COPE

 

How is the summer going? Hot enough for you? How are you coping?

Cranking up the AC and hoping the grid will hold? What if you don’t have AC? Sweat in the shade?

It is not as hot here as it is in some other places, but we should learn to adapt because we don’t want to give up our guilty pleasures. Maybe take a vacation?

Pack up your fossil fuel burning mobile machine and leave town for parts unknown. Now your home can sit empty without you around. Better get a service to cut the grass.

Traveling in a metal machine under the beating sun on a slab of highway will only make life more tense (windows rolled up or down). If you have to transfer to another carrier, park and unpack and try to see if your reservation is still vilate. Who is picking up your mail at home?

Once you meet your destination (whether a 5-star hotel or a cottage in the woods) do you stop and enjoy the view or take a nap from exhaustion? Did you leave the water running in the sink?

Unpacking is as strenuous as packing and whatever you are looking for you can’t find because (like moving) you put it in the other bag. Prepare yourself for your vacation!

The first prime directive is to eat. You’ve already stopped at every roadside junk food fine dining establishment, but do you continue with the established blain or experiment in the possibility of new taste and stomach upset. Who is checking on your dog back home?

Grab the kids, slather them with sunscreen, cover them with big hats and wander out on the hot sand or the tick infested wilderness. Either way you will become exhausted because you do not go to the gym enough. Now retreat to bug bites and sunburn to the AC? If you are at the beach and it rains…you have plenty of clothing that is made to get wet. If you in the forest with no wi-fi…you might as well go back home. Did you lock the back door?

Having a health emergency or an automotive break down just makes the vacation more memorable. Take lots of selfies and picts of the food you devoured so social media can share your experience. Haven’t seen any videos of people suffering from heat stroke, but maybe I’m on the wrong network?

The point is we all have to cope with our everyday existence. If the washer breaks down, we cope. If the roof leaks, we cope. If there is a stack of bills and $4 in the bank, we cope. If you daughter comes home and says she and her significant other are moving into the basement so she can have her baby, we cope. If we get fat, we cope. If our parents die (should be when), we cope. If we are kicked out of our home, we cope. If we are diagnosed with a stage 4 malady, we cope. If the election is upon us and the selections look disturbing, we cope. If there is a pothole in front of the house, we cope.

If it gets hotter than the hinges on the gates to hell, we cope.

No, this is no Ai or some bot, but just a human thought of what will be coming tomorrow.