People Are Hard to Please
During the past few years I kept hearing that the winter’s gone around these parts, and for good reason. But then you have a day like today, a little below freezing, moderate snowfall and winds at 30-35 km/h gusting up to 60-65 km/h.
As blizzards go, this one seems pretty modest to me, yet now people went the other way and started complaining about the wind and the snow and the cold! They don’t have a winter for a few years and they complain, then they get a slight trace of winter and they complain again. Honestly, make up your minds!
I went out today and actually enjoyed it. That’s an extremely rare occurrence for me in itself, enjoying myself outside of the house, it almost never happens… But what I noticed was how deserted the streets were, and how even fewer people were walking against the wind. Only saw one or two people going the same way I was while I walked against the wind, and then there was a rather long stretch of road that was completely empty, I didn’t see a single other walker for several minutes!
It’s a little blizzard, a tiny proof that we are, indeed, in the middle of winter, what are you people afraid of? Why aren’t you getting out there and enjoying it, feeling what nature is supposed to feel like this time of year? We haven’t been getting this in quite some time, after all…
Yeah, sure, snow getting in your eyes might not be so comfortable, and neither is having a gust of wind knock the breath out of your lungs or make you need to take turns in order to walk straight, but it’s fun and it’s nature. Not to mention that “walking” on icy pavement with the wind at your back makes you feel like a little kid again.
Be a part of nature instead of fighting against it, get away from your manufactured convenience for a while and embrace what’s around you! And, next time you say you want something, could you please make sure you actually want it, so you won’t be complaining all over again when you do get it?
