Filtering out what matters

What do you have without your health? Five questions to ask yourself everyday. The optionality of life. Using time and boredom to guide your decisions.

Take more baths in nature. Photo by the author.

11:58pm — Shit.

1:09am — Shit.

2:14am — Shit.

3:27am — Shit.

4:44am — Shit.

I started tracking how many times I’d visited the toilet during the night by messaging myself “Shit.”

That morning Brooke and I talked about her upcoming streak of working 10-days in a row. I told her that sucked and she agreed. I’d reveal more about the conversation but I can’t remember much. My insides were going weapons hot and distracted me to the point of committing little to memory.

Did you know symptoms of the typical campylobacter infection take 2–5 days to appear and can last 1–10 days?

Well, while sitting opposite Brooke, the handful of campylobacter in my gut were reaching the end of their 2–5 days.

I stared at the pale blue wall and laughed. We became friends. Me and the pale blue wall and the 84 orange tiles (not my colour choice) on my bathroom floor.