Seasons
Autumn is coming. I can't explain why this makes me so nostalgic, can't really pinpoint the feeling it gives me. It's almost like a hopeful, expectant feeling. I think that I feel about Fall how others feel about Spring. Spring is when everything is happening, blooming, growing, existing and being beautiful. Fall is when leaves start dying (although they look pretty while doing it) and things start hunkering down, preparing for that Winter hibernation. So why do I feel so much when Fall is coming? I get excited.
Things always happen in the Fall, I suppose. Just different things than Spring things. It's linked to school starting back and to the beginning of the holidays. Summer flings turn into serious relationships that, if they survive all the way through Winter, could turn into the real deal. The air turns brisk, and it tastes different. Feels less like you're wading through it and it has more of an atmosphere, almost a certain sound. And of course there are scary movies, haunted houses, Fall chili parties, scarves, cinnamon spiced things, roasted pumpkin seeds..the iced coffee turns hot and you get to trade in your bikini for soft hoodies that make you want to sink down inside your bed and exist there forever. Most Alabamians would tell you that football is the reason they love Fall. I don't consider myself a true southerner, but I do take delight in the silly rivalries that come to surface between Auburn, Alabama, and LSU.
It's a time for families to be together and for friends to make more time for each other around bonfires with s'mores and on a couch for hours with popcorn and a classic, campy horror flick. In Summer, things are kind of on hold for me. I don't do much- I just relax, reveling in that delicious sunlight that makes us all so lazy. I wait the entire Summer until it's time for my beach trip at the very end, first week of August, I don't work too hard, and if I'm in school I slack a little on the class load. But in the Fall, everything happens. Time starts to speed up a little bit after we get out of that Summer haze.
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Things always happen in the Fall, I suppose. Just different things than Spring things. It's linked to school starting back and to the beginning of the holidays. Summer flings turn into serious relationships that, if they survive all the way through Winter, could turn into the real deal. The air turns brisk, and it tastes different. Feels less like you're wading through it and it has more of an atmosphere, almost a certain sound. And of course there are scary movies, haunted houses, Fall chili parties, scarves, cinnamon spiced things, roasted pumpkin seeds..the iced coffee turns hot and you get to trade in your bikini for soft hoodies that make you want to sink down inside your bed and exist there forever. Most Alabamians would tell you that football is the reason they love Fall. I don't consider myself a true southerner, but I do take delight in the silly rivalries that come to surface between Auburn, Alabama, and LSU.
It's a time for families to be together and for friends to make more time for each other around bonfires with s'mores and on a couch for hours with popcorn and a classic, campy horror flick. In Summer, things are kind of on hold for me. I don't do much- I just relax, reveling in that delicious sunlight that makes us all so lazy. I wait the entire Summer until it's time for my beach trip at the very end, first week of August, I don't work too hard, and if I'm in school I slack a little on the class load. But in the Fall, everything happens. Time starts to speed up a little bit after we get out of that Summer haze.
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My favorite thing about fall is Halloween. I like to say that I had a baby just so I could go trick or treating again.
ReplyDeleteHaha. That makes sense to me
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