Ouch!

What I feared the most has finally happened. My ground breaking prophecies have materialized. There’s no ambiguity any more. It’s official. I’m down with influenza.

The reprehensible scum of the human influenza virus that I had so far successfully evaded has finally got the better of me. Sometimes I wonder – actually I wonder, only when I’m sick- ‘how can a tiny micro-organism, which does not know for sure if it’s alive or dead make me feel so miserable.

The answer to this question lies in the analysis of the psychology of the virus. One of the universally accepted phenomenon of contracting flu is that of infection.

Over here, I now intend to draw an analogy between sick people and viruses. Try, living along with a sick person and you will soon end up becoming sick too (if you are not sick in the first place). This is true, in both the literal and the metaphorical sense. Well not actually, literally speaking you can possibly develop a certain amount of resistance to the disease, but if your companion is a sick person (metaphorically) you’ve had it!

The virus is a grouchy, isolated and a sick creature. Ask a woman who’s given birth to a single one, and she’ll tell you how troublesome it can be. A virus replicates hundreds of times in a minute. That’s like giving birth to a hundred babies in a minute. No wonder the virus a grouch. Moreover, all these viral babies don’t care a damn about their mother and immediately go about giving more babies. This makes the mama virus real mad.

Nobody likes a virus. It’s got no identity. No one cares for a virus, not even other viruses. It’s not their fault actually. It’s hard to differentiate one virus from another, so even the very few ones that have got a heart of gold – I’m not sure that they’ve got a heart in the first place – know not who to care for.

So it’s all crystal clear now. Just as staying with a sick (metaphorically) person makes you sick, if a sick creature like a virus enters your system and staying within you for at least a week, has to make you feel miserable.