September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
When I have a stinking cold or a nasty bug, I confess I have a bit of a tendency to mention it.3 Negatively, apparently. Well I’m not going to be positive about it, am I? However I really must learn to stop doing it. Not because it irritates other people, although I’m told that’s a thing, but because it makes me feel worse. Every time I mention it, it reminds me how rubbish I feel. I hear myself saying words like ‘I’ve felt better’ or ‘Pretty rough actually, since you ask’, and ping! I feel pretty rough. What a surprise.
My mother-in-law, who is beyond stoical, takes the opposite approach. When asked how her cold is, I’ve actually heard her reply, ‘What cold?’ She’ll insist she’s fine. The striking thing here, and ...