Happy New Year once again! Join me on a quick journey. This might seem long, but I promise it will be quick. Grab a seat and enjoy!
The new year always brings talk of new goals, resolutions, and changing of old priorities in hopes for a better life. The new year brings a season of hope and possibility. I believe for the most part resolutions are made with great intentions. However, what happens once this season passes? Once the newness of the year has faded, and all the decorations are put away, what then? We settle back into the busyness of day to day life, and often our resolutions become a passing memory of woulda-coulda-shouldas and maybe next year. My point of this chat with you today is not to talk about resolutions. It's to talk about our seasons in life. You see we all experience seasons in life, just as we experience seasons of the year.
There are four seasons in each year. Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall. Each marked with specific dates and conditions, depending on where you live. I live in North Carolina, so sometimes in the winter it snows...and subsequently everyone then rushes to the store to grab bread and milk- much like the Hostess Twinkie Apocalypse of 2012. No kidding! However, on other winter days we rush around wearing flip flops and shorts because it's 60* outside. You learn to expect the unexpected here in the south. And while some would say we never really get a Spring (except for the two weeks a year my car is covered in yellow), we do have four distinct seasons. It ranges from cold to sometimes extremely hot and humid. I -for one- am thankful for the seasons. It gives you something to look forward to. In the sweaty summer with a/c blasting we dream about having a white Christmas. Yet, when it's frigid and Jack Frost is nipping at our noses, we wonder when sweet summer time will be back again! I think as humans we can never be truly satisfied with whatever season we are in! We either look back on the previous season with longing or we look ahead for the next with hurried anticipation. We don't like to experience any season in which we are not completely comfortable. And let's face it there aren't many days in which everyone would agree it is completely perfect. Except of course for my favorite time of year -in the fall- when I can turn off my heat AND A/C and have all my windows open to let the wind blow freely throughout the house. Ahhhhhh, but I digress... :)
