Lying in the emergency unit due to an asthma attack, Israeli author Etgar Keret wrote the following text:
“When you have an asthma attack, you can‘t breathe. When you can‘t breathe, you can hardly talk. To make a sentence, all you get is the air in your lungs. Which isn‘t much, three to six words, if that. You learn the value of words. You rummage through the jumble in your head, choose the crucial one. And those cost you, too. Let healthy people toss out whatever comes to mind the way you throw out the garbage. When an asthmatic says “I love you” and when an asthmatic says “I love you madly”, there’s a difference. The difference of a word. And a word is a lot. It could be „stop“ or “inhaler”. It could even be “ambulance”.“ Read More