Disclaimer: This letter may contain insulting words toward the receiver. 
(I'm not writing this letter for the girls who aren't experiencing this torture every month. Nor for the boys who will never know how sucks this pain women suffer. But I'm writing this to my one and only, the very constant, the one which never left me through hard times- MY DYSMENORRHEA )
Hey, good day! I just want you to know that I'm writing this missive for you on my birthday, hoping you have the empathy to not come this month.
I know you want to visit to wish me a happy birthday but girl, your absence would be the greatest gift I would ever receive in my 22 years of existence.
Opss, I'm sorry.
I guess I sound so harsh but that's the truth. Maybe you've grown so much affection for being with me for 7 years, but to be honest I've grown only dislike towards you.
Yes, I know you don't like that word but be lenient with me, remember IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY.
Well, if you think you don't deserve that kind of feeling, let me remind you of the things you did to me in the past few years.
Do you remember the first time you visited in 2014? I missed the Holy Mass in our baranggay and I used all the 'gas in our lampara' to calm you, but you were very aggressive that I ended up crying myself to sleep.
How about that time I went to the Poblacion with my cousins for a business matter and because I was important to you, you decided to accompany me. And there, a policeman asked me if I was fine because I looked so pale and not okay. And when my cousin answered that I had you, the not-so-dumb man in uniform said that maybe I was pregnant.
Despite all the excruciating pain I was feeling I wanted to shout at him, 'Sir, are you for sure? I haven't even kissed anyone and if you know a little bit about science you will know that I would not be experiencing this pain if I am pregnant."
No hatred towards the policeman but see how you nudge me to be a violent woman?
And let's talk about the time I thought I would lose my job because of you.
It's on February 21st of last year, I was at my workplace and I collapsed near the guardhouse (good thing he helped me), that I didn't care if I was lying on the dusty mattress of that place because you were intolerable.
I didn't even think of the consequences if I was caught by my employer sleeping inside that place.
Now, tell me you don't deserve my dislike towards you. I know you would excuse yourself by saying it's part of the cycle every month 
, but girl I can have my period without having you.
, but girl I can have my period without having you. Ww-wait I think I'm too much. Don't get me wrong. I'm a very understanding type of person, I can forgive you for all the pain you've done to me in the past. But please, with all due dislike and disapproval, I ask you not to come this month!
Your Unwelcoming Host Every Month Who is Having Her Birthday Today,
Life Gozon (May 26, 2021)
P. S. To all the girls/ladies/women who suffer this torment every month, I just want to say that YOU ARE BRAVE! You know that whatever you will go through in the future you can handle it because Dysmenorrhea taught you that after a day or two of excruciating pain, life is still good. Life still goes on!
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