So I did the math. And a friend helped me because I am not very good at math. Winter in New England begins the end of November...if you'r e lucky you might get winter to wait until December. But you will squeeze four more weeks out of Fall, and that' s it.
The official start of Spring is March 20, or something like that. It is March 27. Where is Spring? It snowed the other night, and more snow is on the way. The Federal Government thought it would fool winter into leaving early by initiating Daylight Savings a month early this year. Someone forgot to tell Old Man Winter.
The temperature is generally in the 30's and 40's...yesterday it made it all the way up to 50, I think, although by the time I got outside I had missed the heat of the day. And it is the end of March. So let's do the math together, shall we? November through March...that' s 5 months. And it's not Spring yet. So let's say we go another few weeks, and round it to 6 months. Since there are only 12 months in every year, that' s half of every year spent cold, wet, moody, and miserable. Half your life if you were born in New England and have lived here your whole life.
Now add in the sleeping portion of your life. On a really, really good night, I like to get 8 -9 hours of sleep. But as a teenager, I used up probably 12 hours. As a baby you sleep a lot. You sleep more than you're awake, probably. And when you get to be a Senior, you take naps. So let's say the average number of hours any person sleeps per day could be as much as 12 hours. Since there are 24 hours in a day, if you sleep 12 hours, you are asleep for half your life. You know where this is going, don't you?
If half your life is spent waiting for winter to be over, and the other half is spent sleeping, there is no life left, really. Even if you take into account that half the winter overlaps with half the sleeping, that still doesn't leave you with much of a life.
My solution? You already know about the tanning, but that is really lame and I am really paranoid about all that UV....sleep less and go south FAST! So the sleeping less part can gain a couple hours a day, and if you multiply that by 356, you can gain back a bunch, pretty quick, but not quickly enough. If you vacation and travel at least 2 weeks a year, during the winter, then you can gain back 14 more days. Still not much. Because if you travel far, you could actually lose days! My friend is in Japan to to visit her daughter and see the Red Sox, and it took her nearly 2 days to get there!(A 13 hr flight plus a 13 hour time difference). Of course when she gets back, she will get the day back. Kind of like being in a time machine.
So now I know why people go South in the winter when they get older. By the time you realize you have lived half your life in the cold, dark, snowy part of the globe, half your life is over. You could have fun in the snow and cold..skiing, snowshoing, but you can't stay outside for 12 hours at a whack like you can when it's 70 degrees. You just can't.
If you don't believe me, you do the math. I didn't even include all the hours spent doing all kinds of unpleasant activities like driving, working, cleaning, etc. The forecast for the week: cloudy, in the low 40's, with a possibility of rain mixed with snow. No Spring yet.
Do the math.
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