On being sick...

Its saturday morning of the long bonifacio day weekend. Sad to say that unlike the rest of the world, I've spent the first 3 days of this blessed break in bed. I'm sick, since tuesday's math LT.

I was perfectly fine that morning, but when the sun crept up into the sky at that certain point where it shine a specific ray of light specifically at me, it hit me. The sudden change in temperture from that cold early morning (my math class is at 7:30 am in tuesdays) to the baking heat of the sun plus the math test gave a cold attack like none I've ever experienced before. (My blockmates can tell you that :D ) I was sick the entire tuesday but got better during my last class which was in an airconditioned room, well enough to do some library exploring.

I was all better on wednesday, mostly because of the monster amounts of vitamin C in the form of the god like berocca tablets. On wednesdays i have PE. I'm enrolled in a running class, so thats pretty tiring. Those who have taken it before know what I mean. I ran the entire thingy our coach had prepared and went home pretty pooped out. Then i heard, no classes tom :D

Wow, no classes, but there was a typhoon! supposedly stronger than the dreaded Milenyo. I think Pagasa heeded my advice in giving it such a sissy name (no offence to people out there who share the name) My Milenyo entry :D

Although it was harldy felt here in metro manila, in the provinces was where the hurting was.

Thursday morning, and the cold attack returned. I was to tired to do anything but stay in bed and play FFXII and periodically passing out from fatigue and/or eye strain/ cerebral seizure.

Friday was like thursday, put into extreme mode all topped of with a helping of Happy feet :D

That night i finally told my parents that im sick, and now its official, I am Sick! Cough, colds, mild fever, the typical "im sick" scenario.

Well, sickness is somtimes attributed to misfotune. A series of events beyond the victim's control which causes him/her to become sick. The Environment and the changes it undergoes so that it may just upset one's inner balance and send him/her into an undesirable state. The sun and its stupid miggy hating powers started this!

Another way to get sick is by being extremely stupid. Even with the knowledge thjat you are vulnerable to viral attack or body failures one still continues to do things that will put one's health at risk. AIDS and "unmoderated" sex is a good example, me tiring myself out in last wednesday's PE is another.

I for one, abhor being sick.

I hate being sick, especially on a vacation like this! but i also hate being sick on days when theres work to be done. I'm not really a fan of cutting classes. I have a fear that i might miss something important and that i cant always rely on other people to help me make up for my misfotunes. Sickness hempers one's productivity, nuff' said.

In the old testament, when people got sick in those times it was considered a punishment imposed by God on sinners. Being productive back then was an important thing, a time when you literally reap what you sow. Remember the exodus? the ten plagues? or the various mini stories in the bible like that one guy becoming blind or leprosy and stuff like that? The afflicted were not able to participate in society properly and were either shunned as "dead weight", being unable to work their weight in productive output or "untouchables", people damned by God. Good thing we have doctors now dont we?

It is funny how some cultures in the past think sickness are symptoms of demonic possesions. In a way, i can see why. Other than God punishing you for being "sinful" sickness can be the physical manifestation of *ahem* not so good beings byond our comprehension. Instead of tempting you to do wrong, they do wrong on to you. Scary? :D

Sickness is a test of faith, like life itself

There were no medicines back then, aside from the usual plague, diesease and unexplainable viral out break, common colds could KILL! There are porbably a bunch of famous historic figures back then that could not continue their Legacy or what not because of sickness. Alexander the Great for one. He did not die in battle like many a great general of his time, but he died of a sickness he contracted. A Fever i believe. After His untimely death, Alexander's empire was destroyed as his generals fought over the spoils of war. Imagine If he did not get sick? How far would the Macedonian empire have reached? What kind of ruler could have alexander become? Maybe sickness is a history's tool for writing itself.

The world knows what being sick can do, extinction the extreme consequence of sickness. Thats why there is the ever evolving science of medicine and all the good people out there whom devote 10 or so years of the science to contirbute and practice it. Like modern day Jedi Knights ,doctors protect world health from word disease and the Ultimate zombie holocaust.

*back to reality

• Ma2o test results!!!!!!!
  
• a35 coming up real fast. excited :D
  
• en12 research paper has got me worried
  
• kat S.' and Anna K's debuts are coming up to, what to wear?
  
• What will i get, and who will i get it from in next week's H1 Kris Kringle?
  
• What will i get for the lucky/unlucky person who's name i got.
  
• Its almost Xmas :D
  
• I'm constantly reminded everyday that i'm 18 :D gonna vote next year! and hopefully, drive too !
  
• Will i ever find my heart song? and who will i share it with?
  
• I am a frustrated guitarist
  
• The search for the healty gonzaga cafe meal continues...
  
• Gotta remember to pray...
  
• Will someone actually read this blog entry with its unaatractive title and topic? any fans of "on crushes" out there?
  
• I'm sick, I'm afraid i did somthing terribly wrong to deserve this...

 

I hate being sick, its a proof of my ineptness...

"education cant make us all leaders, but it can teach us which to follow" - Kiko Machine, MAnix Abrera