WEEK THIRTEEN DISCUSSION BOARD FOUR STRANGE DAYS

TRANSFORMATIONS

          Frosty the Snowman is living in Miami and the story is not as far fetched as you might think.  Frosty needed to  lose weight, he knew perfectly well.  The consequences of his plan did not occur to him though.  The carrot nose was unbecoming and it was impossible to breathe, children would snap it off from time to time and it was frustrating. He would adapt to some recent change, start accepting himself for what he was and wham, a kid would swoop down on him and change his buttons, nose, button eyes, or one would just fall off when he started to ice over.  He wasn't happy with who he was, maybe he never had been.  He made his way to the nearest road and began a hitchhiking odyssey.  The trip south enhanced his physique, with the warmer temperatures the excess body volume began to decrease.  When he arrived at the gorgeous Florida Keys he could go no further and piled out of the car that had carried him to his new home.  He carelessly said goodbye to his travel companions and set out to make a new life for himself.  He rented a condo with a pool and jacuzzi in downtown Miami but he wasn't interested in living in the condo.  He rented that out on Airbnb and accommodated himself in the jacuzzi.  He was just in view of the infinity pool on the condo premises and behind that he could faintly see the ocean, it was beautiful.  As he began to melt, he noticed how he felt lighter and more free than ever before.  The jacuzzi seemed natural to him, he took up the space that he needed, he had gone from solid to liquid form and his new image was appealing and freeing.  He stayed in the jacuzzi, new water was occasionally added in the summer when a bit too much evaporated, that was inevitable, but it became him and he felt reborn.  The trend that  Olaf began with his own personal snowy cloud seemed a ridiculous scheme, one of those things that we do because it is conventional.  Society tells us that such and such a strategy is necessary for our well being, but it traps us in our limited expectations and Frosty could see that now.  His new form brought spontaneity to his life, gave him limitless potential and he started thinking differently. His former self seemed a far off dream and he planned his new life accordingly.  He wanted to get married and have children, no one would have accepted that when he was a snowman.  He felt light headed and began to dream beyond the clichès, he wanted a degree in psychology.  He would be a psychoanalyst and help others, snowmen and non snowmen, to reach their higher potential, their greater selves. He would make a difference in the world.  His former shape never would have permitted him this kind of life, nor would he have been able to conceive such plans in his frozen state.  Miami had given him life and a future, it literally transformed him.  His family would live here, he would raise his children to live with the confidence he had worked so hard to achieve.  Never had a snowman been so creative and free to become whatever he wanted to be without constraints and criticism, without suffering the glares of strangers for his lifestyle and choices.  He was finally free.