Fever and Friends

"  So do you wanna know how a bacterial infection relates to friendship?"

By the time you will reading this entry I would be bedridden for the rest of the day, while my classmates would have completed the field trip to a mental health institute (which is very cool). While I shall be on the bed, thinking about the things I missed and how my friends would react to this notification at such short notice.

I think that really relates to the very human sense of responsibility towards your friends, your work and your interests. The longing for interaction and belongingness and the moment you feel that it is getting threatened, (in this case a viral fever that forces you to quit from a trip with your friends) we experience all sorts of fear, whether I have betrayed them, would they understand my situation and god knows what not. Its like we are consumed with anticipation of future events. But then there is no reason not to cause you don't want to betray your friends or whatever reason you claim it to be. But if we really look at it from a distance, aren't we rather being selfish as to focusing on our own interests and the repercussions we would face rather than actually thinking about the feelings of our friends.(not true in every case, last thing I want is an outrage). Our minds make these false justifications every-time to convince us of our decisions. We will never really know what our friends will be thinking, they might be angry or they are having such a good time that they might have not even noticed your absence. And it is to only some extent we can anticipate a situation. And if its a case of a fever you should probably be more focused on getting well rather than lament, which causes stress and could actually worsen the case altogether (personal experience, though at the time I didn't lament, I was worried for exams, but that still counts as stress !). And at end of the day all of the effort that you would put on anticipating may not even amount to anything in the end so it just devolves into a complete waste of time and energy



So to answer the question above, I would say that it may relate to friendship quite a lot, but it depends on how you think and react to the situation. If you truly know your friends, you would know not to worry about it. And not stretch yourself too far in fear cause even the most elastic rubber band will break at some point.