Knock..Knock...Not feeling well here
Everyone falls ill once in a while. And like everyone, I do too. Both fortunately and surprisingly, this is just the second occasion in the past one and a half years that I have felt listless and unenergetic. The cause of ill-health is severe cold and a throat infection as most of the times. In fact it is the only health problem, other than being under-weight, that has seriously bothered me in my life.
The point to make here is that, with adulthood comes this unavoidable need to combat illness in the fastest possible way. It is totally unacceptable any more to stay away from work under the pretext of "not feeling well". I dont think ill-health is unavoidable. But I do feel that by the mid twenties, a human must have realized what illnesses bother him the most, and for those particular illnesses, he should have a battleplan ready as to how to get rid of it asap. As I said, in my case, the illness is like a universal constant, so there should be a way to work around it whenever it is around. And thats the attempt.
Consuming a lot of hot fluids seems to be my immediate action in these situations. Cups of hot tea, coffee, turmeric and milk, keep finding their way through my alimentary canal, but they dont seems to have an effect. Then ofcourse, there are medicines remaining from the last time your physician prescribed for the same illness and you stopped taking them as soon as you started feeling a little better. But medicines somehow seem to take their own sweet time.
The biggest wall illness creates is that of lack of enthusiasm to do anything. I personally have a very full of everything life. There is always something or the other happening, and there is always a need to do something with my time. So I conclude that my body uses illness as a means to tell me, "You crazy bastard, gimme a break". And that is exactly what I have decided to do from now on. Any signs of ill health will be viewed upon as indications of exhaustion and a need to slow things down.
The number one thing to do is cut down on the talking. In fact, it is only when I fall ill that I realize how much b.s. I talk usually for no reason at all. There is no reason to start conversations with people I hardly know in case I cross their paths in hallways. Or neither is there any reason for me to refute to what friends have to say just for the sake of some rotten and totally uncalled for "element of humor". So remember, cut the crap.
The second thing to do is stop socializing. This is one thing I think I overdo. Somehow I have this constant urge of being with people all the time. That has to stop. Illness is the time to sit in ur home, lock urself up and become pensive. Keep all your brilliant ideas to yourself, and think of even better ones for times when you shall be fit as a fiddle.
The third and the most important thing to do is, stop thinking about it. You know how you always feel down and pissed off about yourself when you are sick. Thinking of things like, if only I had not had the extra scoop of ice-cream on my cone, why dint I stop myself from consuming that cold, tangy juice, etc. etc. etc. Well, you have to stop doing that! Simply because its not gonna take you to a solution. Neither will you get better thinking about it, and nor will you ever quit doing it in future. The attempt should be to think, okay, this is the situation I am in, this is what I cannot do for reasons mentioned before, and this is what I will do instead.
1. Watch a feel good movie all by myself.
2. Catch up on literature reading, magazine reading, newspaper reading, etc.
3. A novel should do no harm. Grab one and seem busy. No one will automatically bother you.
4. Definitely let your colleagues know that you are not feeling too well, and hence not to expect much assistance from you at work.
5. And do some thinking.
I hope you get the important point here, that you need to stop doing everything else, except for your work. Cause that is true worship and should not stop.
The point to make here is that, with adulthood comes this unavoidable need to combat illness in the fastest possible way. It is totally unacceptable any more to stay away from work under the pretext of "not feeling well". I dont think ill-health is unavoidable. But I do feel that by the mid twenties, a human must have realized what illnesses bother him the most, and for those particular illnesses, he should have a battleplan ready as to how to get rid of it asap. As I said, in my case, the illness is like a universal constant, so there should be a way to work around it whenever it is around. And thats the attempt.
Consuming a lot of hot fluids seems to be my immediate action in these situations. Cups of hot tea, coffee, turmeric and milk, keep finding their way through my alimentary canal, but they dont seems to have an effect. Then ofcourse, there are medicines remaining from the last time your physician prescribed for the same illness and you stopped taking them as soon as you started feeling a little better. But medicines somehow seem to take their own sweet time.
The biggest wall illness creates is that of lack of enthusiasm to do anything. I personally have a very full of everything life. There is always something or the other happening, and there is always a need to do something with my time. So I conclude that my body uses illness as a means to tell me, "You crazy bastard, gimme a break". And that is exactly what I have decided to do from now on. Any signs of ill health will be viewed upon as indications of exhaustion and a need to slow things down.
The number one thing to do is cut down on the talking. In fact, it is only when I fall ill that I realize how much b.s. I talk usually for no reason at all. There is no reason to start conversations with people I hardly know in case I cross their paths in hallways. Or neither is there any reason for me to refute to what friends have to say just for the sake of some rotten and totally uncalled for "element of humor". So remember, cut the crap.
The second thing to do is stop socializing. This is one thing I think I overdo. Somehow I have this constant urge of being with people all the time. That has to stop. Illness is the time to sit in ur home, lock urself up and become pensive. Keep all your brilliant ideas to yourself, and think of even better ones for times when you shall be fit as a fiddle.
The third and the most important thing to do is, stop thinking about it. You know how you always feel down and pissed off about yourself when you are sick. Thinking of things like, if only I had not had the extra scoop of ice-cream on my cone, why dint I stop myself from consuming that cold, tangy juice, etc. etc. etc. Well, you have to stop doing that! Simply because its not gonna take you to a solution. Neither will you get better thinking about it, and nor will you ever quit doing it in future. The attempt should be to think, okay, this is the situation I am in, this is what I cannot do for reasons mentioned before, and this is what I will do instead.
1. Watch a feel good movie all by myself.
2. Catch up on literature reading, magazine reading, newspaper reading, etc.
3. A novel should do no harm. Grab one and seem busy. No one will automatically bother you.
4. Definitely let your colleagues know that you are not feeling too well, and hence not to expect much assistance from you at work.
5. And do some thinking.
I hope you get the important point here, that you need to stop doing everything else, except for your work. Cause that is true worship and should not stop.
posted by Riskit at 12:01 PM
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