It’s midnight and snow is falling

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. It’s the same every year, yet always different. While cold weather brings rain and snow into our souls, there is still space for the sun to light up our dreams and desires. I remember the first snowflake last year. It was midnight, too and I didn’t know what was to come. If only I knew. 

It’s the past, though, and we’re done with our past. This week was nonetheless very much like one of those I had last year around this time. Full of loneliness, misery and suffering. I was like Leo Cohen. I didn’t consider myself as a pessimist at all. I thought of a pessimist as someone who was waiting for it to rain. And I felt completely soaked to the skin.

But the lightness of the snow brought some hope and colors. And I feel like me again. I still can taste it, too. 

 

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” ~ Frederick Keonig

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.” ~ Alfred De Musset

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.” ~ Alex Tan

“Music is what feelings sound like.”

“Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.”

I thought of that old joke: This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken.’ And the doctor says, ‘Well why don’t you turn him in?’ and the guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships. They’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd, but I guess we keep going through it because most of us need the eggs. – Alvy Singer

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. – Walt Whitman

 

~ by Lenka Bliss on November 29, 2008.