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Why The Cold Bothers Me In Every Way

Elsa has it wrong.

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A wise woman once said, "The cold never bothered me anyway." If you are wondering who said that, it was Elsa from the movie "Frozen." If you haven't seen "Frozen," please stop reading this and go watch it right away! Anyway, Elsa is a Queen who has magic ice and snow powers. She sings a very empowering and fantastic song called "Let it Go." Again, a great song, and if you haven't listened to it, stop reading this and go listen. For the record, Elsa, I love you and everything about "Frozen." I dressed as you for Halloween two years ago, but here are several reasons why you are wrong.


1. The cold

You have to wear so many layers. You can barely move with said layers. If you walk outside with wet hair, it freezes. If you forget gloves, your fingers will go dumb and red. You cannot be warm and happy in the winter. If you don't wear multiple socks, game over. Don't even mention getting out of the shower because you freeze the second the water turns off. And scraping off your car and waiting for it to warm up takes a couple of years off your life (not to be dramatic or anything).

2. When it snows

Do not "let it snow, let it snow, let it snow". The weather outside is frightful, and playing in the snow requires lots of layers, and when snow gets in your boots, it's awful. The snow is fun when it cancels school. However, when there is ice everywhere, and you crack your phone from slipping, the fun is over. Or when you actually injure yourself, that's not fun either.


3. When there's a warm day

Nothing ruins your spirits like when a warm day comes around and you start thinking of warmer days. Then Mother Nature is like "Sike! It's going to go from 64 to -4 degrees with windchill!" This is also a time when people use winter as a prime opportunity to post "TBT" pics of them in bikinis on the beach "wishing I was back here." Yes, we all want to be knee deep in the water somewhere when it's sunny and 75 degrees.


4. Pale and dry

I'm about five shades lighter of pale than everyone else all year round; therefore, winter is not my best look. Also, you go through bottles of lotion because your skin gets all rough and dry, and it just isn't fun.


5. Sickness

Everyone always gets sick in the winter. Sniffles, sneezing and coughing. You have an abundance of cough drop wrappers, and your bedside table is probably full of tissues and NyQuil. In addition to this, everyone becomes lazy. The cold weather makes you want to lay in bed and do nothing.

6. Eating in the winter

The holidays are a time when most of us over indulge on cookies, sweets, home-cooked meals, etc. Wearing baggy sweatshirts make it a little easier to not care when you eat multiple pieces of pizza because no one will be able to tell. Girl Scout cookies come out in the winter, and we all eat boxes on boxes (as a former Girl Scout, it's so hard to say no to them when they ask you to buy some). And then we're all like "OK spring break and summer are coming up" and start working out more and stressing ourselves out. We should all just hibernate and wake up when winter is over.

7. The darkness

It gets dark so early in the winter, which makes your days seem so much shorter! As college students, we already feel like there is not enough time in the day, and when the sun sets at five, it feels so much later.


8. The post-holiday blues

OK, some definite positives of winter are Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza, New Years Eve, etc. But once January 2nd rolls around, it's just not exciting. There's no more events to cook for, bake for or shop for. Sometimes, you'll get the occasional "sorry-this-is-late Christmas card," which keeps the season going, but once those stop, it really hits you — there won't be any more holiday excitement for several weeks. You can only have so many cups of hot chocolate, go ice skating and wear the same couple of scarves over and over for a short amount of time.

So Elsa, I think you are wrong — the cold does bother me, but I guess I'll just have to let it go...


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