Woke Up Sick

11:55 PM

I was sick today. I'm still sick right now as I write this. I think it's due to a few combined factors, one is that my dad is sick and/or he's been coughing a lot recently. Another is that I've been jogging / running for the past 2 days, which isn't very long, but our immune system is greatly weakened after a run, especially if we don't run much. The first day I ran it was out in the rain too, and I just held this closed umbrella in my hand as I ran. Another factor is going to the gym. I did some strenuous workouts for an hour yesterday, which left me sore, after I already jogged that day. I also sleep at 3 AM and get under 5 hours of sleep usually, and that was no exception today. So yeah, I woke up sick this morning.

I woke up with a sore throat and every part of my body feeling weird. It still feels weird right now, and by weird, I probably mean more sensitive. I think we've all been sick before, but it's pretty rare, so I'd like to describe the experience. I might have a fever too, I don't know, but I just feel very weak with a sore throat. So my body feels so much more sensitive, if I touch something metallic and slightly colder than room temperature, it's like a sharp cold feeling. The bottoms of my feet are cold, and if I touch my thigh with the bottom of one of my feet, the feeling is very sharp and obvious.

Another thing that's probably part of the sensitivity, is that I feel achy all over. It's hard to describe, normally I feel nothing, like I just feel normal. Whatever you feel in your default state, is what I consider normal. With a cold, my body kinda aches all over. My nose is also a little runny, and I cough a lot, every time I swallow sort of hurts. It's weird that people say that our tonsils serve no purpose, I think it's there to tell us when our immune system is weakened and compromised, this should be so obvious.

It is a lot harder to stand up and move, because I feel everything and it's achy and painful. I feel weaker too, though I can still probably do a bunch of pull ups and chin ups, and even push ups, my body aches too much to even try. I just stood up to use the bathroom right now, and basically my body just felt so much more sensitive and achy. Sometimes my ears would get this weird feeling.

I ended up not working today. I tried. I just couldn't concentrate. I watched anime all day. I saw a few of them at 2x speed. I've basically seen every anime, so a lot of them I just rewatch because I have seen them all basically, though I did stop watching all anime a few months ago, I've caught up to all of the interesting ones I missed out on. I might quit anime again and just read books. I think it's a more productive use of time to read non-fiction instead of the fiction overpowered isekai junk food I've been binging on.

I do admit so much of the anime and manga and manhwa are so good, they really get you hooked. That's why I need to quit them. I've quit all video games though, one of the last ones I played was AFK Journey. AFK Journey is an excellent game if you are looking for a junk food entertainment game. Basically every game is a junk food game, unless it's a language learning game.

I didn't run or exercise in the gym today due to being sick, though I did both of those yesterday. It sucks being sick. I was so hungry throughout the day too, I ended up eating a lot. I still did all my dailies, brain training, vegan activism, and I renewed the Habitica challenges, but nothing else that I can remember due to my condition.

Anyway, that was my day today.