Summer Blasphemy

I will now make my self guilty of committing blasphemy. I will say that I do not like the Swedish summer!

This is absolutely not accepted to say! All Swedes are supposed to love the Swedish summer as if it were religion. And I do love the Swedish summer! Maybe the problem is that I actually love it too much. I do love the long light summer nights, when it never gets dark. I like the sun and the warmth; I like spending time outdoor and love the more relaxed attitudes of the Swedes in summer. How could I but love all those things as I hate the darkness and the cold of the long boring winters?!

Maybe that is exactly the problem. I love it so much because I know what I have to deal with the rest of the year. What makes it a problem is that it is so precious and so short. The Swedish summer is, even when it is good, rather short, and too often it is not very good at all. Last year it was all rain and cold. So far this year it has been very warm and sunny and nice for weeks, but then immediately one fear that “this was it” this was all the summer we got, and I was working!! The shortness and unpredictability of the Swedish summer make it completely stressful. Every day that is sunny and warm that one do not use, which you don’t spend outside doing nice things is a lost day. And all those light summer nights make me stressed. They are so nice; I would like to stay awake and outside all night, but you just can not, you still have to get some sleep. It all just makes me stressed.

If one only could be sure that every summer had a certain number of nice days it would be easier to relax; now one has to live as if every nice day was the last one. Very stressful!! As I have always said; I find the change of seasons highly overestimated. I believe a climate like the Thai climate would suit me just fine. It is 30 degrees all year round, sometimes a little more rain and sometimes little less. And the sun rises at six every morning and sets at six in the evening. I think that would be perfect for me. Maybe it is just because my mood and my temperament is so volatile in itself that I don’t need any extra rupture caused by the climate…