The Colorado River mega-drought crisis has showed us how enormous that the climate change affect to people. It's not just happen only at a place, but it affects all regions around the world. If people don't change their attitude and their behavior to environment, they will have to face a lot of serious threat in future.

New vocabulary/ expressions I learned:
- mega-drought (n): đại hạn hán
- quench the thirst of (somebody) (IDM): làm dịu cơn khát
- reservoir (n): a natural or artificial lake where water is stored before it is taken by pipes to houses, etc: hồ chứa nước
- prompt (v): to make somebody decide to do something; to cause something to happen: dẫn đến 
- irrigate (v): to supply water to an area of land (irrigated land/crops): tưới tiêu

Most people think that going to work is not only to earn money for their needs in life but it also makes people feel valued, some think success at work mean success in life and happiness. But as I observe people surrounding me, I think having a job would help our mental state, or simply maintain a routine, even just having anything to do whether it's a true passion of us or not.

Laurel Coates, who is had been working for two years at a grocery store in California when pandemic began. She quitted her job and received unemployment insurance payments. She was good in finance situation, but she eventually missed her work because she need the social interaction, not just money. Finally, she decided to return to her job a year later. 

A college professor in Pennsylvania quitted his dream job to became a freelance writing. Everyday his wife went off to work and he stayed at home to write, but actually he spent a lot of time lying on the couch, while ideas, words and money came to him slowly. Then he thought he really need a job. After a year and a half, he returned to a familiar place: the classroom.

Like most children, who always have to go to school, adults lack alternative social structures, thus work is a default way of engaging with society, especially with people haven’t got married or having child to take care. That’s the reason why as the pandemic over, many people went back their work even they didn’t need money.

I always ask myself that we live to work or work to live. Unlike many people think work is everything, I supposed it's just one part of our life. Besides work, people should spend more leisure time for family, friends, and personal hobbies to have a meaningful living.

New vocabulary I learned:
- burnout (n): the state of being extremely tired or ill, either physically or mentally, because you have worked too hard

- drawback (n): (of/to doing something) a disadvantage or problem that makes something a less attractive idea