[December 31st, Heavy Snow]
[I'm sick, very sick.]
[It's not a physical illness, but a mental one.]
[In the biology class I took in high school, it was said that people get fevers because white blood cells are killing viruses, a process that causes the body's temperature to rise. In the past, humans saw the fever as a disease, not the virus, because the virus is silent, and humans only know that a fever is uncomfortable.]
[Lying in the medical cabin, I began to have wild thoughts—so, is giving up the desire to survive considered a "disease"?]
[From the physiological perspective Acto taught me, survival is the most basic instinct of life. Every cell within us operates under precise regulation, following the directives of survival and reproduction. Mitochondria burn energy, DNA is responsible for repair, the immune system protects the body. The message to "stay alive" is a program inscribed in the deepest part of our soul.]
