Cold Weather Blues
by: Alex Hastings
"It's too cold! I want it to be warm again!"
Sound familiar? Maybe you've heard it from your little cousins or siblings, and not long ago they were complaining it was too hot! But little cousins aren't the only ones complaining about the sudden change in the weather. I know I've personally heard many in our hallways here at Sig complaining of the cold snap. Now, I can see a little grumbling. We do have to take all of our various layers needed to keep warm with us all day. It's not like we have lockers, and there aren't enough cubbies for two hundred plus fall/winter coats plus backpacks plus lunchboxes plus whatever other item you wish to insert. Also the walkway can turn into a freezing wind tunnel when the wind gets going. Brrr!!!
But really, enough is enough. Get over it! The weather is cold, yes. We can all tell that when we go out to our cars at 8:05 in the morning, panicking because we're going to be late and we can't leave until that dang frost disappears from our windshields!
I actually like the cold better than the hot. Really, isn't something wrong when we exit our houses in the morning and have to wonder if our doorway somehow transported us to the middle of the Amazon jungle it's so humid?
As amusing as the complaints have sometimes been, they really need to stop, especially considering the same people complain about the cold and the hot. Think about it, complaining constantly about the weather you were just asking for makes you sound like a little kid. We're in high school, not first grade.
Swimming, camp outs in the back yard, s'mores over the campfire...all perfectly good warm weather pastimes; even if the weather does feel more suited to the equatorial regions than the temperate regions of the Mid West United States.
There are just as many awesome cold weather pastimes, people. Hot chocolate, fires in the fireplace, watching movies while sipping hot chocolate with a fire in the fireplace, come on, it's not that hard!
How about this, invite some friends over for a movie bash some weekend. Meet at one house (if it has a fireplace, even better!), buy a lot of snacks (healthy snacks are optional), make a nest in the middle of the living room floor with blankets and afghans and enjoy the fact that the cold weather is encouraging your friendship. I mean, come on, what's better than making fun of the crappy special effects of those cheesy sci-fi or horror movies with your friends? Honestly, in those cheesy horror movies, count how many potential weapons the hapless hero passes when running from the scary guy in the jumpsuit, its hilarious! (There goes the pitchfork, the bat, the shovel...get the idea?)
The bottom line is this. It doesn't really matter if you like the cold or not. Grumbling for a couple of days is okay. I really think it's expected. But if it doesn't stop after that, you start to sound like that little cousin. So let's act our ages and rise above the weather.