Cognitive Dissonance
Mar. 19th, 2012 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteI know that the current ludicrously-warm weather is not, technically, a good thing. I know it's a bad sign for our environment, and inauspicious, and will probably bode poorly for gardening this summer and for a lot of other stuff in the long term. And I know that multiple days over 70 in New England in what is still technically winter is just Not Right.
However, I am still selfishly, shallowly, short-sightedly enjoying every last minute of it. I am a creature of warmth and sunlight, and right now the weather outside is like a drug. I am wallowing in warmth and happiness and the specific sensation of relief that only comes when, for the first time after a winter of hunched shoulders and numb fingers and long underwear, I am finally able to take a deep breath stretch out, feel the sun on my skin, and revel in comfort.
Intellectually, I am aware that I should be unhappy. But as long as it's like this, my unhappiness is going to be buried beneath a layer of celebration, short sleeves, and contemplating a walk to the ice cream parlor tonight....
However, I am still selfishly, shallowly, short-sightedly enjoying every last minute of it. I am a creature of warmth and sunlight, and right now the weather outside is like a drug. I am wallowing in warmth and happiness and the specific sensation of relief that only comes when, for the first time after a winter of hunched shoulders and numb fingers and long underwear, I am finally able to take a deep breath stretch out, feel the sun on my skin, and revel in comfort.
Intellectually, I am aware that I should be unhappy. But as long as it's like this, my unhappiness is going to be buried beneath a layer of celebration, short sleeves, and contemplating a walk to the ice cream parlor tonight....
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Date: 2012-03-19 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-19 09:04 pm (UTC)You should only be concerned when you look at a calendar.
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Date: 2012-03-20 02:43 am (UTC)Not making any sweeping generalizations from here, not saying anything about climate, just observing.
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Date: 2012-03-20 02:13 pm (UTC)Just to put it into perspective, Boston's March record high is 89F, and our record low is -8F. That's almost 100 degrees difference at the extremes. We've had mild winters before, and we've had scary winters as well. We get thunderstorms in December and 2-foot blizzards in May and October. Weather around here has always been crazy and we get more of it than the rest of the country.
"I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it.
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration -- and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season."
--Mark Twain
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Date: 2012-03-20 01:15 am (UTC)This just isn't weird for New England.
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