My sweat smells bad !
- Andre Chen

- Sep 10
- 2 min read
I Sweat.

You think I sweat too much?
Damn right, I do.
Yesterday I arrive to the clinic and some dental nurses were complaining that I smelled awful 😂!!! Crazy thing
Yeah I mean I do sweat and actually there are some good reasons for that ! Times are not easy ….
I sweat from carrying boxes, from building clinics out of dust, from writing manuscripts at 2 a.m. when everyone else is sleeping. I sweat from trying to be the best in a world that doesn’t give you mercy.
I sweat for my three kids, for my wife, for the family that needs me present even when I’m broken. I sweat in hospitals, dragging my parents back from the edge when their hearts stop. That’s not just sweat — that’s tears mixed in.
And do I like the smell of sweat? No, I don’t. But life is so busy, so relentless, that half the time I don’t even notice it. I don’t walk into the clinic smelling like a Hugo Boss ad. I walk in smelling like someone who’s been in a fight all day, every day. Because I am in a fight.
So when the whispers come — “he smells like a pig,” “he’s sweaty,” “he’s not clean” — at first, I feel bad. It hits me. But then anger pops in my brain, and that anger doesn’t sit still. It transforms into kinetic energy, into action. That’s the fuel I run on.
The fuel to became and the fuel to fulfill !
Trump once told Zelenskyy his outfit wasn’t right for war. Guess what? When you’re fighting for your country, your family, your patients, your dreams — you don’t give a damn what you smell like. You care about surviving. You care about winning.
But after the anger comes something else.
A quiet moment. A breath. Acceptance.
Yes, I sweat. Well let’s change that.
So I accept it. I resign myself to it.
Because my sweat is my story. My mark. My way of proving that I lived every second without holding back.
This is my life. My war. My sweat.
And that was my day yesterday. I guess I’ll have to go to Hugo Boss, buy the latest perfume and a pair of shoes. A good excuse to take the kids along. Accept the critique, change what is wrong, and move on.
Speaking of sweeting how do you rehabilitate this case ? The lot of sweat …




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