| For many of you, the sun has reappeared. Those of us living in places where the sun never really goes away can't fully grasp what spring means to people living in cold climates, places that actually have seasons. I grew up in coastal Maine, so spring is still a big deal to me. Spring means the sun is back. Spring means the UV index and the thermometer are creeping back up. Spring means you can start to tan and generate some vitamin D. I love that feeling of renewal when spring rolls around—the change in the air, the shift in the universe. So you might think that I'd prefer to leave Miami, move somewhere with seasons, and inject some seasonality back into my life. After all, I miss feeling renewed when spring came. Right? No. You'd be wrong. I still prefer having sun year round. I still prefer the climate of Miami (or Malibu) to the climate of Montana, Maine, New York, or Ohio. Seasonality is good, but it's not better than having shirtless weather, swim weather, spend-all-day-outside weather all year round. Not to me, anyway. This is the strange conundrum of the human condition. We can like two things that contradict each other. I can like year-round sun and also miss the seasons. I can like the seasons but ultimately prefer not having them. But still also want them. Too often, people are too hard on themselves for having these "contradictory" preferences or beliefs. As if they're upsetting the fabric of reality or something. That's not how this works. We can be contradictory. We are contradictory. Those contradictions don't all have to be resolved. They can just be. This isn't true for all contradictory beliefs, positions, and preferences, of course. Sometimes you do have to choose. But usually it's not that serious. What contradictory beliefs do you hold? Do you think you should resolve them, or are things going okay just letting them be? Let me know in the comment section of New and Noteworthy. | 
