Bill Murray's Nagging Cold

I wonder how Bill Murray would have managed in 'Groundhog Day' if he'd had a terrible cold like I do? 

For those who haven't seen the film, Murray plays a weatherman who gets stranded in a small town on Groundhog Day and keeps waking up on the same day. After initially getting frustrated, then mischievous, and later suicidal at his never-ending torment, he eventually decides to use his time to better himself and come to the aid of everyone in the town, and to fall in love with Andie McDowell, which eventually lifts the curse for him and he wakes up the next day.

But if he'd had the same nagging cold as I do, with a sore throat and runny nose, and little inclination to do anything whatsoever, I wonder if he would ever escape. I'm not saying a cold is any kind of life-threatening illness or anything, but it just seems to kill any motivation, and makes you feel just ill enough not to be able to function well enough. Bill Murray's day would probably end up something like this; 

He would wake up every morning with tired eyes and a slight headache and lay in bed all morning. He would likely phone in sick for his midday piece to camera in front of the weather-predicting groundhog, therefore never meeting the love interest or any other of characters he befriends and who changes his fortune. He would watch whatever rubbish was on telly until mid-afternoon. Later on, he may start to feel a little better so gets up and showers and gets dressed. He decides to make an effort to go out in the evening for a little while to try to be sociable, but ends up just in the corner of the pub on his own and then leaves after one. He struggles to sleep that night because of a blocked nose, but eventually manages to drop off and wakes up at 6.00am once again to the grating sound of Sonny and Cher. And then the same thing happens all over again. Any progress he made with the cold getting better towards the end of the day is instantly lost. 

In the last couple of days I have acted exactly like Bill Murray with a nagging cold. I have done little, felt like doing less, and have done a lot of complaining about. Unlike Bill Murray with a nagging cold, mine will likely get better at some point in the next couple of days and I will have the power to break the daily cycle. And that is surely a reason to be cheerful.