‘Whatever The Weather’

Watch as the sun rises and falls, each day passing into the night. Time escapes, right in front of your eyes. With every second, you await your expectations of the world around you, defined by pattern and familiarity. 

Take a glimpse through the years, at the change of each season that rotates around your life. You admire the beauty and hold onto the relief that letting go of the last season brings.  But the longer the season stays you begin to grumble over the things you never liked  or even the things you once found beauty in, again impatiently awaiting the next season to come like a child on a long road trip clamoring on in the backseat of a car.

 As every change passes, affecting you for better or worse, you change nothing. You do nothing. You anticipate every new season, you think you know exactly when it comes, exactly what to expect of the season ahead. It’s familiar and it’s comforting, until  a long awaited winter’s snow comes months later than you hoped and turns into a harsh storm instead of a glistening white winter’s day and a warm summer’s night turns to an insufferable wave of heat.  

Look outside, look through the transparent glass of your window. The world doesn’t hide change from you. Every moment something new is happening, small changes like the rustle of a few leaves being carried by the wind across your street. The singular raindrop that falls on your window pain and drips down the glass. The small bird that swoops down, scouring through  dirt  to pick up a twig for it’s nest. 

The changes in the world and the changes in your life are all apparent, they can all be seen right in front of your eyes. The changes themselves is not what you care about, in fact the changes themselves sometimes make the best of moments. It’s the effect they have on everything else that brings you a sense of unfamiliar and uneasy caution or excitement. 

The thing is, you decide how you are affected. With change that blows through the wind, you decide whether to stifle the breeze around you or let the wind flow through your hair. You decide how to answer to the changes and effects on your life, even if your answers change more things around you. Whatever the weather, you decide if it’s rain or shine.