Pounding The Keyboard

        He was watching her live video and her coughing a few times made him worried.      “Sorry,” she said. “I have this cough for a few days now, but I’m okay, I’m taking my medicines.”      They didn’t know each other, he was a regular guy, a nobody, while she was a famous celebrity—he was a fan and an admirer.      He closed his social media when her video finished and continued working. A few hours later, he started coughing. He was coughing as he commuted home, and he was coughing as he tried to sleep that night.      That wasn’t the first time it happened.      A few months ago, she complained of having a fever while doing a live video—and a few hours later, he was also running a fever.      Before that, he also remembered her complaining of cold and a sore throat, and a few hours later, he also had a cold and a sore throat.      Was she infecting him through her videos?      He shook his head and grinned—sometimes, he had this so-vivid imagination. Those were

       Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess who wanted to marry, so she blew a kiss into the wind. And as her breath traveled into the air, it slowly turned into a butterfly, its wings the pinkest color.      It flew away, and the wizard beside the princess said, “Whoever the man whose lips that butterfly would kiss, he’s the one you should marry.”      And the princess smiled and watched the butterfly vanish from her sight.      After a week, a man went to the castle, with the pink butterfly nestling on his hand.      “This butterfly just landed on my lips,” he said.      And the kingdom held its grandest wedding.      But just a few days after the union, a woman visited the castle and demanded to see the princess.      “That man you married,” the woman said sternly to the princess. “He killed my son.”      “And why would he kill your son?” the princess, instantly agitated, asked.      “At first, I didn’t know,” the woman answered with debilitating grie

       Life is truly unpredictable.      You can be a doctor, rich and popular, who does nothing but advise people on how to live longer and live a healthy life, on how to avoid illnesses including cancers, on what to eat and what not to eat, on what to do and what not to do your body to stay healthy, and on why it is very important to avoid stress, as stress will make you sick and even kill you.     Stress will make your mind and body feeble, you can't stress it enough, so you regularly spew out ways to avoid stress.     People are saying that you'd probably live up to 150.      Then, tragically, suddenly, you are diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease (so deadly one would be so lucky to survive a year after diagnosis). And the reason you developed the illness? Stress. You claim that you've been dealing with stress most of your life. How you were unable to avoid stress is what beats a lot of people.      Then there’s this man in your neighborhood, who’s already in hi