Monday 28 May 2012

THE COLD

It all begins when you think,"wow, almost everybody around me has got the flu and I have passed the entire season change period without incurring even a slight temperature!! incredible!" Now when you think that, there's always a spy lurking around some corner that reports to its lord,"the cold". The cold feels insulted, or, maybe it remembers it overlooked you during a faulty "prey count" and so, it sends all its armed forces to unleash hell-fire and torment you until you pray for mercy.
The first army base would be the throat. It takes a while for them to finalize their strategy(though it's always the same). Then they begin to move. A third of them move up through the nose, another through to your tongue in order to capture the taste buds and the remaining proceed to your chest. The latest are specialized. They are equipped with the means to survive all weapons. However, you are foolish enough to let them go on until you're too tired of it and you are left with no option but to retaliate with a nuclear war(the antibiotic injections). On the other hand, the nose has put up a good fight and managed to banish the soldiers in groups of few until there were none left. When the last remaining mercenaries at the "tongue camp" realize they are in minority, they decide to back down too.
The destruction that the soldiers left behind at their first base(the throat) has lasted beyond this war. On figuring that they would never again return to the spot, they had burned it down. Now the skin is cracked and sore.  And thus, they succeed in leaving behind their legacy. Their month long efforts do not go in vain.