Too much of a good thing?

Yesterday was the hottest 6^th July since1991. The city has issued a heat wave warning. A heat wave warning is issued when the temperature is above 32 degrees for three consecutive days. It was the third day of that. I heard everybody saying oh it’s so hot.

In Canada, we get three months of summer and we wait for these. But the moment the mercury touches 30, we start complaining, ‘oh its too much, it’s a very hot summer and so on. Is it too much of a good thing? After all, we are not a tropical country where the mercury is always above 30 and humidity is high the year round.

We are a cold country and these few days of summer are precious. So why complain? Humans are never satisfied with what they have. In a way this is good. It is this dissatisfaction that has led to so many inventions and in the growth of civilization. Man was not satisfied with living in caves so he built houses. He was not satisfied with being a hunter so he grew crops.

But does it end somewhere? Can we for a few days forget our complaining and just enjoy this warm weather? I bet, if it rains even on two weekends back to back, we will start cribbing, ‘oh the weekends are all wet. We cannot go out etc.’ Instead of enjoying the trails, pools, beaches and parks near us, we complain about hot weather. Then in October we will start complaining about how short the summer was and how we could not do all that we wanted to do.

Choose your misery now. Do you want this hot weather, which allows you to go out in just shorts and t-shirt or would you choose winter when you have to wear layers and parkas to go out? Do you want to do Kayaking, Canoeing, swimming, trekking, or would you have cold, dark days? Would you choose BBQs and pool parties or get shut inside your house for 6 long months?

Choose if you have too much of a good thing

So be it!!!