Normally I tend to wake up around 730 am, go down, have my tea,
take a bath, breakfast and then work. Today morning was supposed to be the same, but because of my cold it wasn’t. I get colds at the slightest change in
weather. Bad immunity? Maybe. So I have been suffering endlessly since
yesterday. I came home, fever starting to brew in me. Mum gave me a high dose
pill and I slept like a log.
It was all fine, but when I got up, still feeling like the
pill was working itself, it was 820.
My head hurt. I ran downstairs to have my
morning tea and asked mum why she couldn’t wake me up earlier. She wanted me to
take rest. Mum’s. To be honest, I wasn’t feeling all that great even after the
pill. Like the world was spinning in front of me, I still decided to get ready
for work (cause I love what I do).
Managing the day wouldn’t be a big deal, but my parents
thought otherwise.
I come down, and my sister (who has a holiday for an exam
tomorrow) told me not to go, trying to make me believe that I was so un-well I
could faint any second. Not taking much notice to her dramatic statement, I
went into the kitchen. Mum was making lunch for me and at the same time was
telling me not to go to work. What is it with everyone? I am fine. I’ll manage
it. All the while, during the process of my lunch-making she was telling me to
call in sick.
NO mom, you made lunch
for me. I have to go for that atleast.
I was asking for a rubber band to tie
this newspaper; in the background of all the endless denials towards me. My need
was subjugated. Then my sister goes up to my dad and tells him I’m not feeling
well.
Dad, being extremely cautious would not stand for a
second if my health hindered, let it be a cold, or even the slightest paper cut.
"Don’t go". Simple.
The same words I’ve been hearing for the last 20 minutes.
I have a deadline at work.
I still needed the rubber
band to tie the newspaper around my lunch box (because it would leak otherwise and I keep forgetting to buy Tupperware). Now slightly increasing the pitch I asked for it.
Dad tells me to keep my voice down or I’ll lose energy. Everyone’s
talking at once about how I can miss one day of work and how the entire company
isn’t only running on profits because of me.
My rubber band.
Go find it, it’s somewhere
in the back.
Fed up, I left them to their talking and mutual agreement against
me. Could not find it. My sister starts her act again and for the last time I ask
for the rubber band. Everyone now has finished complaining how I don’t look
after my health and in my face decide for me I should stay at home and take
rest. (Although that led me to this).
I slammed by box down
on the table. It’s been decided. I’m not going anywhere.
So much for the rubber
band now.