The common room's lights slowly flicker on; the room is silent. "Looks like it's gonna be just me off to class at this hour" I say to myself, and proceed across the meandering hallway to the bathroom. Use the toilet, pop in the contacts, brush the teeth and wash my face; simple as A-B-C.
On the side next to the sink, I see a small, brown pill with a large letter P on it. I think to myself, "Do I really need to swallow that today?" As I have done for the past 20 years, I've put it off, got dressed, checked the news online and got on with my day. Every time I wake up, every time before I go to bed, I think about that little brown pill.
I've heard many stories of that pill:
"Taking it makes your life so much better."
"It takes worse than Chinese medicine mixed in with cheap beer."
"You don't have to swallow it, do you?"
To be frank, I wasn't so sure either. it's hard to preach something that you don't necessarily practice yourself, but one day, I tried it. I swallowed that little brown pill, just to see how it was. They weren't lying about the taste; it certainly didn't feel too good going down, and I'm not sure if I want it to ever come up, if you get the picture. After the funky episode of initial disgust, I realized that life seemed more chill, less stressful, people seemed nicer...overall better.
From that day forward, I have taken and swallowed that pill everyday faithfully. Be it part of someone's new year's resolutions, or just a spur-of-the-moment realization and change in someone's life, or even something as simple as a curious individual trying something new.
Despite not liking it very much, people should always swallow that little brown pill...called Pride.
3 comments:
brown. it does sound like chinese medicine ewwww.
very good read
like the concept. while reading this i was seriously like "what is this pill and where can i get it?" then i read the last sentence and was like "...oh."
One of my favorite reads from your blog.
@Melody - multivitamins :)
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