Hibernation

I wonder if two to three months' hibernation per year means we (habitants in the north) get a longer life. Otherwise it's a very high price to live here. I mean we loose out on one sixth of the year when the standard of life digress to anti-social hiding activities. Hiding from cold weather, hiding from darkness, hiding from spontaneous socialising and hiding from anything requiring too much energy as our batteries ran flat sometime during the recovery process from New Year's Eve and there have been zero recharging possibilities since then.

It's tough. And it makes people cold.

So may be we should stop pretending 'we can do it' and take a yearly sabbatical just like the migratory birds.

I start with ten days in Thailand.