When I get cold I stay cold. It’s like it soaks into my bones (I know that’s not how heat works but that’s what it feels like) no amount of added layers after that helps.
Yes, the time of year with constant depression and the only outdoor activity being surviving is my favorite.
I’m constantly depressed in Winter because of the short days. Nothing more depressing than having to leave home for work in the dark and only returning when it’s already dark.
Darkness is actually great in areas without light pollution! Like polar opposite to “depressing”
Yeah that’s not how seasonal affective disorder works. I can view the starry night sky as magical the same as anyone else but not enough bright light hitting my eyeballs will result in me being depressed as fuck.
I don’t know where you live that item like that. In Finland there’s a shitload of activities during winter
I just dont like the outside when its always wet and dark. I enjoy skiing but my motivation to go out drops below zero with the temperatures
future humans will spend summers trying to survive in air conditioning, & spend winters trying to survive in air conditioning. we did this to ourselves
Well summer never made me want to kill myself so I tend to prefer it. Severe seasonal affective disorder is interesting.
That said these days I have ways of dealing with it. Turns out running during the winter days is kinda neat because you end up getting endorphins and UV. I also have one of those SAD lamps and they truly work for me. Nowadays I like winter a lot more - especially cozy stuff like knitting and tea.
I do think that the world’s increasing waistlines affect people’s attitude about summer. I know that the bigger you are, the more miserable the heat can feel. Plus wearing revealing clothes isn’t fun for everyone, especially with things like chub rub. On the flip side, being skinny makes you pretty cold so the winter can be miserable. I know that no amount of layers would help the ache in my bones when I was underweight.
This is why autumn is bae. Hot enough to be outside, cold enough to not sweat, pretty colours and harvest activities, Halloween… Autumn wins. Close second is spring, which I hear is fabulous in many places, but in Canada is mostly just freezing winter temperatures, one week of trees blooming, and then just 30 C temperatures after that.
That’s your experience. No matter how well I dress, I can’t stop my bones from aching in the cold. On the flip side, I’m typically comfortable in the heat, even in 38 Celsius temps. I obviously have an upper limit of like 40-45C, but so do most humans.
Likewise it’s not really safe to chill outside in -40 to -50C for most humans either. At that point you’re getting frostbite through the wool underlayers, and the exposed skin will literally sting.
We are in this thread discussing our experiences, so, valid all around. For most folks who don’t have bone ache(that sucks), effective layering provides an “out” from the cold. Once you are in shorts and a shirt, there’s nothing more you can do to be more comfortable in the heat (aside from an alternate, bedouin strategy) but that’s not really relevant in western countries. Maybe it will be soon.
I think we can both agree heat plus humidity is the absolute worst. Heat on its own is certainly the lesser evil
