How Are You Feeling?

A trip through health (mental and physical), psychology, adolescence, fatherhood, relationships and the rocky terrain of emotions

Emotions as represented by old roller-coaster (via visualhunt.com)

My friend is sick. Well, at least three of my closest friends are sick. (warning: fractions may be unreliable). One-third of the Bay Area is sick. One-quarter of the United States is sick. According to my scientific research, one-eighth of the world’s population is sick.

We all either have the regular old winter flu, a bad version of the common cold, COVID-19, allergies, a combination thereof and about 60% of Americans have Trump-itis.

I’ve been mildly-sick to flu-ridden for half of the winter. My partner has been sick. Our daughter has been sick several times, too. We’re all sick of being sick. We’re also tired of being tired. Now, with COVID-19, much of the information-gathering world is understandably on edge and the markets are starting to reflect the interconnectedness of the illness, the impact of the illness on economic forces, and the paranoia that’s connected to the unknowns related to this new virus.

Scaling Happiness

Because I care about my friend, after he’d been sick for a day or so, I texted him to see how he was doing. Here’s our interaction, which has me thinking…