How the mind manages to retain details of the most insignificant conversation is truly beyond me. While browsing news services online, I chanced on an article about how doctors & scientists are now testing the use of capsaicin (most commonly found in chillis) to provide pain relief.
When the ex (whose name I refuse to mention) was still in med school, we would frequently have conversations about medicine because as we all know, I am drugstore on legs. For reasons beyond me, I have no clue why I recall this particular conversation but I do. We were talking about how the elderly often used traditional chinese plasters (Tiger Balm etc) for pain relief as opposed to heeding the advice of western doctors and have it addressed more efficiently.
His professor was of the same notion and I was on the other side of the fence. Well, apparentally these scientists and doctors are now on my side as well.
Welcome, welcome.
For a nano second, I considered forwarding him the article because, it would be for the most part – funny. Ignoring the fact that we are no longer friends (not that we ever were post dating), he is no longer the person that used to take me for long car rides that would always end in the same place, nor the one that would buy me my favourite iced lemon tea prior to meeting me because I was addicted to it so. Neither is he, the boy that would wait for me in his beat up Suzuki when I was busy in the editing studio and couldn’t leave work on time. My mind has been left out on the advancements that my life has taken post TRS.
Perhaps, it’s time to update.
