EDIT: The original title was simply "Awesome Cold Showers"
Many of the most enjoyed moments in my life -- moments when I really was living the moment, and appreciating and enjoying every element -- were often after "bad" moments. Not bad like war or trauma or anything, but like my best camping moment ever was when it had been raining for days, we were cold and miserable, but then the sun rose and it was a warm day and that day, with everything drying, warmth, and comfort, suddenly everything was brighter and better than it had ever been. The meal we made over the fire was next level. My best moment skiing was having a long, tiring and intensely cold day and then going into the blazing hot cabin to sit by a fire and have hot chocolate.
I make a french press pot of freshly brewed coffee and honestly the experience quickly becomes....meh. It's just coffee. But then I go on a business trip for a week, where I can only source mediocre coffee, and suddenly come home and my home coffee is just revelatory. It is just something I can sink into and sit in awe of.
So cold showers for me are like that. It is intense discomfort to reset the baseline, and suddenly warmth feels exhilerating and wonderful.
Only downside is I live in a desert so the water from the tap is warm when it's summertime.
I think a cold shower in the morning, when I do make it happen, gives me a can-do and energetic emotional state for the rest of the day. Force your body to start moving, and the mind follows.
This is a plot, a trick, a ploy. You're all some sort of environmental mega zealots, trying to trick me into cold showers to save hot water power costs. I won't have it, I won't.
</You're all monsters!>