Getting Sick
It’s an interesting world we live in.
Sickness. It doesn’t sound like a fun word, and unsurprisingly, it’s most definitely not fun. Far less fun than you, or anyone else might expect. Even the mildest sickness can have a significant impact on people’s lives, throwing away the most precious resource that we have; one that every human treasures above just about anything else: time.
An Experience with a Friend
We can’t accomplish everything alone.
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
Friends give us different viewpoints. Whenever I’m out of ideas; struggling to do something, it’s often my friends who help me, and give me inspiration. However, I didn’t realize this until quite recently. It was a couple of weeks ago, when one of my friends gave me the inspiration, and the key to finishing my homework.
Empathy, Bigotry & Marginalization
When not to be sick.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
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People are influenced by fear. Although one person’s fear often doesn't harm other people, when it does, the impact can be quite noticeable. Fear can take many forms, but right now, one of the more prominent and widespread fears among humans has been the recent coronavirus outbreak in China. Although I hadn’t really paid it much mind before now, it was only recently that I realized how much of an impact that it can have on people.
Yesterday, I had a fencing competition. Normally, this would have been fairly uninteresting. It was a fairly small competition that didn’t have much of an impact on anything, really, and there just wasn’t anything too special about it. However, there was a slight problem: my entire family was sick. Although it was just with the flu and (thankfully) not the coronavirus, those two diseases were similar enough to potentially make people rather... unhappy. We even considered not going at all if we looked “too sick” because of the potential fear that we might cause. But, in the end, we decided to go anyway.
Interestingly enough, it didn’t go too badly. I got a half-decent result, and not too many weird looks were given when we couldn’t control the occasional cough. But then again, I wouldn’t have blamed them anyway even if they did do something, because I probably would have done the same if I were in their position. Although virus’s are quite interesting, they also aren’t the most friendly things in the world, and approaching them without fear or caution wouldn’t be normal. Funnily enough, I think it was my sister who passed the disease to the rest of us. My parents don’t go out often, and they got the disease before I did.
So, I suppose one lesson could be taken out of this experience: try not to go near babies who are sick.