Plea #62: Runny Nose My nose ran today. It ran all day.
There's no one more appreciative of the ability to breathe freely, than someone damned to nasal constriction.
You only truly appreciate what you had, once it's lost, as they say... 
I try to be grateful before I lose things, though.
Sometimes, on normal days, when I have my health, the sun gently caresses my skin, and the clouds have dissipated, I realize what I have and take a moment to be grateful.
I know that in that moment, I will yearn for the time I have now later down the line.
I try to bottle up the feeling... save it for a day of rain.
For a nose of stuff... For a light very dim...
I don't know if it really works...
But it does make me feel a little better about it all, in that fleeting moment that I've tried so desperately to save.
I know it won't last...
But maybe that's what makes it so valuable...
In that way... I suppose I appreciate both the good and the bad... at least once the bad has passed.
And man, do I wish this bad would pass.