
The weather can influence how we perceive our entire lives.
Happiness researches go around asking people if their lives are happy. They’ve noticed that when they ask on sunny days, people are more likely to say their entire lives are happy, whereas if they ask on rainy days, the wet weather changes their entire global perspective on the state of their existence. (Though if people are told to consciously reflect on the day’s weather, the effect goes away).
So if nothing’s going particularly wrong in your life that day, maybe Mother Nature is just fucking with your emotions. It reminds me of the smiling trick: if you’re depressed, you can trick yourself into a lighter mood by forcing yourself to smile because your body associates smiling with happiness. It’s a kind of reverse psychology on your hormones. If you like the rain, I guess you have nothing to worry about!
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