winter sucks.
i'm sorry, but i do not share the sentiment of winter excitement that so many seem to have. it's all over facebook. the only complaint i've heard is that there is not enough snow yet. i tried to take a positive stance. i even thanked God for the beauty of the dusk, as the snow seems to glow in contrast to the darkening sky. but that lasts 15 mintues, and compared to the 15 hours of darkness, it doesn't stand a chance.
last night i couldn't bring myself to wear my huge winter parka, unwilling to admit winter has come. i was humbled shortly after freezing my ass off, and now i wear the freaking parka...with another 6 months to go of this. the other day i had a car full of teenagers, ready to take them back to school as their class was about to start. sure enough the north wind froze my old grandpa car; it wouldn't start, and so they chose to run to school rather than accepting my piggy back offer. they were inevitably late for class.
but don't get me wrong, i'm not dissing anyone who remains positive about winter. i say good on ya! i just can't muster up any positivity on the matter. i'm also not stuck in pessimism, i just love the heat. the summer of 2007 we had a crazy heat spell, and i just ate it up. i was just in fiji for crying out loud, and i recall more situations of being too cold than too hot. maybe i'm just not made for manitoba.
i guess the only light at the end of the tunnel is another one of those character building things. i know that the joy of the Lord will come upon me if i look to him rather than my situation...it's happened so many times before, and it's real and it's true. i was just telling my friend matt braun (for some reason me and my brothers have to call him matt braun...and never just matt) that my life in the last five years has been a constant seach for this joy in the midst of life not going my way. constant. he could appreciate that.
but there's joy.
real joy.
if i just receive it.
so...here comes another season (both literally and figuratively) of joy seeking and character building. hooray!?
oh summer, when whilst thou come again?
6 comments:
you just need to keep damaging the environment up there in the good ole north. i mean, look at what global warming has done to europe! there's practically no more winter here...didn't used to be that way...
great thinking!
now all i have to do is to go against everything i stand for and start polluting!! who would've thought it could be so easy?
"i just can't muster up any positivity on the matter" - uhhh, christmas?? sheesh. stuffing? flipping hot coffee? longjohns? sparkly things? free stuff? GREAT baking? free great baking?
i leave my house at 715am arrive at school at 730am at that time i need to change my shirt because my backpack has made my back so sweaty that it goes right through my shirt...
it is so hot; it is awesome
_lisa o
you HAD to rub it in my face.
oh, and i'd probably trade christmas for a sweaty shirt any day. i celebrate jesus' birth everyday anyway.
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