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Nobody Has Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Several billion years ago, a cosmic accident occurred that would eventually make some of us periodically unhappy. According to scientists, an gargantuan space object hit the earth during its formation, knocking it into a tilted, wobbly spin, which is the reason there’s a summer and a winter. Under this strange condition, Earth’s creatures evolved and thrived. Eventually, some of them became philosophers and poets, who described this condition and its meaning to the rest of us. They noticed the way the sun’s arc changed throughout the year, and mused about the flamboyant moods and cycles of nature. They admired summer’s golden daffodils and shy sumacs, and lamented winter’s specter-grey frost and northward-thronging robins, probably unaware that the changing seasons aren’t some universal system of order, but a peculiar and convoluted local side-effect of two large rocks having collided long ago. So we have a thing we call winter, whose days tend to be low in certain mood-improving quali

Nobody Has Seasonal Affective Disorder Switch to mobile version Raptitude.com Menu About Archives Experiments Courses Contact Best posts RSS Nobody Has Seasonal Affective Disorder { comments closed } 109 Facebook Email 2 Pinterest Reddit Share 111 SHARES Several billion years ago, a cosmic accident occurred that would eventually make some of us periodically unhappy. According to scientists, an gargantuan space object hit the earth during its formation, knocking it into a tilted, wobbly spin, which is the reason there’s a summer and a winter. Under this strange condition, Earth’s creatures evol

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