A spring in each step

The evenings are getting brighter, the days are getting longer. It could only be by a minute or 2 each day. But it's happening. More hours in the day, to do more things, to be more active and to live a little more. More time to feel alive and make the most out of each day. A totally different approach to each day compared to 6months ago. People are happier and full of beans. People feel more energized and look forward to the months ahead. They have a little spring in their steps and a smile on their faces. People suddenly take the effort to say "hello" to strangers and wish them well, on their daily-doings. Heads are lifted, backs are no longer arched and legs don't feel as heavy as they once did. They walk along, and the all-consuming thoughts and worries that once made their eyes focus on the ground, are no longer there and people can notice the difference in themselves and in others. Surroundings are suddenly there and properly seen, as if noticed for the first time. Sounds, smells and sights all rolled into one that secretly force people to become aware of the meaning, the feeling and the life.

Our bodies are in-tune with each season that changes and each season to come. It's a natural force. Each body, that belongs to a certain hemisphere and climate, is in-sync with the changes that come along with them. And that's why going into "hibernation" after each summer isn't dwelt on. It's something that's normal. Everybody knows that after hibernation there will be Spring time to look forward to. And every person yearns for it as it is that what the body needs.

Spring-time, the time of year that people have been waiting for. The time when all the dark months are behind us and the bright ones are still to come. It keeps us on our toes, as the weather changes. It's proven that people who have always lived in places with 4 seasons, and suddenly don't have them anymore, can become off-balanced, feel uneasy, unsettled, moody or even depressed. Their bodies aren't used to not undergoing these changing in their environment. The weather stays the same but the body needs a change of climate. It's waiting for it, but it doesn't happen. However it doesn't have to effect everybody who no longer finds themselves in the climate they belong, but it can. But what does happen, is that the weather at hand is then suddenly taken for granted, because it's always there and therefore appreciation is something of the past. Living in a different climate where there's no change of seasons means there's no way the mood of life can grasp onto anything in order for it to be uplifted.

Establishing that it can vital to live in the climate which your body is accustomed to, surely also means that we're always chasing after seasons? Always wanting the next one to come and therefore wishing away the one that is being experienced right now? Doesn't that just make the current season somewhat irrelevant? Why go through life knowing that year-in year-out you'll experience the same feelings of darkness, in either the sense of sunlight or in the sense of personal moods, that each season or particular month can bring with it? Some people are already hating certain months, even before they arrive, just because the time of year in which they take part. They set themselves up to feel down for a whole month. What a shame that is.

Ask anybody you meet, what their worst months of the year are and everybody will at least have 2 or 3 that they dread. Doesn't this mean that said people spend 20% of their lives, wishing for it not be taking place in the time, season or month, that it's happening? When it's Spring, people enjoy it for a few weeks and then are waiting for Summer. Then it's Summer, and if there are hotter days, people want it to be cooler and start waiting for Winter, so it's cold outside and cosy inside. But then everyone wants the Spring again. It's a cycle, ongoing and it will never stop. So when will we be able to say, yes I love the way it is right now and am not going to wish it away?

If we already know that there will be cooler times and warmer times, brighter hours and darker hours, then can't we just stop chasing after it, because it will happen with or without us wishing away or wishing it to happen.. Can't we just take each season as it comes and enjoy what it has to offer instead of always wanting something else? Because of this, we become immune to what is happening right now. (But Spring is always the season to put a spring in every step..hence the name!). So then, wouldn't it not matter if the seasons did or didn't change, seeing as though we'd be too much focused on wanting what's to come and not seeing what is right here right now? We wouldn't be in-tune with it, we wouldn't be switched-on, we wouldn't see it. And still we want and need for these changes to happen..

Without them, we miss them. With them, we're never satisfied. We know they'll be happening, yet that doesn't always make us happier. We can't be at ease until we see it with our own eyes. And that's what's happening now. People are seeing, smelling and feeling. As I've been told so many times before.. you have to go through one season to experience the next. When things stay the same, there is no balance, there are no opposites and no comparisons to be made. So is that why there is such a thing as 4 seasons, to experience appreciation, gratitude and balance? Which then gives us security, sanity and vitality just to live and be..

My darkest days, where during the brightest months. My brightest days, were during the darkest months... My mood and my feelings were never influenced by the seasons. The sun, the rain, the wind, the clouds, the snow.. My own personal weather forecast was different to that of my surroundings. I was immune to it all. But I know that, around about now, my own season is in-sync with the season of my surroundings. A lightness, brightness, a flutter and some joy.. and after the past few days there's not a doubt in my mind that this is my time to be leaving. Because this evening, as the day is brighter, my mood wasn't..at the thoughts of being here and feeling so great. But then I have to appreciate why I'm still here right now. Not to wish it away. Not to get down. Yes, to look forward to traveling, but also to not forget the here and now. I don't need to feel alone or sad or upset anymore, there's no reason for it. It's the changing of the seasons.. No more tears in my eyes, just a brightness that shines through, making every change an vital one, no matter awkward it might feel.