Love a Happy Ending Lifestyle Magazine August 2013 | Page 46

No, that is not the life for me. As much as I do appreciate a good day on the slopes, or sitting
inside a nice warm coffee house with my laptop, looking out the window as the snow falls
down.

I’m more of an endless summer kind of person than an endless winter one. I love long, lazy
afternoons at the beach, or hiking by a mountain stream. To me it is hard to beat scuba
diving in a balmy sea, or zipping down a challenging trail on a mountain bike. Shorts and a
T-shirt beat jacket, hat and gloves hands down.
At the same time, in some ways I find that it is only through the contrast that we can fully
appreciate a thing. It is our hardships, after all, that make our successes that much sweeter.
Not that winter is a hardship, necessarily, but in contrast it does make summer all the more
enjoyable.