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I am constantly and consistently nagged to spend more time outdoors. I am told it helps depression, I would feel better if I spent more time outside, and getting exercise. Since I hate doing both I've figured might as well kill two birds with one stone. The problem is how to make it tolerable.
I can't endure cold very well - I experience it as physical pain. If I'm out in the winter too much my extermities start to sting the same way as putting disinfectant into a wound stings. Trying to dress for the weather is an impossible task, I am either cold or then immediately start sweating and then freeze. I live in Northern Europe so it's cold for about six months out of the year.
The other problem is sunlight. Being in Northern Europe, the summers have significantly more sunlight than winters do, which makes summers just as unpleasant. I do not tan, at all, ever, I simply burn, and once the sunburn heals I'm just as bluish white as I was to begin with, and I hate the way sunscreen looks, feels and smells, and enduring it is just as bad as being burned.
If I was living in a climate where it actually gets dark in summer nights and the winters aren't intolerably cold, I could imagine being outdoors would be tolerable after sunset, but where I live there isn't a single time of the year when it isn't either too cold or too sunny outside for it to be endurable.
I don't particularly enjoy wind or rain, either, having wind burn my skin either hurts just as bad as cold or sunburns, or at least feels as disgusting as sunscreen, and the same goes for being wet.
How do I make being outdoors more pleasant, or at least tolerable enough to make myself endure it as often as I'm told I'm supposed to?
