When you have an
asthma attack, you can't
breathe. When you can't breathe, it's difficult to
talk. Your sentence is blocked by the amount of
air you are able to take out of your
lungs. It isn't much, something between three to six
words. It makes you
respect the
word. You go through the heap of words that come up in your
head. Choosing the most important. And they too cost you. Unlike
healthy people that take out all the words piled up in their heads like you take out
garbage. When someone says "I
love you" or "I really love you" during an attack, there's a difference. A difference of a word. A word means a lot, because a word could be "sit", "
ventolin" or even "
ambulance".
-Etgar Kerrett (hebrew)