Welcome back to Tea with Liya! On this cold February morning, I took a little time to think about the coming summer. A great song that references this hot and bright season would be Scott Joplin's "Pineapple Rag." I hope you enjoy listening to this bouncy song. Can sound waves make you feel warmer?
Listen to the song here
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If you're like me, pineapples probably remind you of a definite event during the course of the year: summer.
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Or perhaps rain is on your list of summer memories - clouds that cover the sky for days on end, or fierce torrents that arrive and depart in a matter of minutes.
Summer could be the peak point of an exciting year, or it could be the start of a new one. But, one thing's clear right now: it'll be a long time before summer starts again.
You can choose to either depress yourself with the weather you have now, or look forward to your favorite season of the year.
Some of you, for example, might really not like winter. You might say that the year would be better without ice, wind chills, and snow. Others might say that if winter is going to be a part of the year, it should be "real winter."
"If it's going to get cold, then it should actually get cold. We need something to look forward to, not just a 3-degree increase at the beginning of March, don't we?
"In the same way, shouldn't summer be hot and sunny like we all claim it to be? We don't want the only difference between summer and fall to be the leaves."
That might work in a place where seasons change a lot, but what if you went to the equator? Perhaps some months would be wetter than others, but there wouldn't be as much of a difference between winter and summer.
If you don't like winter, the equator would be a perfect place for you. You wouldn't find much snow there, and I doubt there's any at all.
But, if everyone packed their bags and headed to the largest latitude line on the surface of the Earth, we would have no one to tell us how seasons change further away from it. Our different perspectives on seasons would be gone, and the equator would quickly become an overpopulated place.
Even if you don't like the seasons you have now, remember that everyone's perspective is different. There isn't any "perfect" summer. There's a reason why, when you write a book report, you're told to write about the setting - because settings are different.
No one said that any setting is objectively better than another one - they're just different.
In the same way, we can't objectively determine whether a $2 pineapple is better than a $0.50 one. It's definitely better for the corporation if pineapples are being sold for a higher price. Meanwhile, customers are looking for low prices. There's no way of knowing if the price actually determines the quality.
And, there's no way of knowing if 30-degree weather is better than -4. In fact, you could even read 30 degrees as below freezing.
There's also no way of knowing if this song is better than the next one you'll listen to.
In order to find out, you'll just have to keep filling your teacup with music.
~Liya
Summer could be the peak point of an exciting year, or it could be the start of a new one. But, one thing's clear right now: it'll be a long time before summer starts again.
You can choose to either depress yourself with the weather you have now, or look forward to your favorite season of the year.
Some of you, for example, might really not like winter. You might say that the year would be better without ice, wind chills, and snow. Others might say that if winter is going to be a part of the year, it should be "real winter."
"If it's going to get cold, then it should actually get cold. We need something to look forward to, not just a 3-degree increase at the beginning of March, don't we?
"In the same way, shouldn't summer be hot and sunny like we all claim it to be? We don't want the only difference between summer and fall to be the leaves."
That might work in a place where seasons change a lot, but what if you went to the equator? Perhaps some months would be wetter than others, but there wouldn't be as much of a difference between winter and summer.
If you don't like winter, the equator would be a perfect place for you. You wouldn't find much snow there, and I doubt there's any at all.
But, if everyone packed their bags and headed to the largest latitude line on the surface of the Earth, we would have no one to tell us how seasons change further away from it. Our different perspectives on seasons would be gone, and the equator would quickly become an overpopulated place.
Even if you don't like the seasons you have now, remember that everyone's perspective is different. There isn't any "perfect" summer. There's a reason why, when you write a book report, you're told to write about the setting - because settings are different.
No one said that any setting is objectively better than another one - they're just different.
In the same way, we can't objectively determine whether a $2 pineapple is better than a $0.50 one. It's definitely better for the corporation if pineapples are being sold for a higher price. Meanwhile, customers are looking for low prices. There's no way of knowing if the price actually determines the quality.
And, there's no way of knowing if 30-degree weather is better than -4. In fact, you could even read 30 degrees as below freezing.
There's also no way of knowing if this song is better than the next one you'll listen to.
In order to find out, you'll just have to keep filling your teacup with music.
~Liya
You make some really good points about the importance of diversity when it comes to setting, great song as well!
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