is it warm or is it cold?

Walking on the beach early this morning I realized something sort of profound.  I've noticed this before, but had not thought of it in this context.  If you walk on the beach in the heat of the day, and allow the waves to wash up around your feet and calves, the water may feel cool, even cold.  The beach I walk on is in a large bay off the Pacific Ocean, it is warm enough that humpback whales come here each winter to give birth, raise their young and mate. But it is not warm like the Caribbean.  Water temperature here is around  25 Celsius or 78 Fahrenheit.  When the ambient temperature is 30 Celsius or 86 Fahrenheit the water feels cool.  And here is the surprise.  For a morning walk, when the sun has not yet hit the beach, the nights cool down, and the temperature at 8:30 am might be around 20 Celsius or 68 Fahrenheit, or lower... So when one walks the beach in the early morning, the night cooled sand is cold, the water warmed sand is warm, and the water feels very warm indeed.  Here is the profound thing.  It is all about perspective.  The ocean did not change, it is still the same ocean, the same water, the same temperature.  Depending on your perspective it can feel cool, even cold, or truly warm and warming.  The next time you feel cool or cold about something, think about your perspective.  If you change it, does it change how you feel?