Let's be real: being sick is the absolute worst, no matter what you have. It could be as simple as a cough to something as severe as the plague -- either way, it sucks. You never truly realize how thankful you are for being able to clearly breathe through your nose and talk without getting an itchy sensation in your throat until you're sick.

1. Constantly coughing into your arms, shirt, hands, knees, hat, plate of food, on your friends, on strangers… basically everywhere

2. Trying to see how long you can hold your coughs in before exploding with boisterous noises

Then there’s that awkward moment when someone is talking to you, and you have to cough, so the sound of your yakking interrupts the conversation

3. And the same thing applies for sneezing

4. Examining the masterpiece of snot that just exploded from your nose

You're basically the next Van Gogh, but with your nose.

5. Always having to carry around a box of tissues with you everywhere you go

Oh, and hand sanitzer

6. And the bottoms of your sleeves are covered in crusty, dried snot for the times that you forgot to bring a tissue box

7. Being that one person during a test who aggravates everyone with constant coughing and sniffling

8. Constantly listening to your friends nagging you about staying away from them so you don't get your sick germs on them

9. Always debating whether or not you should blow your nose because you don’t want to annoy the people around you

10. Feeling mentally drained 24/7

11. Feeling like death after walking up the stairs

12. Your head feels like a hammer is pounding on it and you’re waiting for it to explode

13. Trying to remember a time when you could breathe through your nose and not get that itchy sensation in your throat

14. Losing your voice and sounding like a pubescent boy

15. Overdosing on cough drops

16. And finally, having to constantly listen to your friends complaining about how you got them sick even though you didn't