Awesome or depressing? (It's all relative)

Today it snowed in Rochester. Most people were really sad/upset. I thought it was beautiful. Everything is so relative. When it looks like it did this morning and it is November, everyone is wild with excitement about the first snow. But now that it is Spring and we are sick of winter, that same snow storm causes us to be depressed. What are you looking at in a negative light that could be shifted just by what you are comparing it to?