training last night when I caught a teeth-rattling shot in the face.
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> Once you sit and think about all your aches and pains, just the physical ones, it turns into a pretty long list.
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> I'm 22 now - whats it going to be like when I hit 40?
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> Bo"Dean Martin? Who he?"urne

You are too young to have much pain. And I'll bet most of it goes away. Or, you could learn to duck. I'm 68 and pain is just a part of life. I'm so used to my joints aching, I hardly notice it. I used to have terrible headaches, but not lately. I don't miss them a bit.

And Dean Martin, AKA Dino Corcetti, was a handsome Italian kid from Chicago who made it big as a crooner. For a while he teamed up with Jerry Lewis and made movies. He had his own way of dealing with pain.
Howard