- Wake up suffocating because your nose and throat have stopped functioning
- Realise that it’s 4:30 in the morning and shake off the feverish dream you had. You are NOT a space cowboy in real life
- Slowly fall back asleep only to wake up again two hours later with a headache
- Change sides on the bed and cover yourself in a blanket in the summer heat because you’re shivering now
- Finally give up on sleep at 10 am and make some tea
- Gorge on chocolate-chip cookies because they are your only true friend
- Close the windows an hour too late after realising that is the main reason you’re wrapped in two jackets
- Mindlessly surf the internet
- Realise that you have important things to do and try to work on them
- Give up after 5 minutes because ow brain
- Call your parent who lives very far away
- Dramatically whine to them about how unfair life is and that you’re dying (and also that you miss them, but cover it with a layer of complaints)
- Refuse to listen to their reasonable advice of taking cold medicine ’cause you’re lazy
- Hang up because they have actual work to do
- Call the other parent and repeat number 12
- Blink away the black spots that appear in front of your vision; you’re fine
- Listen to music
- Switch playlists far too often because you’re not in the “mood” to listen to every song that happens to come up randomly.
- Make yourself another cup of tea
- Try to read a book
- Fail at reading said book
- Attempt to cough the sickness out of your body
- Regret it immediately because everything hurts and the black spots have returned
- Eat something, making a face at the taste (or lack thereof) but finish it anyway
- Open the window
- Close it again; by the name of Vader’s left shoe it’s cold
- Decide to write a blog post about it while you’re still delirious so that no one can blame you for lack of content
- Project your life into the blog post to make it #relatable (hint: it’s not, actually)
- Make more tea
- Contemplate the feeling of being around loved ones that aren’t and feel bad about it
- Dock 10 Adulting points off while you’re at it ’cause you were supposed to be a strong independent woman damnit
- Finish your post
- Don’t proof-read it since that requires energy which has now been depleted from your entire existence
- Text your friends
- Stop halfway as typing needs life-fuel. Also: introvert
- Watch lifestyle-related shows and fantasize about your minimalistic, boho studio apartment one day
Make tea- Finally decide to take a warm shower and clean up your room full of discarded tissues and tea-bags
- Crawl into bed and fall asleep watching House Doctor on silent
- Startle awake at 4:30 am
How To Be An Okay Person 
Try moving to a city where the climate is warm and cosy and humid and rainy and polluted and there are too many people, train loads of them, and auto-rickshaws and buses and cars and motorcycles and honking….. But then it’s nice to have friends and family around in the chaos.
Come back home.
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💙💙💙💙
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Sounds like an ordeal! Hope you feel better soon! 😘
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thank you! i do
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Hey Niharika (aka. person who makes me laugh alot), I just wanted to let you know I nominated you for the Liebster Award. I’m not sure if you’re into doing awards, so no obligations to participate if you don’t want to. Just a way of saying “Thanks!” for the laughter you bring to me. 😀
https://ourdailyscraps.wordpress.com/2018/07/11/liebster-the-second/
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That about sums it up! 🙂 Glad you are better. 🙂
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