As the day progressed the weather got warmer. This morning the weather person said it was 67 degrees and tonight it was 87 degrees. As I was working the garden this afternoon I could feel the weather get warmer. As the weather got warmer I got more and more tired. Finally I had to come in and drink something cold and rest. The heat made me beat.
My wife also has been very tired recently. I blame the heat although she works in an air conditioned library and comes home to an air conditioned house. Over the years I have noticed my body tire on warm and humid days in late spring.
I also noticed that these days when people work on some issue like to end the war in Iraq or Afghanistan and they are not successful, they get tired and go to another issue. In the 60’s we just kept going, be it on civil rights or the Vietnam War, even when we failed. There was the belief that if we were on the right side and just persisted we would win. Nowadays when the heat goes up and we get tired of an issue we just move on. There are now so many issues, causes like war or unjust situations, that we have no trouble finding another one. Also in the 60’s leaders like Martin Luther King saw the connection between issues like civil rights and the war in Vietnam. Nowadays I hear people say that is ‘your issue’, and I got ‘my issue.’
The sun and heat can tire us but it cannot stop us from going on. We only can do this. So too, the lack of victory cannot make us give up on an issue. Only we can do that. To tire is human but to give up is a choice.
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