Tis the season...yeah right!

Today we woke up to some cold temperatures 18 degrees fahrenheit - minus 12 degrees celsius and thats quite cold. We also had a dusting of snow, light and fluffy not even the kind that can make good snowballs. As a kid I used to hate that kind, I do however, remember that in Ireland we never really had that type of snow that was fluffy it was always wet snow and wet snow makes good snowballs and if you are inclined also makes good snowmen. I have always been very practical and if snow came then I would make use of it. Make snowmen or walk for miles as a kid just to find the best hill to slide down on, bring my coal bag and take an hour to fashion out of the hill the best slide we could make all of the time getting just a little bit further and then running back uphill knowing the next one would be that much faster and longer as we would meet new snow at the bottom. The snow would be cold and you would get a little wet but the thrill of enjoying the snow while it was there would make us forget the fact that we were cold or wet, ah yes adrenalin. I thought about this as I warmed the car up and wondered why as we approach adulthood these things die inside of us. Is it because we no longer like to get wet or cold? Or is it because we have had our fill of childhood thrills and when we get older we wish not to have those thrills back? Or even again is it because we have become caught up in the day to day grind that real life brings?
All I know is right now, I am cutting sample after sample for all things related to the season we are in right now. Gift boxes and file boxes and then some more gift box shippers, but then again in a corrugated world, tis the season.