Okay so… I love starting off a thought with, “okay so…” It makes me feel like I’m giving off a super serious vibe and at the same time I get an extra moment to figure out what the heck I’m about to say. Casual Chadi, back at it again.
Okay so, today I want to talk about the weather. Not like, the talk about the weather that every person on earth has every single day while making small talk, but more big picture. (That said, it was really beautiful outside today, like over the top perfect 11/10 everything). Big picture: I want to talk about the weather as marker of time.
In some places (looking at you Rabat), the weather is the same pretty much all the time. Something about that predictability is appealing. You know what you’re going to get. It helps create lasting routines that maybe make you more productive or focused. It makes sense, I get it. One less potentially stressful thing out of the equation.
In most places the weather changes with the seasons. Basically, summer is warmer and winter is colder. It’s these fluctuations in the weather that add drama to the small talk, “Did you hear it’s going to be hot on Thursday?!” “What?! It was cold today, I can’t believe it’s going to be hot already!” Etc., etc., you get the idea.
What the changes really provide is a sort of guiding force into the future. Today I just felt something in the air that let me know time was marching on. It’s hard to put into words exactly but there was just a shift in the air that you could feel. It’s the same thing I felt every July at some point.
Maybe I’ve done a terrible job of explaining it and I sound like a crazy person. (My introduction and the whole “okay so” thing probably didn’t help my case). Or maybe you do get it and you know exactly what I’m talking about. You’ve felt it before on one of those July days. There’s another one in November that ushers in the winter, and another in May on those early days of spring. It’s nature’s implicit way of telling us that time is going to keep on moving along whether we like it or not.
That connection we have to nature is one of the most special things we get to experience as human beings. On days like this I remember to take a deep breath and be thankful I get to experience it. This little life we have is really something.
Okay so, today I want to talk about the weather. Not like, the talk about the weather that every person on earth has every single day while making small talk, but more big picture. (That said, it was really beautiful outside today, like over the top perfect 11/10 everything). Big picture: I want to talk about the weather as marker of time.
In some places (looking at you Rabat), the weather is the same pretty much all the time. Something about that predictability is appealing. You know what you’re going to get. It helps create lasting routines that maybe make you more productive or focused. It makes sense, I get it. One less potentially stressful thing out of the equation.
In most places the weather changes with the seasons. Basically, summer is warmer and winter is colder. It’s these fluctuations in the weather that add drama to the small talk, “Did you hear it’s going to be hot on Thursday?!” “What?! It was cold today, I can’t believe it’s going to be hot already!” Etc., etc., you get the idea.
What the changes really provide is a sort of guiding force into the future. Today I just felt something in the air that let me know time was marching on. It’s hard to put into words exactly but there was just a shift in the air that you could feel. It’s the same thing I felt every July at some point.
Maybe I’ve done a terrible job of explaining it and I sound like a crazy person. (My introduction and the whole “okay so” thing probably didn’t help my case). Or maybe you do get it and you know exactly what I’m talking about. You’ve felt it before on one of those July days. There’s another one in November that ushers in the winter, and another in May on those early days of spring. It’s nature’s implicit way of telling us that time is going to keep on moving along whether we like it or not.
That connection we have to nature is one of the most special things we get to experience as human beings. On days like this I remember to take a deep breath and be thankful I get to experience it. This little life we have is really something.
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