It ain't easy being green

One day you are minding your own business, going along in your life, and you feel a bit down, stressed, generally whacked. But that's life, and you are pushing through it...you feel a bit under the weather for a few days, as if you have a cold, no big deal.

But you wake up one morning and realize that your skin is turning green.

No one else thinks it's a big deal. It's still skin. You're healthy otherwise. You look fine. Come on. Don't be a baby.

Just wash more. Just eat different. Just get more exercise. Try this cream. But the green is getting more and more pronounced, getting greener and greener despite anything you try. For 2 months, you are getting greener. People are starting to notice.

"What is wrong with you? Stop turning green! Get ahold of yourself. You're such a baby. How can you be so weak. STOP TURNING GREEN WHY DON'T YOU!"

You smile. You cry. Inside you are thinking "what the f--- just happened to me???" You believe them, and you try, but the skin is still green. Surely you can do something about it? You are so strong!

Just think good thoughts and it will go away. And you are saying "but my skin is green!" and people say "oh you are just being dramatic! Take these pills, these shots, it will go away. Go on this special skin regime, it worked for my sister."
and it doesn't. Now you are really really bright green. You stand out in a crowd.

You feel so internally defeated by the green skin, and you are try to go on with your life and live normally, but you can't get away from the green yourself. It is on your mind all the time. You begin to only see yourself in terms of the green, and it becomes the defining factor of who you are. You forget that you are so much more.

Eventually you learn to live with your bright green skin, feeling different than everyone else, but pretending that you aren't. You start a "green skin power" group so you can raise your self esteem. You find other green skinners so you can unite because no one else understands what it feels like to have such green skin and no choice in the matter.

Some surgeons are doing skin transplants but you realize that this is your lot. You are going to make the best of it, and learn to live a full life with this green skin.

You can't hide it no matter what you do. And if you touch anything green, everyone stares at you as if THAT is the whole reason you are green. But it isn't. They don't understand. It's some silly little microscopic virus that you breathed in one day and wham...you turned green, but no one really believes that virus is real either, and you can't really prove it.

And no one cares, or listens, or is finding a cure because all it does is turns you green, and green doesn't kill you. Or does it?