I’ve had the worst cold/mutant virus from hades I can recall for many years; the kind of miserable affliction where you feel rotten awake and you feel rotten trying to sleep.

I’m not going into deep theology here, but one upside to such a condition is that is reminds us how good we feel most of the time, and that is something we take for granted. Unless you feel really good or really bad you don’t take much notice. When you feel terrible you start to appreciate–and even long for–the way you feel on an average day.