Time for Spring
For those of you who do not know, I live here in the Midwest. Having lived here my whole life, I have learned how to live with hot summers and cold winters. As always, it is right around this time of year that I start getting an itching for Spring and can not wait for warmer weather to return.
Now I would never mindfully move to a warmer climate as I can not stand heat. At the same time, I could not move to arctic or someplace where it is cold year-round. If someone said which type of weather I prefer I would say without a doubt cold weather.
Why? Because when it gets cold, you can keep putting layers on until you are warm. You might be a little uncomfortable with so much weighing you down, but you would be warm. If it is hot, you can strip-down, be stark naked, and STILL be hot! Also, I sweat rather easy, so if I was in a hot climate I would be drenched in sweat everyday.
There is also the psychological component of weather. I know many people that have said that they would move to a hot climate in a second if they could. Wussies I say!!! They are wimps and weak. Can't handle a little cold? I always have felt that Midwest women are the best in the country because they are tougher and can handle everything from sauna summers to frigid winters. If people from warmer climates come to the Midwest, they are shocked at the cold and can not wait to get back to their sissy lifestyles.
Lastly, we have the change of seasons which is very nice. It is nice to have some white snow on the ground for a few months, then mother nature shifts and flowers start blooming in the Spring giving way to warmer months ahead. In the Summer, days are longer and the days of snow are gone. Fall enters with the leaves changing and hot days behind us. Thus the circle of seasons ends and starts again. If you are in stictly hot or cold climates, all you see is one season, with maybe a small hint of one or two others.
The true irony is that in the Midwest, we have such a dichotomy going: we can't wait for it to be cooler when it is Summer and are anxiously awaiting the warmth when it is Winter! Thus, back to one of my original thoughts that I prefer cold weather, but will always take a warm day over a cold day and a warm day over a hot day.
Alas, I live here and will not move....you figure it out!
1 Comments:
Give me a warm sandy beach over the face-freezing winds of Chicago any day! And sometimes naked and sweaty isn't a bad thing.
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