I am tired of being without air conditioning when it is almost 100 degrees outside.
Our kids are looking hot and tired. My daughter is sweating. My dog is panting. The old men are all fanning themselves and dreaming about an air conditioner. It is the young men who are the worse for wear, though, because they have never lived without modern HVAC. the youngest of the men is sick of being without power – refrigeration and air conditioning. It is cold and we have no heater in January. The little children are shivering in their shirt sleeves. My people, some of them, have run away to the more modern apartment complexes to get access to good water, water heaters, and a/c. No one knows where they are–perhaps they will never return. I want to have time to enjoy time with my children and see how many I can laugh with. Maybe I shall find them among the people who go to the shelter in search of a shower and air conditioning. Hear me, my friends. I am tired. My heart is ill and depressed. From this time forward, I will go without AC no more forever. This is my solemn pledge to myself and to my people. When you live in a world without air conditioning in the summer or a heater in the winter, you are making yourself unnecessarily suffer. Suffering for absolutely no reason by taking away common conveniences like heating and cooling is just being ungrateful. When we live with careful attention to what we do, that is good, but when we suffer just for sympathy, that is a cry for attention.