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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
I feel anxiety about not being able to enjoy summer to it's fullest. I live in Sweden and unfortunately many days during the summer are cloudy and rainy. Of course you can't do anything about the weather but it still makes me feel down and disappointed.
I don't work and by that I can't go abroad and I don't have any friends to spend summer with. I'm not interested in staying in tents and that kind of activities.
By that I'm very dependent on the weather. The few days it's sunny and warm I go a nearby lake or to the sea to swim but most days it's too cold or cloudy. Sometimes I take a trip into town for a walk but I still always feel I miss out on enjoying the summer.
What I really want is a cottage close to a lake or to the sea and to live there from say May to September and just go up, go out, having coffee in nature and go for a swim several times a day.
That will never be a reality as I don't work and if I did work, then I couldn't live like that.
Some days it's even harder when the weather report says it will be rather cloudy during the day and I then think of going to town instead. But then the weather becomes too hot for town and too cloudy for the beach. I then just sit inside as the whole situation frustrates me enormously. I don't have a garden so I can't go outside and just "taking walks" is boring and makes me feel even more that I miss out on summer.
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I understand you.
My situation is similar to that of @
will19 and @
Yaowen. Here, there are heat wave after heat wave. Very hard to go out unless you do it from 7:00am to 10:00 am. Last night, I took my doggies out at 12:30 at night and the temperature didn’t low a lot. 35,5 Celsius. We have been suffering high temperatures since the month of March. So, you can guess I’m longing for Autumn.
It’s only a matter of time than Spain becomes a desert.
Said that, I see your situation worse and completely understandable. Sun rays are needed and being in a place with rainy and cloudy days for a long time is depressive.
Buy the most comfortable clothes to be protected from the rain (I mean, a light raincoat so you won’t have to carry an umbrella with you). Take in your bag fresh clothes in case you get the surprise for a sudden weather change. Use the toilets in the parkings underground to change the clothes if necessary.
Look at the weather forecast to see which hours the temperature is gonna be more nice.
Don’t let the rain stop you. Look at for alternative activities such us, discovering new places in the city. Search in the net previously what you can be interested to visit.
Program indoors activities, such as, going to the theatre, attending to lectures about topics of your interest, joining to a group to do some kind of activity in a cultural centre. Doing these kind of activities or whatever others that may be of your interest gives you the chance to interact with people.
Tomorrow early in the morning I will hang out with a woman who also have doggies and we are gonna share with our “babies” the few hours we can be outside. Especially, for the sake of the doggies.
Ah, I also try to avoid talking about the heat we are suffering. It makes me feel more comfort and try to focus on other things even when inside me “I’m thinking from time to time how tired I feel because of the high temperatures”. I accept this thought but try to distract myself with something else and it helps me.
Try to avoid thinking that you are not taking advantages of your summer, think only at the present day and the possibilities you can have at every single moment. Stay present.
Let life surprises you.
Keep telling us how are you going.
As a side note, I’m not sure but I think there’s a depression that has to do with seasons. Not sure, I’m talking now by memory.