Ugh! It’s the coldest out here in the Boston area that I can remember since I moved here 27 years ago. Plus tons of snow. We had a ginormous snow year in 2015 but not the cold temperatures we’ve been having now. This year 2026 is both! Uhhhh…
This is the worst winter since my emergency back surgery 2 years ago. Welp! My body sure had to get used to extreme cold and a ton of snow to clean off the car, etc. But you know, it did! I hurt for about a week but it settled down. Who knew? The body does its own thing and adjusts and moves on.
I also sat in my parking lot and watched the plows clean up. Smaller front-loaders that squirreled around to clean up spaces and park the snow in clean piles…or walls I should say. Ha! And neighbors out there all doing our thing…cleaning snow off our cars. And of course, you have to pause and socialize. Haha!
Then when it gets warmer, we’ll get the rain equivalent of the snow. Big rain storms, trying to dress appropriately just like when it snows. Substituting umbrellas for snow shovels. Driving will be different but pretty much the same…driving through water instead of on top of frozen water and trying to not skid.
And then…summer. Hot. I hate heat. But we make do with that too. And we come up with our antidotes to heat…how each of us handle it. If you love it, you love it. Period! If you don’t, you figure a way to enjoy the nice summer days without melting. Always a challenge.
See what I’m aiming at here? Give us a weather situation and we handle it, don’t we. Weather is bigger than us. We can’t tell it what to do or bargain with it or whatever else you can think of. Instead, we throw interesting words at it, usually as we’re making our way through it and surviving it. Everybody has their routine. I use a small shovel to shovel snow. I can’t lift the big ones with a lot of snow on them. So it takes me longer to clean up snow around my car. Some big, strong guy can take that big shovel and clean up a spot in ummmm…8 minutes. We all have our own way of dealing with the same thing.
But the point is, we all HAVE a way. We all deal with the situation called “weather.” And we still move on. We have things to do. We gotta get going. What does that teach us about ourselves, and life in general? We don’t let weather stand in the way of our lives unless, of course, it’s drastic. But most weather we encounter is able to be handled. We push ourselves through this stuff and move on.
How do we treat other areas of our lives? Do we treat them like we treat weather situations? We certainly have resolve to get that car out of a snowbank or get that a/c going in the car on a hot day. Not much usually holds us back. Again, we’ve got things to do.
So the question remains, how can we apply this type of resolve to other areas of our lives? Moving forward with our ambitions? Making a u-turn and going in a different direction in life if our current direction stinks! How confident are we approaching life like we approach digging that car out of a snowbank? And to go further, how many times have we shelved that resolve because we “chickened out” thinking perhaps we weren’t good enough or…what???
I’ve started thinking like that as I get older. What are you waiting for Ev? Do it! At least try it! So what can you see in your life that you might address as earnestly as digging that car out? That “never doubted yourself” attitude?
Think about it. Use weather as an example. Seriously. And as I always say, eat pie while you’re engaging in these life changing moments. Never change the pie routine though. Ha!
Eve Sophia 