Is it time for your medication, or mine?
I don’t know if it was the cold holiday week in the mountains or the over-effective air conditioning in the office, but I’m definitely coming down with the flu. The worrying part is that this is the second time in less than three months while I’m normally only sick once or twice a year. But uncharacteristically, this time I’ll try to see the positive side of it. For one thing, it’s Thursday. For the second, I’m not stressed.So?
As recently as a couple of years ago I normally never got sick in the middle of the week. Only during weekends or the holidays, I was so uptight and constantly stressed that my body wouldn’t give in to a bug until it was officially time to relax. Now I’m more relaxed every day, so I can get decked any day of the week. Wo-hoo!
But the funny thing is, now that I’m sick I seem to be even more relaxed. I haven’t completely given up on taking things too seriously so when things start going wrong, I take it hard. But on days like today… I just don’t care! Feeling miserable in every other way protects me from the complications at work, so everything can start falling apart around me and my biggest concern will still be if I’m overdosing on Fisherman’s Friends.
I wish I could tap into the nevermind-mentality without being sick. I don’t want to adopt a casual attitude towards work, but I would just like to be able to take it easy even when the going gets tough and spare myself from the tensions and headaches that used to be my constant companions. The physical discomfort seems to build an emotional barrier of a kind… The last time I was sick, I watched a film that I have never been able to see without crying. But that time, I got through it with dry eyes and I loved it! Anyone knows how to build that barrier without the sore throat and infected sinuses?
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