Monday, August 06, 2007

Winter Blues

Calvin & Hobbes has always been my favourite comic strip, particularly due to Bill Watterson's somewhat dreamy wit. This quote of his in particular has always stuck with me:

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

What is it about winter? It makes endings seem so feasible and sings of the promise of warmth to come and new beginnings. As dreary as it gets you, it allows for some serious introspection as you spend mellow days in with cups of warm cocoa and know that the worst has come and will soon pass. It encourages you to be a hermit and allow things to decay with one resonating catch phrase, death and decay is the natural way of life.

So I am learning to accept. Allowing old dreams to die and holding on to hopes of the summer to come with complete new beginnings. The old has lost its bearing.