After a very long break of semester, I flew back overseas. That night, I was heading back to my campus at 02.30 A.M. from the international airport.
It was a freaking air conditioner ever. I barely let myself asleep due to the very low temperature inside the bus. I was feeling like a frozen fish inside a fridge. Like I killed myself slowly, too cold like winter. I don’t even know how winter really is though.
It was almost totally dark and I just could see some shadows of the passenger seats that were formed by minimum beaming light from outside the bus through the window.
One question kept spinning around on my head: “Are we there yet?” Again and again I had to say no to my own question. It seemed like a 5 or 6 hours journey where it only took 3 hours. I remembered a motivational quote “You can change what you feel by changing what you think” , and I hardly try to apply it in this freezing situation. I was thinking how to change what I think to make me feel at least a little bit warmer.
Frankly, there’s no use at all of doing such thing, because none of my thinking could change my freezing body. I bet, that quote is talking about a feeling that related to emotion, not a feeling attached on your body. Do you agree with me?
Suddenly, a short video came out on my mind. It was a very nice winter in Europe that I just watched on the airplane. People were ice-skating on a huge-wide area of ice. After a while, I realized it was a frozen beach. I was so excited when I was watching it. I even imagined that one of those people on the ice were me. With a thick jacket, long pants, and nice line-skate shoes I was skating on the frozen sea water. I was running around and around here and there, I was really delighted until I realized, “Wait a moment, if this weather could change the sea-water become a huge area of frozen ice, how cold is this? It must be below 0 degree Celcius.” Exactly at that time, I came back to my real body and real life that I’m not good enough in cold season, include being in this freaking-frozen bus.