The Case of the Phelgm

The Case of the Phlegm

When infant gets out of the womb, let’s say via a natural birth, head first coming out of the stretched hole from a crying woman and the tiny human with all the mucus, phlegm, sometimes day-old sperm and some unknown impurities engulfs its tiny body……this is the first encounter of the phlegm.

In ancient age phlegm is said to be as counted as one of the four bodily humours, possessing the properties of coldness and wetness and was responsible for apathetic and sluggish behavior. This old belief is preserved in the word phlegmatic.

One early Saturday morning in the park, it was my taichi schedule, a continuing varieties of taichi styles was executed and the result was severe perspiration, really all body specially the upper torso was pull of sweat. Without towel or extra shirt for change, I travel home just like that.

Now this trigger the phlegm to become infected mucus that last a week, where I treated it with normal medicine, at the 2^nd week I continuously drink salabat or ginger tea, after the 3^rd week and on the 4^th week now I realized that I have to see a physician.

Within these 4 weeks of my phlegm experience, I get to spell the word right and I have realized that being alone is miserable.

For years of living all by me is such a challenge.

Friends ask me how I do that. How do I manage myself spending the night?

Neighbors do suspect me taking out girls from cheap bars or picking up whores from the street or spending the night surfing on the trash of the webs, Cyber PORNOGRAPHY.

Friends do tell me to find someone I can be with for the rest of the days, I know what they mean, I hope you do too.

Being alone coughing and coughing and coughing and having sleepless nights for weeks, no one to talk too, nobody to cling on in such case of being alone cause all my alternatives are unresponsive, all negative and maybe this becomes my mind opener that I can never exist alone, without a companion, without someone, without a relationship.

Just spitting out my phlegm, from white to yellowish to greenish it is still my phlegm every night, I’m always with.

Wealthy people in other countries turn their pet dogs, cats, etc. to be “special”. You can see them spend money to treat their pets as much as like humans, these are signs of emptiness of being alone, the need of a person for someone to-be-with, or this is just a life of MISERY, where misery needs company.

This is the Case of the Phlegm.