pauses.

People walk slower, talk slower, and even breathe slower when the world around them seems to be spinning at a decreased velocity. For that very reason, non-ruminative individuals even seem to believe that time matters less, as if time could be reduced to a quantifiable, qualitative, tangible concept. Change is the motor of time, as they say, for when things seem to be changing time seems to be going by faster than usual. But summer is approaching and with it the inevitability of frozen moments, pauses, and lags probably caused by the scorching temperature that renders the body immobile and the mind inoperative. But is it really because of the temperature that people cease to be active, productive and effective? Seems like an unconvincing excuse. I admit, I have been a perpetrator of such reasoning: these past few days I have remained at home and have justified it by blaming the weather. A human idiosyncrasy: blaming external agents for our internal shortcomings. If only we could control those forces and mold them to our likings. But alas, everyone knows that even the weather(hu)man cannot control the weather, which maybe calls for a redefinition and a revised understanding of the motivations behind such accusations.