Sonia Patel

“I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall ceased to feel” from the Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. As the quote from Casanova alludes that we come onto mental recognition at a young age and much like the first stage of water before it becomes a solid, the universal stage, ice. Ice represents me. Ice embodies what you are in the sense that it can stand alone (independent); towering alone as a glacier or can work together to perform a task like cooling a cup. With ice, you can be a little of everything: solid, liquid, and gas- the perfect substance. Ice is flexible no matter how your environment changes. It is able to adapt to the changes around. I am ice. Unconventionally, the beginnings of ice and life share an astonishing amount of similarities that cannot be overlooked. From the moment it is consolidated into a single entity to the point of its dissolution. Some believe that everything has a purpose, if we realize this to ice as it dissolved it assumes its purpose. I can’t even begin to fathom the conclusion of my proceeding through life as I am still a cube of ice yet to be dispensed out into the world.