I have a feeling. The cold has frozen my brain. From the inside and the outside.It is a solid mass of hard cold rock with a thick layer of snow on the outside. Enveloping this layer is a semi solid water bag with tiny bubbles of frozen air too cold to move freely. On the extreme outside is a thin layer of ice which can be cracked with a soft poke of the finger. The skull doesn't exist, I think. I can't think actually. Severe weather conditions inside my head have made it a little difficult to make sense of the world. Everything is foggy, smoggy and sleepy.
It has been four years since I last spent substantial time in this wintered city. I am still trying to find traces of November romance in adverse January. Having returned after so long, I am also being returned to some thoughts, theories and experiences which have been timelessly typical to Delhi winters. They are as follows:
1. People who claim to bathe everyday or bathe in cold water are liars.
2. It is very important to spit out the green phlegm that winter cough and cold throws up in your nose and throat. I know it is very cold and you would rather park your ass in your bed and blanket and swallow the mucus back, too lazy to throw it out at the moment. But you just have to battle that feeling Every Single Time!
3. Don't feel shy blowing your nose in public. Remember to use paper tissues. No sweater sleeve please.
4. Make use of bonfires. The trick it to light up post midnight. Stand really close facing your palms to it. Once the front half of your body is warmed up, jump around to heat up the back. Switch back when required. Don't try too often or too fast, you may feel dizzy and fall into the bonfire. (remember to trip over the beautiful embers though)
5. Do not try to weigh yourself in the winter. The only way to know your reality is to stand naked on the weighing machine, early in the morning, right after taking a hot water shower.
Among other things:
6. Cuddle up shady with the person next to you. Body warmth does wonders.
7. Find ways of keeping the toilet pot warm.
8. Find an electric hot water bottle. Don't share.
8. Fight with your roommates, friends, siblings over hot water they used which you had heated for hours.
9. Count the number of chai/coffee cups you consume in a day.
10.Talk about the cold like you talk about the heat in the summer
11. Curse the sun. Love the sun.
12, Take care of your frozen brain.
13. Enjoy the song:
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