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"I'm dick"
2023-12-08
My sweet niece, when she was all of six years old, would often switch up one word for another far more comical, which gave me no end of delight. Whenever she became sick, she would declare over the phone, "Auntie Patti, I'm dick," to which I'd reply, "Oh my! I'm so sorry my darling that you're not feeling well." She would then reinforce her reaction to her state of health, "I don't like being dick." Indeed, who does? My niece, like all kids, was very dick at times going to school and only someone who is dick can attest to the awfulness of being dick, which is how I felt for most of November, very dick.
Human emotions are affected by a number of factors: predisposition (brain chemistry), mood swings brought on by fatigue, dealing with others, familial dramas, work stress, the unanticipated, adverse reactions to food, connectedness or lack there of and, generally the state of your body on the whole. If your body is feeling tender and full of aches, bet your last dollar that your emotional state of mind will be adversely affected. As I pointed out to my photographer friend, David Three Rats, the other day, it's simply not healthy or normal for anyone to feel 100% all the time. There must be days when you would much rather crawl back into bed, pull the covers over your snotty head, and hide from the world or, conversely, lay down with your pain as some philosophers encourage, and own it. I'm of the opinion that our bodies know intuitively when it's time to come in from the world of the living in order to retreat from the game and give yourself some peace and quiet, a little space to re-evaluate. For if you were that kind of person who never got sick and was perennially in an upbeat mood, I'd automatically assume that are you a liar or in denial, and no longer able to comprehend the reality that our bodies get derailed sometimes.
Heating up the blood is thought by many medical practitioners to be a wise course of action with body chills. In fact, and according to one family member who worked for nearly 30 years at a local area hospital, when your body breaks out into chills, it's telling you to heat up the body and by extension the blood. Get yourself into a hot bath and soak until the chills subside. A hot shower will simply not do. You need to wallow in heat and steam. Your body will thank you for it because your blood will behave differently in fighting off those nasty colds and viruses, which seem to spread especially fast when the weather dramatically changes like it does this time of year: one day warm, the next frigidly cold, well excluding temperate climates of course.
I'm blessed with a strong constitution, mentally and physically, but even I have moments when I need to be dick, as my adorable niece was fond of saying. And being dick was the very reason why I had to pass on my company's holiday celebration this year. I learned afterward that some became dick the next day after the party, and they too were advised to remain home, to avoid making other colleagues dick.
So, when in doubt, and you're feeling dick, it's OK to pull back, to withdraw from the vicissitudes of life. You won't be thought the lesser for it, because we all know that the dick is notorious for getting around town, and even more so this time of year.
Happy Holidays to come!
Human emotions are affected by a number of factors: predisposition (brain chemistry), mood swings brought on by fatigue, dealing with others, familial dramas, work stress, the unanticipated, adverse reactions to food, connectedness or lack there of and, generally the state of your body on the whole. If your body is feeling tender and full of aches, bet your last dollar that your emotional state of mind will be adversely affected. As I pointed out to my photographer friend, David Three Rats, the other day, it's simply not healthy or normal for anyone to feel 100% all the time. There must be days when you would much rather crawl back into bed, pull the covers over your snotty head, and hide from the world or, conversely, lay down with your pain as some philosophers encourage, and own it. I'm of the opinion that our bodies know intuitively when it's time to come in from the world of the living in order to retreat from the game and give yourself some peace and quiet, a little space to re-evaluate. For if you were that kind of person who never got sick and was perennially in an upbeat mood, I'd automatically assume that are you a liar or in denial, and no longer able to comprehend the reality that our bodies get derailed sometimes.
Heating up the blood is thought by many medical practitioners to be a wise course of action with body chills. In fact, and according to one family member who worked for nearly 30 years at a local area hospital, when your body breaks out into chills, it's telling you to heat up the body and by extension the blood. Get yourself into a hot bath and soak until the chills subside. A hot shower will simply not do. You need to wallow in heat and steam. Your body will thank you for it because your blood will behave differently in fighting off those nasty colds and viruses, which seem to spread especially fast when the weather dramatically changes like it does this time of year: one day warm, the next frigidly cold, well excluding temperate climates of course.
I'm blessed with a strong constitution, mentally and physically, but even I have moments when I need to be dick, as my adorable niece was fond of saying. And being dick was the very reason why I had to pass on my company's holiday celebration this year. I learned afterward that some became dick the next day after the party, and they too were advised to remain home, to avoid making other colleagues dick.
So, when in doubt, and you're feeling dick, it's OK to pull back, to withdraw from the vicissitudes of life. You won't be thought the lesser for it, because we all know that the dick is notorious for getting around town, and even more so this time of year.
Happy Holidays to come!
