Warm pain

Usually, we think cold weather as the associated with sadness and melancholy, and on the contrary, the warm one as the related with happiness and joviality… However, this association usually comes from a northern stereotype. In the convulsive and complex contexts of Latin America, we can deviate from this last correlation; it becomes a bidirectional one: the warmth is related to the extrovert, to kindness and to joviality, but simultaneously it is where and when pain, melancholy, violence, exile and loneliness happen. For an average Latin-American (excluding probably those who live in a mountain situated city, like La Paz, Bogotá or Quito or cities with differentiated seasons like Santiago or Buenos Aires, just to name the capitals), the experiences commonly associated with what it is merely named as “negative emotional experiences” like profound pain, loneliness, sadness happen in the middle of warm or even hot weathers.