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You make some wonderful points in your response. Some are spot-on, while others miss the mark entirely.

Essentially, when it comes to the contrast between nature and culture, I always side with culture. However, my chosen lifestyle — which means I spend most time in the countryside— forces me to adapt to the cycles of nature more than I would like. Over time, I have come to terms with this. Perhaps I have already gotten used to it. In some ways, I can even see advantages to it.

I am definitely a night owl, though; I rarely go to sleep before three in the morning. This is part of the problem. When the sun doesn't rise before 8 a.m., as it currently does, there are only eight hours of daylight to get urgent tasks done outside. I would actually have to go to bed earlier. "Being aligned with natural cycles" sounds like a nice romantic idea, but I often feel compelled by it.

However, you were right about the other thing: I love summer and prefer it to all the other seasons. In fact, I could do without these altogether. Winter is just a long wait for summer. I do my best to escape it in my dreams whenever possible. I only realized how much I love summer after traveling to the Mediterranean, especially Greece. As a child, I don't remember being particularly enthusiastic about summer, hot weather and plenty of light. (My wife finds it downright "unheimlich" how positively the Mediterranean climate affects my mood and energy levels.)

I was born in May. I'm quite skeptical of your assumption that this inclination has to do with the date of birth, although it does sound reasonable.

So far, the winter here has been extremely mild — I can live with that. But lots of frost and snow flurries for you.