Things People Who are Always Cold Will Understand

Have you always been cold? You're scratching your head at the moment trying to remember the last time you felt warm when just sitting. You have no such memory. Being stationary translates to being cold, in your head. You feel like Scooby Doo being chased by a ghoul (with a wintry face and a wintry beard) each time you imagine winter coming.

Some day, you know that you will try your utmost to raise more awareness about people feeling cold and uncomfortable at all times, because people just don't take it seriously enough.

Here's to all the people who do nothing but shiver in double layers all year round.

It's always annoying that no one really loves you enough to switch off the fan. It's usually a passive-aggressive display of power between the person who keeps switching it on at work or school, and you.

You are a brotherhood of people who are always called 'old'. Your heart goes out to all the young people who are called old just like you.

No matter which season, ladies, but shorts are not an option for you. You laugh at the idea of people suggesting shorts for you to buy. Not happening, no. Not even tights. But someone gifting you a sweater is welcome, because they know what they need to give you to keep you happy. God bless them.

There's this thing about exercising. You dread it more than normal people do, and not for the same reasons. Sweating after exercising makes you feel ultra-cold. Curse the drafts that wade through your armpits.

Women who are always cold are especially lucky because they can legitimately ask guys/boyfriends for jackets, which everyone knows is an unspoken agreement to keep it for a few weeks. Or hope they forget about their jacket and let you keep it. Boys, we'll make sure those of you who feel cold all the time will get jackets too.

You dread the idea of Russia or Antarctica. Reading Russian novels makes you feel cold.

You bless people who leave their seats nice and toasty when you sit on them. (Not applicable for the toilet seat.....you'd rather suffer through a cold toilet seat).

There are so many pairs of socks in your house that others freely borrow from you, and besides, you never lose pairs. Only people who do not need socks to keep themselves from dying, lose socks.

You've often tried to start frantically moving and jumping around looking like a crazed baboon on steroids when no one is looking because you want to get warm at the expense of cooling down in two minutes. At which point, your sweat makes you shiver worse than before.

You have often looked online regarding your little.....quirk, the result being you thought you have either hypothyroidism, osteoporosis, anorexia, diabetes, anemia, Hashimoto's disease, or renal cell cancer. (sorry if you got the idea to look online from here and are forever paranoid due to this article. Beg pardon).

(Stereotypical Frozen joke alert) You'd probably personally kill Elsa for causing a perpetual winter in Arendale, which is like your worst nightmare.

You would not mind settling down somewhere in the tropics if someone asked you to. It's always so cold wherever you live that people around you mistake you for the fragile old man from that cute movie, Amelie.

You cannot stop singing Kate Bush's song about Wuthering Heights ...(?) "I'm..so cohohohold let me in-a your windohohoho".

People ask you whether you've put on weight each time they meet you. They cannot for the life of them fathom that you have inner wear on in the summer. Your tights peep through all your ripped jeans, and you've completely stopped buying pretty stuff, because no one will see your comfortable, soup-stained tee-shirt under your three warm layers.

It's just that you've never had a cold bath, except by surprise when you turned the wrong tap and received a headful of ice that ruined your whole day.

It takes you so much time to dress and undress because of all those layers that you are taking off, that people get impatient waiting for you. There was this one time your entire family missed a flight...

You could never work with full concentration at work because of the air conditioner settings. You look like you're decked for Christmas and a stuffed turkey for Thanksgiving. Each time someone at the office teases you, you go temporarily deaf.

There's such a huge collection of jackets at your place because those are the only things you invest in these days. You really don't like it when you forget your jackets in strange places because you took your jackets (yes, plural) off. Because now you have to buy new ones.

...(they're kidding, right? You still have never bothered to find out whether those cold washrooms are where you're expected to go, because you know you're never going to an ice bar anyway).

You dread wind. Or even drafts. Hot or cold doesn't matter. If there's a window around, it's meant to be closed. Windows are only for the views, not fresh air. Each time someone enters your room, they hurry out because it's just always too damn hot.

You still love ice cream and everyone always asks you why you eat it if you're cold. Who doesn't love ice cream? With sprinkles, please.