It comes slowly, it creeps your system, catapulting your life into a death zone. More unnerving is its mode of attack. It has these sharp, piercing claws that hold on to your heart, and with every sneeze devour on uprooting it, from its very foundation. As you strive to hear those 'god bless you's, on excessive sneezing that surely does not mean anything of the sort that trivial teenage nonsense beliefs that 'someone cares for you' but more so, someone wants you to vanish!! Well you can't do that. You fight this big bad world, you fight till you feel strongly about living. This monster of a viral, makes the head heavy, like as if some incredibly powerful spirit has taken possession of your mild being, which makes you even more threatening, for then your temper becomes killing, and the person that you are becomes a deadened zombie merely trying to obey the master(the indomitable evil Viral spirit), the torture has just started. The conniving arms of the viral, now strengthen towards the ear lobes as they seem to bulge and then come in contact with the chest, so every sneeze makes the head go haywire, and the jitters and jerks are hell bent on twitching the nose, the nerves don't know when the sneeze is to arrive and the moment before the sneeze is absolute chaos. The sneeze enjoys all the attention, it is like a spoilt actress who doesn't want to come out of her van until she gets a red carpet strewn outside her door!!. The sneeze and the TRP must share a good chemistry,as the eagerness with which the producers of a TV show watch the TRPs rise, that's the eagerness with which a sneeze is desperately awaited. And finally the bubble bursts, out comes the mucus alongwith a generous outburst of thank you's..and relief, that you feel, is just temporary, you see it's a viral, and he's just trimming his nails...it's war!!
