To Feel Happy and Well

Multitasking, my favourite pastime, doing three
or four things simultaneously makes me happy,
listening to music while writing, chatting to an
author while researching, eating forbidden
things triggering immune response while
reading surreptitiously at work

According to the New Scientist, immune responses
triggered by Mycobacterium vaccae causes neurons
in prefrontal cortex to release serotonin which boosts
well-being and mood, justifying our joy while eating
corn chips since allergic response leads to a
mental high, afterwards we pay the price

When the immune system lacks regulatory cells to termi-
nate unwanted inflammatory responses thus causing
our subsequent downfall, after delighting in all this
wonderful multifarious activity we are fatigued, eyes
swelling in allergic response to chemical food-
stuffs consumed with alacrity, yet in future

A bacterium injection might come to our aid,
my generation was born a century too early
and immune response to oil and wheat seals
our doom; in future allergic people need to
live in unhygienic circumstances to be happy
and painfree, doing my best to live dirty

Though love for water activities, swimming and
bathing, still leads to my undoing as our gene-
ration was not exposed to organisms like
M. vaccae in early life, thus we have to
work hard to feel happy and well…

Based on article in New Scientist:
Infectious moods: How bugs control
your mind 12 January 2011