I love summer, I love spring, I love fall, I hate winter. Winter is the most depressing month for me. I don’t understand the whole “winter wonderland” stuff. When I see snow, I see hours of shoveling, cold fingertips, and colder nights. I know the cold is supposedly good for you because it cleans your lungs or something, but no.
As a commuter having to wake up earlier just to shovel your car out, and then having to take the long route to school because the back roads are a hazardous wonderland. Also, the clothing is awful. Having to wear oversized winter jackets and clumpy shoes is the worst when, underneath it you know you have a killer outfit to show off. That’s another thing that’s awful about winter, the clothing. Since you don’t want to waste an outfit that will be hidden under a ski jacket you wear frumpy clothes, sometimes clothes that you could easily go to bed in (or is that just me?). I personally start caring less, I start wearing sweats and t-shirts with a sweater, and another sweater.
I don’t put that much effort in my outer appearance because I don’t like feeling my mascara frozen on my eyelashes. Plus, my lips get so dry and cracked that I have to wear Vaseline or whatever Chapstick I have. I don’t consider myself a high maintenance person, truly I don’t. I just like being comfortable. I like being able to go outside and think maybe one more jacket wouldn’t hurt, or maybe shorts is the way to go. I don’t like going out and thinking that if I have just one area of exposed skin I will die of hypothermia.
Even the thought of getting coffee or eating is scary, because then I have to either leave the building I’m in to acquire food, or I have to hold onto my coffee, which makes my gloved hands unable to stay in my pockets. I just don’t like winter, I get mad, I get sad, I get moody. Feelings that I feel once in a while, I feel every day. The plan is to graduate, get my money and fly to the other side of the country, to the West coast, where my only problem with the weather is if it’ll rain enough to maybe clear the smog air.