As the cold wind blows like the most recent test you took, goosebumps rise like the cost of the standard of living and teeth are chattering like monkeys. As people cover up and stack layer upon layer to avoid a serious chill, people are starting to wonder why winter is really cold? Some people use the story of Persephone in order to try to make sense of the change of seasons. Others use the surrounding temperatures and the positioning of the Earth in relation to the sun to provide a biological and scientific explanation for the way the sun is the way it is. However, after millions of years, millions of months, millions of days, millions of hours, millions of minutes, millions of seconds, millions of milliseconds, and millions of nanoseconds, we finally have the answer to why winter is so cold.
Long ago, Winter used to be very warm. In fact, it used to be the warmest of all the seasons, even warmer than Summer. It used to give out gifts to everyone around it to show how much it cared for everyone in the world, and it said the kindest things to make people feel good about themselves. In fact, people used to use Winter as a model for good behavior. Winter loved being very kind, and even more, it loved all the adoration that people gave for the very kind things it did every day. In fact, everyone loved Winter, all except Summer. Summer was very cold, as it was never polite, and always loved saying nasty things to other people. Summer was always jealous of Winter because Winter was always popular and never isolated. Whenever Winter was around, Summer would hide its face and throw a giant temper tantrum.
One day, Winter noticed that Summer was sulking in the corner, away from everyone else. Now, normally whenever a person saw someone cold like Summer, people would often ignore them. But Winter thought to itself, “Maybe if I am kind to Summer and teach Summer how to be kind, maybe I could become more popular and people would love me even more!” So Winter went over to Summer and taught it all about kindness, love, empathy, and warmth. With that, Summer started to become warm and people loved Summer for being so kind. But Winter was angry, thinking, “Summer shouldn’t be popular! I deserve to be popular for being so nice! In fact, Summer wouldn’t even be nice if it wasn’t for me! They should all be paying attention to me!”
With that, Winter decided in order to get everyone to stop paying attention to Summer, they had to do something so nice that even Summer wouldn’t be able to pull it off. Winter decided that it would cook a giant feast. It cooked all kinds of wonderful delicious things – hamburgers with big juicy patties, baked potatoes topped with chives and sour cream, bread bowl pasta with luscious alfredo and savory vegetables, nacho covered with gooey cheese, pico de gallo, and refried beans, and a giant cake that was so big that it reached the moon. Everyone rushed over to the feast and started stuffing their faces. However, they got extremely sick afterwards, because Winter put in a lot of unhealthy stuff to make the food taste good. Winter was very angry that people didn’t like the food it cooked, and with that, it decided to be nasty and start isolating itself from others. That is why Winter is very cold, and why it is important to do good things for the sake of it rather than doing good things to please others.
