Summer Days

People are excited. Every day is warmer than the last and the sun stays out longer and brighter, everyone is revelling in it. Girls are making their presence known and keeping their temperatures down by sporting the tiniest of shorts and spaghetti string tops, bright colours are everywhere. Every guy has dug out last years shorts and thongs to help keep himself cool.

Everybody goes on about how beautiful the days are, and how wonderful the weather is. Everybody is looking forward to the next hot day on the calendar, and one dip in the mercury is greeted with moans and complaints. I’m guilty of it myself, even though I know that the moment it gets above 30 degree’s I will suffer and suffer until it’s cold again, my blood is too thick for this weather. Summer. It must be amazing…

But it isn’t. By the end of the year everyone will be complaining. Everything is hot, all of the time, cars are hot, streets are hot, sand is hot. Air conditioners will strain the power grid to breaking point, causing cycling blackouts to handle the load. The dream days spent sunning on the beach will be forgotten, because it is simply too hot to lie in direct sunlight, and nobody wants to spend all day submerged in dirty sea water.

People will be dreaming of Winter again, every time the temperature starts dipping lower and lower there will be celebration, and much discussion. People will appreciate being able to go out without smothering themselves in an inch thick layer of SPF30 and burning themselves just trying to operate their car.

It’s a classic case of ‘The grass is greener on the other side’, except it shows how short-term our minds are working. We might dream for years and years about that greener grass and never try and explore it, or we might jump head first in and regret it for even longer. But the seasons continue to change every single year, it’s a constant cycle that we all go through time and time again, yet still we yearn for something different, for the world to be exactly as it isn’t right now.

Every country bumpkin day-dreams about a busier life, and every city slicker day-dreams about the quiet country lifestyle. People who work 9-5 jobs yearn for a break from the cycle, and those working shifts wish they had that simplified routine. It keeps us sane to be able to uncomplicate the world we live in with a two dimensional paradise in our thoughts, it breaks the monotony of our lives with a touch of freedom.

It is why we have to dream.