I’m basically a well person. I get the occasional cold and have that perpetual 5kgs to loose, but on the whole, I’m pretty robust. So is it really wrong that every now and then, I actually hope for a small-ish kind of unwellness that would allow me to stay at home (but not on a day when the cleaners are here!) to lie on the couch and watch TV?
It is wrong I know. Health is so very important to be so flip, but a little break would be nice and I can’t think how else that kind of ‘lie around and do nothing’ is ever going to happen.
I have to be physically unable to stand up before I declare defeat and have a day off work. Ridiculous I know as there plenty, who at the first sign of a sniffle, insist they’re being martyrs for staying home watching daytime TV to avoiding spreading the germs with their work mates. That wouldn’t work for me because being that well would mean I’d spend the day doing countless jobs at home while feeling sick with guilt that I’m not at work!
A few years back I worked with a colleague who every time the pressure was on, she got sick. Like really sick. And we work in advertising for goodness sake, so that was like every other week. It was such a clear connection between her stress and sickness, I had to announce that projects like hers should be left to people like me who care less! (If you are one of my clients, please don’t fire me! It’s not that I don’t care, and as you know there are times when I could throw up – but mostly manage to keep it all down…)
