Think like a sunflower.

I'm always amazed at the ability of our bodies to deal with temperature extremes, yet wonder why we are so reluctant to cope with them. We can fly from Central America to Montreal on a winter day and experience a hundred degree or more temperature change and cope by putting on a coat. As long as we don't live in either place, we adjust without a complaint. Yet, when we experience temperatures twenty degrees or so above the norm where we live and work every day, people flip out, especially in the northeast when it hits triple digits. What happened to that coping faculty that we had this past winter when temperatures would swing sixty degrees during the course of a day?

While our bodies adjust, I guess our minds do not. Each one of us has a mean temperature that we like and once we go above or below our "comfort" level, it becomes a point of irritation. Some like the heat of the sun while others wait, often impatiently, for the cool.

I guess we're like flowers in some ways. Some flowers reach up to the sun and bask in the heat while others hide in the shade and wait for it to cool down. Like people, the two never seem to cross.