Fraying Edges Heat and Exhaustion
Jun 15th, 2008 by zania
I was talking yesterday about how being an over achiever can lead to stress and exhaustion, but there is something else which is making me hover on the verge of exhaustion at the moment, and that is the heat.
A few days ago I wrote about how a sunny day can make you feel good and that still applies. I love sunshine and bright skies; they cheer me up no end and help me cope much better with chronic depression.
But the warm sunny days have rapidly turned to something else. The temperature is rising day by day and the nights are hot too.
Heat can be exhausting. Taking our dogs for their walks in the hills is now a matter of dodging from one shady spot to another (and they are few and far between). None of us feel like walking quickly. To do so would sap all our energy.
Sitting working on my PC gets exhausting too; the heat seems to frazzle my braincells and I cannot think as quickly as I normally do. We have the air con going constantly, but moving to a room without it is a task none of us wish to endure, which makes us all very lethargic.
As I type this post, our dogs are sprawled out on the couch, soaking up the draft from the air con. Even the word ‘walk’, which usually makes them leap about with excitement, doesn’t impress them that much. They know it means plodding through the searing heat and panting rapidly to try to keep cool. All they want at the moment is shade, an air con ‘breeze’ and a good supply of drinking water. To me that seems quite reasonable right now!
The summer heat will be here for months now, punctuated by the odd ‘tormenta’ (thunder storm). We will get used to it. We have before and we will again. And after all, we wanted to live in the sunshine didn’t we?
But getting used to this type of heat takes time and I still have a great deal of work which must be done.
Nevertheless, I think the best thing we could do right now is to stroll round to the village bar and sit under their air con, sipping a long, cool cerveza… or two.
One thing I can say though, and that is right now I may be on the verge of heat exhaustion, but I am not depressed. Can’t be all bad, can it? 
