The Advantages of Having the Flu.
1) Usually you lose some weight and for a moment in time you remember what it was like to be slender.
2) You gain a new appreciation on simple things like breathing and being able to walk down the street.
3) Once you survive the critical point, but are just too drained to start up the old routine, you can rent a stack of videos and catch up on all the movies you have been meaning to watch.
4) At the tail end of the flu, you can milk your condition and not be available to the outside world for as long as you can push it.
5) I personally believe the flu may toughen us up, building a resistance like genetic transmutation. If an insect can build up a resistance to agricultural herbicides & pesticides, maybe the flu allows us an opportunity to build a resistance to all the environmental hazards we are subjected to every day.
Little Neo