the heat is on: matters of perspective

it's hot. it really is. (if i hear a paris hilton reference i am gonna...stick my tongue out at you )

we're right smack in the middle of summer, and most of us are frolicking in beaches, enjoying our summer destinations (whether provincial or international), enrolling ourselves in classes (academic or otherwise), and if you're in the trimestral system, still at school, studying for finals.

whatever. it's hot. no question about it.

we all have two options in reference to the sweltering, smoldering, sticky heat.

the easy option is whining and complaining about how hot it is. this option, though easy, seemingly non-problematic, and quite...natural, if i may say, already adds unnecessary stress to yourself. i don't need to explain, but didn't that old study say that frowning makes you exert 20 face muscles or something like that? i don't know about you, but i don't like how that sounds. it only means one thing: wrinkles. eeew.

the not-so-easy but more enjoyable option is looking at the sunny, brighter side of all this heat. cases in point-- summer fruits are yummy in season. i've never been much of a fruit-eater growing up, but thanks to my dad, i have no qualms eating baskets of fruit now. mangoes are yummier and waaay cheaper. (a friend told me that mangoes in his hometown sell for fifteen pesos a kilo. fifteen pesos! wow cubao.) and i've never appreciated pineapples but now, wow, i can eat them all day.

laundry gets dryer, quicker too. i did laundry yesterday morning and after lunch, voila! i was able to stash away my clean clothes in my drawer. this is such a great thing, especially if you really wanna wear that nice new blouse again.

and, hey, isn't beach-going/swimming/vacationing much more fun in summer? ang tragic naman if you booked your flight to bora right smack in the middle of june. it's so... novel-ish! hahaha! for the students: now's the time when school's out, you can get to go where you want to go, and get yourself revved up for another school year! if you're working naman, you can get to take a leave from work, relax with family and/or friends, and go back to work with that nice tan! or rosy cheeks if you went to baguio!

there is more to life than our present circumstances. we may whine, complain, and moan about what we don't have, but we still have something left, don't we?  

let's look beyond our seemingly sad, sorry state and be grateful for the little things that life has to offer!