Opposites Are Attractive

A great and I think unappreciated category of pleasures in life is the luxury of contrasts. It's particularly relevant with temperature. For example, sitting in a hot tub on an outdoor porch when it's January and snow is falling. Your body is immersed in nearly scalding hot water, but you have icy air washing your face and shoulders. It's terrible from an environmental perspective - all that energy! - but it sure feels nice. Or sitting outside on a porch glider while it's snowing, wrapped in a comforter with a mug of hot chocolate. Being really thirsty, and drinking, at the same time, is related but not quite what I mean.