I recently read an article entitled Sick of Winter? Tips for Improving Your Mood. In it, a well-meaning PhD postulates that your wintry bad mood isn’t determined by the wind, snow and cold, but rather by what you do with yourself in spite of the weather. Among the “helpful” tips: exercise, play in the snow, or shovel a neighbor’s sidewalk.
With all due respect, me thinks the old doc may have thrown back a few too many glasses of the same hairy stuff that brought Patrick to his knees during a recent trip to Montserrat.
The article fails, IMO, because it ignores the one, simple, immutable fact about winter that makes it so miserable: IT’S FREAKIN’ COLD!