Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Relativity

While in Pune, a couple of weeks ago when the temperature dropped below 10 celsius on a couple of occasions, I did experience a tinge of cold. Today in Iowa City, 2 degrees Fahrenheit seems reasonable. Theory of Relativity at play ??
Partly, maybe. In my recent encounters with extreme weather I realize that a lot depends on your mindset. When mentally you know it is going to be cold you automatically generate a kind of mechanism to fight it and hence Iowa City and Pune seem just as reasonable to the body.
Of course this assumes that the layers you put on are appropriate for the place and the time ...

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