Think of this as a public service announcement. If you’re one of the people that says ‘well D’uhhh’ at the end of reading this post I wish you’d shared this information with me earlier i.e 20-something years ago, instead of keeping it to yourself.

While talking to Eric tonight he told me he was feeling a little under the weather, to which I replied that he wasn’t ‘taking care of himself’. He told me that he felt he was a healthy young lad. Not what I was talking about. Apparently (and I never put two and two together), we’re always carrying some sort of flu, or cold or whatever around with us.

The only way this illness manifests itself into all those great things well all love (runny noses, fevers, fatigue etc), is when we don’t take care of ourselves. What that effectively means is when we wear t-shirts when we really should be wearing a jumper. Not changing clothes after gym and going out in the cold. Not sleeping properly and not eating properly. Effectively neglecting our bodies for that brief period of time while we dealt with something much more important in our lives at the time. You’ve got no one to blame but yourself when the shit hits the fan.

So as the winter is closing in us, make sure you take yourself, otherwise don’t come crying to me. I tried, which is a lot more than I can say to all those people out there that kept this bit of information to themselves.