S I C K (18)

 S I C K

Not a common cold all the time, folks. Even if that is all you want it to be. Being sick can come in different forms or sizes. Can be arranged within the confines of a hospital room, or in the comforts of home. Though to be sick, isn’t always running a fever, or having some form of a runny nose. It could be something so hidden, so invisible, that it isn’t seen at all.

People will stare sometimes. Even more, be so confused they will never stop asking questions about it. More or less, those people don’t truly see what is behind it all. They see one thing, but have no idea how wrong they actually are. “In sickness and in health” as people say in marriage, or in simple everyday life as well. 

Just because every sickness isn’t always seen, does not mean that it is any smaller than others. It is simply something that others have yet to have crossed into their own lives. Sometimes in order for people to truly understand, is to see what occurs first hand. The shaking, fainting, feverish, chills of a condition that hides within a shell of a person. 

Though it is simple to see through people, people who all live different lives from one another. It is simple to make them feel small for something that no one understands. Sick. Although, the invisibility can wear off and be visible to the eyes, that does not mean that every person is ready to see exactly what it is that so many people hide. 

Your illness does not define you. Your strength and courage does.

-JS