Our minister always says that God puts you in the place that you are supposed to be, and it is we humans who choose to roam around the world. I was born in England, wet, damp, dreary England, land of indoor pools, indoor soccer, indoor cricket, indoor everything, green, cold, snowy England ................. my parents chose to transplant us all when I was just 8 years old, to this land of sunshine, braaivleis, and sweltering summers, hot Christmas's something that today 42 years later
I am still not used to ...................
Although I love the sun, and can understand why people in England get depressed when they have not seen it for month, I really just cannot cope with the heat and the older or should I say more mature, I get the more I feel the heat, people laugh when I tell them that one day I am going to self combust from the heat and the only thing that will be left of me will be a pair of smoking shoes.
The heat of a sweltering summer day is something I can pretty much do with out......... I hate the feelings of rivers of perspirations flowing down my back like the Vaal River in full flood...... I hate the feeling of melting makeup, as it slithers down my face............ I hate the fact that no matter how long I take doing my hair, it continues to stick to my head like a flat pancake ....................... I hate the fact that no matter how little clothes I wear at the end of the day I am still hot and sticky................... the problem is I think that you can dress up for winter, and as the day warms off you begin taking off the layers but there is no way you can dress down for summer........ because there is only so much skin that you can decently leave uncovered ................
NO amount of fans or air conditioning is enough to keep me cool ........ i was just not designed for this weather .................
I was designed to be in a cold place, with lots of rain, sleet and snow ...................
I love the early mornings in Summer when, before it is light i sit outside on my patio, having a cup of tea, blogging, and watch the sun come up.......... I love the cool of the Spring and Autumn mornings and evenings ................. but more than that I love the cold, crisp mornings of Winter, i love it when you breath out and your breath hangs in the air, like unspoken words, like a cloud of air , hovering about the ground, not knowing itself where it is supposed to go.........
I always tell people that I should have been born to a family of Eskimo's not only can I picture myself living in an igloo, cuddled under some animals fur, feeling all toasty , I really like the idea of whenever I want something to drink, I go outside and grab a glass full of snow, and make my own, natural slush puppie, straight from nature............ yes i know that God knew what he was doing when he gave me to a family in a cold, wet, snowy place................
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