No offense to you personally, but I feel like some people are oblivious and don’t understand that the holiday season is built on the backs of overworked people. I don’t even work retail anymore, but I see their pain.

Me personally:

• I can’t have a dog because I don’t want to force it to live in my small apartment
• I hate being cold all the time
• I don’t like that it gets dark so early
• I don’t have the luxury of staying indoors, I have to go out in it every day
• Everyone’s in a hurry with short fuses and terrible driving
• When I worked retail you were subjected to holiday music all day, every day and it got very old

I’m genuinely not trying to project these onto you or reduce your seasonal joy, just giving my perspective…

Yes!! Totally the same. I effing love winter.

For a stint. I like the way the sun hangs in the winter, for the few hours it’s up. Plus I’ve worked jobs where the hours reduced around the holidays, so I’m kinda Pavlovian conditioned.

Yeah. It was 34c here today and I long for Scottish winters right now.

I think I just don’t like all the changes in temperature in winter. On a warm summer day, I’m just warm all the time, I can get used to that as long as it’s not extreme heat. In winter once I adjust to the cold outside, I have to get into a full train with electric heating. Then out in the cold again, then warm office.

Annoying AF, abolish heating in public spaces, just wear jacket, scarf, hat all the time and carry a blanket everywhere. Or have cold rail cars so I dont have to peel myself like an onion. Only the workers need heat, screw customers.

I’ll reserve the right to change my oppinion when it’s summer tho.

My tolerance for cold is way higher than heat and humidity, so I am with you, it’s always struck me as easier to manage cold with layers and modes of AC, when it’s hot out I am just fucked without any AC.

yea I never get sick in winter. Might be a POC thing who knows, the sun def warms me up more cause of it

I get sadder when it’s gray outside, thankfully nowadays in portugal even winters get pretty sunny, it’s sunny right now but cold

i fucking love a warm coffee during this season it makes my life 200% better dont need to worry about sunscreen as much all other seasons suck glory to the ice gods

I used to love the winter season, but separation from family and friends makes me notice how quiet it is now compared to past years. Also the cold fucks up my hands.

I do appreciate being able to go outside without being harassed by insects though

Yeah, summers are the worst for me mentally. Spring and fall are beautiful, winter is cozy, but summer is just hot and miserable. Everything burns and I am always wet. Hate that shit.

I live in a tropical Australian state so I get summer depression because it’s FUCKING HOT AND HUMID MATE.

Also my summer last like 9 months

I hate this country

I used to get seasonal depression, I don’t know what the hell is going on with my life this winter but depressed is not how I feel most of the time.

Come to the pnw and see about it lol just constant drizzle