Mind Over Matter.

I was at work recently, I was emptying the bin, I was going down the long garden path to the large bins, ready for the binmen to come and empty them.

I had done it, and was on my way back to the office, when suddenly it happened! There was nothing I could have done to prevented it happening, oh I wish there was. Everything happened in a flash. I have relived the moment over and over in my mind and sight. I wished I could have turned back the clock. It was unavoidable!

In a fraction of a second as I was going back to the office, a large fly flew up my nose. I stopped in my tracks, to compose myself, I thought the obvious thing to do was to shut my left nostril, and to blow it out! I tried that, and nothing happened. I know what I did not want to happen, was for it to go down, for me to swallow it.

I tried again, this time with even more power that I could muster, still nothing came out. This awful, disgusting, foreign body was still inside me. I could not feel it wriggling, for its life, but I knew it was still inside me.

Back in the office now, I felt it go down! I had swallowed it. I had to try and block it out. I had not had breakfast yet, it was pizza, it was a lovely brand, that I had bought reduced the day before, I had been really looking forward to it.

Then suddenly I felt a spark of hope, something was in my nose, I got a tissue and blew, it was jet black, it was just a fraction of the fly, I would guess looking at it, in the tissue it looked like just 2% of it. The other 98% had gone down to my tummy and into my body! Yak.

Now if this had happened, five years ago, I would have felt sick, if it had happened, ten years ago, I would have been sick! If this had happened fifteen years ago, I would have been SO ill I would have had to go home from work, on the sick, and if it had happened twenty years ago, I would have probably needed six months off counselling plus all of the above.

I know that in parts of the world they catch and eat flies and make patties out of them, and that they are suppose to be full of vitamins, this is not something that would appeal to me, and I think I read somewhere, as there might me a shortage of food worldwide, they are thinking of introducing some insects to encourage us to eat less meat. I think this is one way to get me to change my diet…. Without saying that Word!

I did eat my pizza, and surprise surprise, I did not enjoy it.

I really had to use, mind over matter, and tried not to ponder on it too much, for the fly committed suicide. He had not woken up that morning and decided to die in such an awful way. I lived to see another day, the fly did not.