Weather and Mood

It is amazing how much a sunny day can really lift my mood.  When I am driving down the road and the sun is shining and the grass is green and the flowers are growing, I just feel so...well, full of hope.  I feel hope that the future will be brighter.  I have hope that I will be able to accomplish my dreams (or, at least, some of them).  I have hope that I won't always feel so alone, that maybe I will be able to share all of my secrets with someone someday, and feel safe doing so.  I have hope that one day, I will feel as though I have made a positive difference in someone's life.  And these hopes are what keep me going.

Also, the reverse is just as true.  When the sun is hiding and rain is coming down in buckets, I feel gloomy and upset.  I usually can still find shreds of hope, but they can feel like they are being washed away by the rain like the once-colorful chalk drawings on the sidewalk.  It is a lot harder to believe that things can get better.   I don't necessarily hate rainy days (if I can curl up in bed and read or nap, then they are okay), they just seem to make it harder for me to hold on to the hope that keeps me going.  Stormy days make it even harder.

It is pretty amazing how much the weather can effect our moods.

A random thought I had the other day was whether the weather when we are born has anything to do with the kind of weather that makes us have good and bad moods.  I was born on a sunny day, and sunny days make me happy.  I have friends who love rainy days.   I never thought to ask my friends who like rainy days if they were born on rainy/gloomy days. 

A very random thought indeed, but an interesting one.

So, what was the weather like when you were born?  And is that the weather that you like most?