Night blossoms

I wish this was some night-blooming jasmine I was talking about. However I am talking about those latent conditions in your body that are seemingly non-existent when you go to sleep at night.. yet when you wake up they almost seem like an integral part of you. Be it a pimple… an infection… a cold or a fever, symptoms seemingly aggravate overnight when your defenses are lowered and you’re sleeping away that “beauty” sleep.

Like I woke up with a swollen eye. And the second I woke up, I knew something wasn’t right. My left eye felt puffy. I figured I’d probably slept on one side forcing the blood to one eye (does that even happen?) And went in to brush my teeth, I could appreciate the full extent of the overnight onset of a ridiculous heat boil. The core at the rim of my eye was clear evidence of what was to come. And sure enough while it seemed to subside through the day, another night’s sleep seemed to fuel it further. I guess the WBCs are busy attacking elsewhere and are too good to fight these tiny 2 day infections. And so what do we do? I guess we apply life and world philosophy to these tiny hindrances. This too shall pass.