Entry #4 - Warmer Weather, Warmer Hearts

As the seasons begin to change and the temperature gets warmer, there is a difference in the world. It's like comparing day and night.

In suburbia the difference is that you see people. You actually see them. You don't just see their car pulling into their drive way. Or the houselights on at night proving their existence. You see in flesh and bone that your neighbors still exist. After all you haven't seen them in, oh say five months or so.

But in the city, the change isn't in the peoples' existence. Like it or not people walk everywhere even during the bitter cold days. Most don't have a choice. The difference is in their face and their attitude. Now instead of scrunched up faces to decrease surface area absorbing the cold air, there's loose smiling faces with the sun reflecting in their eye. Instead of people rushing from one warm building to the next, people lallygag to take in as much sun as they can. (This often includes conversing with friends and coworkers; talking, laughing, and so on.)


It's as if people in suburbia hideout until they're that happy bubbly person that arm weather brings out. They conceal their dark and cold days away from public. This way their neighbors only know them when they're in a good mood.

In the city, there is no luxury of that type of privacy. Or is it a curse? People get to see the real you. All the time. Scrunched up and rushing, as well as happy and lallygaging. Where as in suburbia it is about selective appearance.


An interesting observation of climate and relational change. Enjoy this summer like weather everyone! 8)