Fesbukfirstkiatis

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Fesbukfirstkiatis

Assalamu 'alaikum,

Fesbukfirskiatis,

It’s the latest malady to grip the world. A debilitating illness that’s crippling much of humanity today. Many are discovering much work are not done or postponed indefinitely through the grip of this malady. Sufferers are unable to focus on getting any work done due this illness. Symptoms begin to show as red dots that appear in front of the eyes of the sufferers. It seems just not possible for the sufferer to ignore these red blotches that surreptitiously appear before their eyes. Immediately as if overcome by an unknown spiritual force they had to abandon their intention to do any work and focus their entire mind to address these symptoms first. 

But when they do that they are then caught in a horrendous vicious cycle, a compulsion to do things on the computer keyboard which they otherwise would not have done. Funnily enough the reaction to these red dots differs for each sufferer. Some makes the sufferers feel elated; others raise inexplicable feelings of annoyance, while others remains quite neutral in terms of the patient’s emotions.

Once gripped by the onset of the ailment, fingers begin to move as if having a life of their own. Once the sufferer has hit what he knows as the last key on the keyboard a sense of calm overcomes the sufferer and he is then able to address what work that he or she needs to do. But in nine cases out of ten, a new red blotch will appear in his eye which he or she can’t ignore again. And the motions are repeated until he again reaches the phase of calm.

The sufferer is fully aware of the illness he is suffering from and he feels happy the attacks hasn’t been too strong this morning and that he can now focus on getting his work done. Of course by this time it will be coffee time and he just has to go to the pantry or kitchen to get one.

Refreshed, once again he attempts to finish the report, or the excel model, or the PowerPoint presentation long overdue, only to be overcame again by the reddish rash across his eyes. This is a serious illness which have not been documented and researched by the medical profession yet. Sometimes the red dots are pre empted by a bleeping sound in the ear. Almost always the sufferer knows this forewarns the repetitious malady again.

He knows not who to talk to for the local clinic and medical GP certainly would not have heard nor have any drugs to deal with this ailment.

The only thing left for the sufferer, usually, is to blog about it and hope to find out whether there are similar sufferers throughout the world. Perhaps then a self-help group can be formed to assist and give comfort to similar sufferers throughout the world.

No name has been given to it yet but some early researchers suggest “Fesbukfirstkiatis” would not be inappropriate.

Wassalam,

Zahid