Life is a struggle

I am not in a big shape today. Cold and rains: the perfect mix when your respiratory tract is weak. Stick in bed with a big cough and some fever I use this opportunity to read. I come through a sentence from Thomas Stern Eliot. “It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words”. I like the comparison even if it’s poetry, hence Eliot emphasises the feeling for the lover. Even if nothing else matters when you open your heart to someone who monopolizes every seconds of your life, every thoughts of your mind, every pulse in your neck there is always a medley of fears to be rejected and hopes to reach the heart of the beloved. For an asthmatic a crisis brings only one question: will I come through it?
But at least one of the greatest poets has tried to understand what an asthmatic may endure. And it is true that for a romantic as T S Eliot love is always close to pain. Like life for me today …


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