Today is blistering hot. There are no words for it. At the start of the day, I thought it would be a good day to have a bath, but I’m really double think if I would want to do that later today.
If I were in army again, and it were this hot, there would be a different range of things to be thinking about. First, they would keep you under the shade and have a ton of water going through you. They would make you drink water bottle after bottle after bottle, in the name of hydration. It works, just that it feels mighty uncomfortable to be hot, and swollen with water.
The next thing that would happen is constant breaks. They would keep making you take a break. There’s literal timings that they are forced to follow, and then you’ll just be moving from place to place in the heat, with all your gear on. It sucks.
Then after all that’s done, you sit in your sweaty fatigues, and just wait for the time to shower. I hate that part the most. I literally would just sit in the middle of my bunk in my underwear, waiting for the time to go. I’m hot, sticky, and so uncomfortable. I hate that feeling.
Anyway, today’s heat definitely reminds me of that, and I’m not looking forward to doing that any time soon next week. There are days when I get such bad headaches from the heat, and all those things really just pile up one on top of another.
So glad that I’m in my room, in the shade, with the fan pointing at me. It would be nice to have air-conditioning on, but this will do for now.