How do you find happiness or enjoyment in winter?

[Incogg]

I'm already struggling with the cold and rain and dark. In summer, I often drive out to the countryside for a walk or to the coast for a swim in the sea. If nothing else I sit out in the garden enjoying the sun.
But for the last few weeks I feel like I get in from work, get some tea, and am then just wishing my life away until I can go to bed.

Does anyone else relate? And if not, how do you stay cheerful in winter?

I love getting out and about in the daylight and sitting under blankets.

What I don't like is getting out and about in summer when it's hot and humid, everywhere is absolutely rammed, and I feel sweaty, uncomfortable and sticky!

I hibernate in Summer, too warm, too peopley, too bright, too busy, too summery. I drive my husband insane.

It's the same in our house, lol.

DH is a real outdoorsy person and a lot of his hobbies are weather dependent, so he hates winter as it's normally too cold, dark, icy or windy to do any of them, and the nice days always happen when he's at work

He hates this time of year whereas I absolutely love it. In summer I hide inside while he sweats himself stupid outside without me!

Ha ha identical to here!

I don’t find it sticky in summer - I mean I sweat obvs but natural fibres keep it comfy. Home is cool, or on about 2 very hot days I put on a fan. Layers don’t make me warm - just cold and uncomfortably bulked up.

I have exactly the same obligations - why would they change? But in winter leaving the house is a strain.

I’m in a choir. And a band. And a book club. I just don’t want to leave the house when it’s fucking freezing.

I wish it didn't bother me, but it does - to the point that summer in the UK can actually be quite a stressful time of year for me.

In other, drier countries it doesn't bother me nearly as much. It's the humidity/closeness that does it for me.

I agree with PP that in winter you can control your temperature
Sorry @Flowsbeneathus but this is crap. I can’t control my temp in winter. Gloves make my hands colder. I hate layers, and when I do them I’m just cold and also bulky and uncomfortable- and if I go inside anywhere I’m hot and sweaty.
I don’t often feel uncomfortable in a British summer. Natural fibres. Loose clothes. Done.

I do different things depending on the time of year.

But why do you want to sit under a blanket? To get warm, presumably? You’re warm without in summer.

@cardibach honestly can you just let people like what they like without picking holes in everyone’s reasons. Winter is going nowhere for a while and no amount of pulling people apart for their love of it is going to change that.

But I don't feel comfortable and warm sitting in shorts and t-shirt while simultaneously sweating and feeling all flustered and sticky with the heat.

I feel overwhelmed and stressed and uncomfortable and irritable.

Why is it rammed? Where are you going? It’s rarely hot in the U.K. - maybe 2 sweaty weeks.

For about 8 weeks.

How? I’m in a band, a choir and a book club. All run all year.

Because I live in a pretty, popular area that fills up with tourists every time the sun shines and the temperature goes above 15 degrees.

You seem very incapable of understanding that people have different lives and different experiences to you!

I’m not picking holes in your reasons any more than you are picking holes in mine.
Just let me hate winter which is 5 months and love summer which is about 6 days and stop complaining as though you are the hard done to one.

Because I have different hobbies to you? lol.

As do you.

You seem very incapable of understanding that people have different lives and different experiences to you

Like a dog with a bone honestly.

As are you. And you have the best of the weather for your preference.

I'm not the one pulling apart everyone's comments and going "but whyyyy" at everything😂

I don’t get what would change seasonally given you hate being out in the summer.

You don't have to "get it".