Why do we talk about the weather?

"Hi, how are you!?"

"Great! Isn't this great weather we're having? I hope the rain holds off..."

It's inevitable. We talk about the weather with the retail clerk, the post man, someone on the street- really anyone with whom we don't share any other direct commonality- and when the weather is exceptional, most of us will comment to anyone!

Why is this? Is it because we're superficial, or is there something deeper to the subject?

It occurred to me while pondering this thought that, we are all affected by the weather in some way or another. It must be culturally ingrained in us to speak about the climate conditions.

Years back, when the majority of the population lived directly off the land, planting their own crops and raising their own animals- there was a direct correlation between the weather and the survival and well-being of that family. Realistically, there still is today, we're just more removed from the process.

It is my belief that we talk about the weather because: we saw and heard our parents to do, it creates an immediate connection with the person we are speaking, and innately we know that the courses that nature takes will directly affect us at some time. We are intimately involved.

Nature is the distant lover from whom we cannot emotionally separate.