How Seasons Teach Me to Embrace Change

Perhaps this is more of a reminder to myself than it is anything else. The past few days have been some what exhausting for me — I can really tell that there’s a change of wind in the air, Spring is defintely on its way and I can see it in the sky … how we’re about to enter a transition.

Whether these transitions are good or bad, well … they’re dependent, on how we see them, if we feel it serves our needs … but if you just take a moment to step back, and appreciate them for what they are, then you’ll see that they’re neither good or bad, they’re just part of life, and all we can do is embrace them.

I was just thinking about this laying in my bed, you know, how seasons work. In the Spring the air is cold and warm and cold and warm, finding itself, trying its new skin on for size. During this time, people often find new life with the flowers blooming and the sun shining more often — the days growing longer by the hours and the colors of everyones eyes beginning to change. We tend to our homes, we clean .. we assess what was, and what will be, and during this time, maybe it’s in our best interest to do what the seasons ask us to. To be patient with ourselves, to welcome the changes, to leave the winter behind us and open ourselves up to the Spring. During this time, change will be persistent, and we may feel uneasy, but perhaps we take this time to just experiment and observe and put new intentions into the world to feed.

Then … Summer will come, and we’ll have the long days to live our lives in this extraverted effort — taking part in the wild of these months. Then Fall will come again .. and we begin to settle down again, we listen to the seasons and what they ask of us .. we begin to throw layers over ourselves, trying process everyting which was Summer, trying to take the time to change once again, to transition once again into our newer selves. Then Winter … a closing of the year, a reflective time, a time where we seek the comforts of people, of ourselves alone even, something familiar, something warm, but not Summer or Spring warm, something more deep inside of us.

I’m just thinking here … about how we can just learn to live with the way the world changes, how it is intended to be. We don’t need to fight it, we don’t need to always be happy, or sad — or rather, we are multi dimensional beings … with so many moments to bloom, and other moments to wilt. It’s okay if we feel burnt out or stagnant, because like seasons, we’ll have our moments to bloom and shine — all in time.