Weather Freak
What you need is a good snowstorm or a tornado. If you do not live where that might happen, you might want to move there. People living in places with intense weather tend to be more creative (as a variety of studies have suggested). There is something about looking out of a window at a blizzard that helps one appreciate sitting by a warm fire and sipping a cup of coffee. If you have to work out in it, the special challenges it poses makes you think a little more deliberately.
The Creator thought of everything when it came to making this planet. If you do not like the climate where you live, you can move. Some Native Americans in the western United States would move up the mountain in the summer and down the mountain in the winter. Minimalist living allows for a lot of flexibility. Floods, forest fires, hurricanes, ice storms, avalanches, high winds — I love all of them. I am a weather freak (and I have met a number of them while living on this planet). When the atmosphere offers a challenge, my anxieties go down (the same reason I like to fly).
The most anxious people in the world are the ones that try the hardest to live safe. If you have not fixed a flat on your car in deep snow, you are missing something. Nothing beats an eighty mile per hour wind. Weather extremes remind you of your smallness. It opens the door to help you feel again. The more “civilized” we become the more sterile we make our surroundings.
See a good storm in progress? Get out in it. (Personally, I like dodging lightning. So far the score is: Dale 13,573 — Lightning 0). God’s endless nature art is in constant change (and always will be as long as there is a physical universe). Human attempts to regulate it are beyond laughable. Embrace it. Live the whole scene while you are here — storms and all.
