People say the weather does not change people's personalities. But anyone who has lived through extreme heat waves knows that is not entirely true.
Hot weather makes emotions fragile. A normal sentence can easily become annoying. A small thing can easily become annoying. Arguments that could have been overlooked suddenly become longer. People become less patient with others and sometimes even with themselves.
Painter Ta Luu when he was alive once said the famous saying of a great writer whom he remembers as Nguyen Tuan, although he could not verify it, "It's so hot that male and female must be apart". It sounds like a joke, but it's a very real truth.
When the temperature rises, even the distance between two people can be affected. Not because love is over, but simply because everyone is struggling with their own fatigue. Hot weather has the ability to paralyze emotions in a very special way. It makes people no longer interested in talking, not wanting to think too much.
But, summer is also teaching people very unique lessons. On the harshest sunny days, people suddenly realize how simple and small happiness is sometimes. Is a sudden breeze blowing through the window, a glass of cool water after a long journey, or just a little shade of green trees on the sidewalk. Normal things that no one pays attention to suddenly become real joy.
Winter makes people crave warmth. Summer makes people grateful for coolness. If there were no boiling days, perhaps we would never fully understand the value of a first summer rain. Many times, the hottest and most suffocating periods in the soul are when people learn a lot about themselves. We know where the limit of endurance lies, what is really necessary and who is still by our side when everything becomes uncomfortable and harsh.
Summer will also pass. Record heat waves will also recede into memory like many previous summers. But after all those days when the sun seemed to melt the world, we understand that life has two sides. And after the difficult, harsh days, there may be good days.
He told her to go to the beach this summer, but before she could go, the heat was gone, and it rained again. Looking at her sad face, he suddenly realized that there are things that are meaningless if not done at the right time.
