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<\/a>This is what people act like in the Fall!<\/p><\/div>\n
And then it hit me\u2014I am so sick of the whiners complaining about those two tiny time changes! It\u2019s enough already!<\/p>\n
I get it\u2014you want more daylight later in the day. I<\/em>\u00a0like that, as well. But how about the poor people who have to get up at the crack of dawn to get to work, get their kids to school, or just have somewhere they have to be, such as perhaps medical appointments? Do the naysayers not care at all that the early birds would prefer to have more daylight in the mornings<\/em>??? Let\u2019s all spare a thought for them!<\/p>\n And also think about the people who live in those crazy Arctic Circle places, including parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada,\u00a0where it\u2019s continuously dark for half the year and then bright light out for the other half!\u00a0 We all need to adjust to conditions we may not be fans of, and an hour of daylight on one end of the day or the other is not a major hardship.<\/p>\n A visual about the little inconvenience of life that people complain about.<\/p><\/div>\n So get over it already! If you really do<\/em>\u00a0suffer from seasonal\u00a0affective disorder (SAD,)\u00a0get yourself a sun lamp. (If you don\u2019t know, SAD is a type of depression that is linked to reduced exposure to sunlight.) I had one friend who said she had it and could not wait for the summers to roll around, so she could sit in the sun for long periods of time. And she looked like a piece of leather by the time she was forty!<\/p>\n I try to appreciate all four seasons\u2014they each bring something new to appreciate. And I do<\/em>\u00a0get a bit of a kick out of having to change the (manual) clocks twice a year. It\u2019s just a little inconvenience for every single person in America, (not counting Hawaii and, very crazily, Arizona,) to have to deal with for a few minutes. I actually feel like it brings us all together for a little bit, reminding each other to do it, and of the time change for brunch that Sunday morning.<\/p>\n Growing up in Brooklyn, I usually liked it when we turned the clocks back in the Fall; it was cozy that way, especially on Sunday evenings when the family was all together. I loved that. (Except for this scary-yet-amusing tale when I was just fourteen: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-halloween-2022<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/a>