This is the winter of my discontent...

So, this winter clearly will never end. I honestly have a hard time believing the sun will ever again provide enough warmth to remove the deep chill instilled within me over the past 5 months. Each day the temperatures refuse to climb and the cold rain continues to fall. My skin longs for the warmth of direct sunlight and to shed the weight of winter layers. Each day I think perhaps Spring has finally arrived, I step outside to feel the chill in the air and watch the sky cloud over. As the flowers have started to bloom, I know in my mind my belief that Spring and Summer will never arrive cannot be true, but my heart tells me there is no hope to ever feel truly warm again. Honestly, I do not know how societies in these high latitudes have survived such a relentless force for so long each year over the course of generations and millenia.