I was entering the first day of the summer with light rain outside the window, where I was always loved. Summer might be the most excited season for everyone, especially for kids because they don’t need to go to school. Summer lies between love and hate for parents; time they need to set up their work schedule for a small vacation go somewhere and spend time with kid after the cold season has passed.
However, seasonal changes always make people feel tired of the weather, which is not stable one day cold and another day hot, making people easy to get sick at the same time. The process of change always brings an unpleasant with satisfying at once; it ceases to get noticed when thinking about stepping into the next season of the year. In my opinion, it brings such a noise and excitement, I never give changing season any attention or give them any meaning, because basically it has no name. For me, no name doesn’t mean nothing; it always carries a big meaning for me in some sense. It is time to prepare to get ready to look back and see whether we are on the right track of our goal had been set in a year, whether we are still in control or let the time of a day with 24 hours wash us away, whether we are ready, learn, and practice hard enough preparing the glorious achievement at the end of the year. Sometimes, I carelessly forget that I just have the same amount of time as everyone else, so I waste that valuable time in a day doing unnecessary things and then keep complaining about being unable to do this or that within a short time. Those regularly brother me years earlier.
Observing the seasonal changes has helped me understand a significant lesson: Don’t ever underestimate or overlook anything; even if the thing doesn’t have a name for it, it still brings something that we humans are arrogant and lazy to see.
Summer often goes with such a beautiful scene and relaxing feeling; lying down on the beautiful beach with a cup of coconut water, time for travel, road trip, BBQ party, or just a small garden back of the house full of flowers and herbs.
This year’s summer is unlike any other to me, surrounded by ordinary things that surprise me with a very different feeling that I normally do not experience. The street across wears beautiful green clothes made from huge trees lined up, a cozy look right in the first month of summer. I get up by alarm made by nature, hearing bird chirping, the sound of leaves rubbing against each other from the orphan wind (which we usually call in my home country), and sunlight shining through windows. Those things every day make me feel how grateful I am to feel and see how nature can be beautiful like that. Perhaps changing seasons means something special to me, reminding me of my memories that I forgot. Might the reason be spending to much time on screen, checking email, mindlessly look on social media post has literally dulled our senses to the profound beauty and raw emotions of the real world?
I realize that no matter how many tools there are on this day to help people entertain or spend time on screen to relax, nothing can compare to the real things out there. I can see, feel, and touch, but I cannot take it and own it for myself. Have you ever notice that the smell of the wind in the air is totally different in every month? And, I think I cannot feel and embrace it when paying attention to the virtual world.
I am ready to step into the next season, with so much fun and a lot of things need to be done. Don’t forget to word hard and also relax hard, because our body need to maintain energy for keep doing and performing the good work.
Summer is officially coming.
