Spring Month... or Is It?

Living where I do, March does not mean blooming flowers, singing birds and warmth. It just means that another month of winter has arrived and tells you to deal with it. 

Currently we have below freezing temperatures that are in 20s and even teens. In March. Then they promise snow - about 6 more inches. However good it may be for the ground water and wells, but as a human being, shivering and being cold all the time is getting old. When the icicles are deceptively dripping it does not mean that it's warmer outside. It just means that the sun is shining and even the icicles have given up...

Sounds awfully pessimistic.

Today I read on Mike Huckabee's FB page that there is (and now I'm copy-pasting from https://www.facebook.com/mikehuckabee?ref=ts&fref=ts) "a new study from Germany that discovered pessimists live longer. The 10-year study of 40,000 adults found that those who were overly optimistic about the future were about 10 percent more likely to suffer disability or death within 10 years. Those who had low expectations for a satisfying future were actually healthier and lived longer. It could be that since pessimists expect the worst, they’re more cautious about their health and safety. I don’t know how it will affect the results if this news makes pessimists optimistic and optimists pessimistic. But as an optimist, all I can say is that if I die first, at least I won’t have to live with all those old pessimists"

Pessimistic attitude can save lives! :)