Seasons and Personalities

My favorite season has always been the summer.  Its just something about those hot days that seem to go on forever and those humid nights that make me feel all the possibilities that seem to be all around me.  So, needless to say I am excited for this summer just as I am every summer. With just 3 weeks of school left its so hard to sit through it at times but I have plenty to keep me busy.  There are just so many things I want to do this summer! I want to go out of town, go to concerts, have sleepovers and pool parties and just enjoy everything life has to offer.  I have a theory, weather has an effect on people's moods and I think I have always had a summer personality.  Warm and exciting and so nostalgic but oh so comforting. There are some people that have autumn personalities.  When I think of autumn I think of the first day school.  I love the first day of school, the elementary  ones were the best.  When you had the meet the teacher nights and ice cream socials and you went in your classrooom to see your desk with your name on the plastic nameplate in the neat handwriting of your new teaching.  Looking at the names next to yours and wondering what they were like... where they booger-eating freaks or your new best friend?  After meet the teacher night I would anticipate the day we would go back-to school shopping! Not for the new shoes, or the new clothes but for the notebooks and pencils... To this day the smell of an un-opened notebook make me smile so wide you'd think it hurts! My new highlighters to color code my notes and assignments and mechanical pencils.  My favorite school supplies.  So when I think of autumn people I always picture that kid that on the first day of school sets out to become your best friend.  The one who doesn't seem to care that they don't know your name (or in my case how to pronounce it! ) and all that maters is that you are there and you both like to swing.  I love the way as a kid you can strike up a conversation with anyone anywhere and its okay.  I think autumn people are outgoing, and courageous, and social butterflies.  When I think of spring, obviously I think of new beginnings and all the metaphorical aspects, but spring seems so optimistic to me.  Like its always so hopeful.  I picture people that are quiet and beautiful.  Who continues to unfold daily into something better and better.  The quiet soul, the artistic soul, the often forgotten but always mindful.  Its funny that I don't have a personality for winter. I know you were looking for it, but I just don't see it as a person, but more like a condition, a situation or circumstance that all three seasons need in order to be what they are. Winter is my least favorite season.  It is so pretty and amazing to look at, but so difficult to live through.  I think though that as I get older I have grown an appreciation for winter. Its easy to live and love when everything is easy and bright and summer-ish, but it takes great skill to learn how to embrace and enjoy the winter for what it is.  Instead of trying to make it out to be something its not, hotter, brighter, more eventful there is such beauty in learning to explore what it does have to offer.  To me it offers wisdom and self discovery. What else is there to do in the house but to be creative in trying to find happiness in the dreary-ness all around.  I think winter challenges all other seasons to be better, and when people learn to find and keep that happiness all round it is truly an accomplishment.  Because at that point you stop being happy because it is summer, or because you have money or because of whatever, but you are happy because you are happy!  Happiness breads happiness, it multiplies itself many times over and sometimes you have to lend it out and even borrow some at times but the more you try to keep turning it over onto itself and finding new aspects of it it breads more and more.  I've just become to appreciative for all the different types of personalities and variations thereof.  Sometimes I watch people and how they interact with other people and the things around them and its so funny!  How one person can find something so interesting while another could care less or how a person can find the smallest things a blessing while other people take them for granted.