It's Called Character Building

     Character Building is known as any task, activity or event, that contributes to our personality, maturity, assertiveness, etc...The idea that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's often used as a sarcastic phrase as most people believe that difficult events in our lives build character. Here are a couple prime examples: 

Parent to Child Convo 1: "Cleaning the dog pen out builds character" 

Convo 2: 

Child: "Mom, there's no more hot water and I need to take a shower"

Parent: "Looks like you'll have to take a cold shower"

Child: "But I have to wash my hair" 

Parent: "It'll be good character building for you honey" 

     These are all well and good, but let me tell you, true character building is training for a 100 mile race in MINNESOTA during the WINTER.  And no, you can't avoid running outside in -35 degree weather because do you realize how many days are -35 in Minnesota?! Most.    Which means if you avoided it, then you would be running 50 miles a week on a treadmill for five months... which is even tougher character building than running outside.  

Here is a myth buster too: It's not true when people say at some point cold is just cold.  There is a drastic difference between -20 and -35 and -50.  Each one is much colder than the previous. Negative twenty is where you can walk outside with your arms casually by your side instead of folded in front of your chest trying to keep the warmth in.  Negative thirty five is where you put your head down and walk as quickly as possible from point A to point B; some people even decide it's worth it to yog from point a to point b, but full out running is not necessary.  Negative fifty, on the other hand, just flat out hurts; everything about the air hurts, which means mouth breathing is painful and nose breathing is just simply out of the question. With this being said, I AM PROUD to say that I have decided against running outside when it is -50 and opted to have my cutoff be at -40.  Now that's intelligence.  

I think my icicle mascara is the next thing... don't you?