So the first snow has fallen here, in Slovenia. I must say this year we've waited quite long since last year we had it like in the middle of October. It didn't keep, of course, since it was just a light one and the snowflakes were small, but still I was happy to see it fall. I'm not gonna bullshit you about how magical Christmas is and how we all enjoy it because I think I've done enough bullshit of this occasion last year, describing Christmas spirit and atmosphere. Although, I would like to say how I feel about the whole winter thing, because winter is not just about Christmas and presents and color red. It's more to it and I'm gonna tell you why it's my favorite time of the year.
Now winter hasn't always been my favorite time of the year. For quite some time I've always loved summer over winter and the hot nights and the memories made. It sure is a special season, summer, but the magic, I think, happens during the time where we all gather in some shitty bar because it's freaking cold outside, order some hot chocolate or mulled wine and talk until late hours. That's magic for me and you know what is only accompanying this overcoming generous spirit is the festive atmosphere and bright lights everywhere. Even if you hate cold there are so many cool things about winter and the more I write about it the more I can't wait for more snow to fall, more hot chocolate to drink and more spontaneous chats to start. I must say I don't ski or snowboard due to an accident few years ago and since then I kinda have a 'phobia' of skiing or any kind of thing when you slide down the snowy hill, but I like to watch winter sports anyway. I think I even used to very much dislike winter due to it slowly turning its beautiful white blanket of snow into brown and grey dirt in the side of roads. This type of winter usually comes in January or February when we're all pretty fed up with the snow and Christmas-y bullshit and we just want green grass everywhere and happy birds singing already. And I'm not saying this is the best part of my favorite season, but it's the bad side of something I love, like everything we love has a bad feature or attribute. Even the people we love, but we still keep loving it because what we love about it conquers the bad. Now here are some of my favorite things about winter:
1. First of all I must say I just love the fresh smell of air in the cold winter mornings. It brings whole new hope in your bones and the feeling of starting over. It's beautiful when you wake up and see the whole surroundings covered in white blanket of snow and everything is in complete silence and satisfaction. Everything around you is so slow and sleepy and for a moment you think time doesn't exist. You think there is no bad and evil in the world, you think all animals are happy and that nothing can ruin this happiness and nirvana right now. We are here and we are worth of filling this place up, worth of being a part of it. I'm in love with this poem that goes:
It represents how you're a part of everything that is going on in the nature, you are here because of someone, someone else is here because of you and we live on by this symbiosis.
2. The second thing I simply love about winter are the indispensable bright colorful lights all around us. In the city center, in the nearby, in your house and the neighborhood. They're all around us reminding us of this beautiful time of the year. They make any kind of thing more magical or just simply more interesting and festive. Each time I walk through old city center and see all the lights hanging everywhere something inside me moves. It makes me feel better about the future, it makes me forget just about anything that worries me right now and I try to focus on the present and enjoy each moment. Song that brings Christmas cheer in your soul. It's a beautiful song by my darling Coldplay and it makes me wanna just decorate everything already, go out in the cold winter night and laugh with friends. It actually does that to me and it's even more strange to me. But I'm happy that I feel like that about something. Some people don't have passion about anything and I feel sorry for them because they have nothing to passionately sing, write or talk about and share and pass that love to others.
3. The next fun thing about winter (involving snow) is playing in the snow! What else is better then feeling like a five-year-old again and letting your childish side of you be creative? Throw yourself into the soft layer of snow and make a snow angel or make a snowman. There's nothing wrong with letting your child within you let loose and explore the good sides winter brings. Like a little girl I've always played in the snow and make all kinds of sculptors outside of my house and really enjoyed the time spent building them.
4. I love how the night sky in winter is always somehow lightened up. And because of that I love the late night winter walks. Just walking down the near walking path, dressing up warm and enjoying the sound of your footsteps in the snow. You have time to think and, like mentioned before, you can enjoy the unbreakable silence all around you. You can kill the war in your mind and relax, you have no obligations, no worries, all that exists is you and the nature around you. Sometimes these things do help.
5. Now let's get down to the main thing in winter: Christmas! I love the Christmas decorations they hang outside every little shop and how they all try to make it look festive and holiday-like. It's a special holiday, we must confess, since it gathers so many people back and you are surrounded with love and this calm feeling. I also love the Christmas shopping. How when you think of your loved ones you try to pick the best thing that will surprise them and make them happy and when you walk around the city there are big red bows everywhere, green decorations that remind on branches of the fir and new products involving Christmas and making it something special.
Through each day we think nothing changes but when we look back, everything's changed and that kinda scares me. Each year we are different people, with different problems, filled with new hopes, surrounded with new people, wishing for something else. But each year we try to make it special and I think that is what bonds us all together. The adrenaline of starting over, starting something new. Even if we don't do it right away, as soon as the idea occurs to us that means something new has grown inside of us, something different, dragging into different direction. It forces us to be creative and having the will to maybe change or changing the way we live, changing or sorting our relationships. And you come to a conclusion that things don't have to be so complicated as they are. Love, after all, connects us. If we just go with the flow, let loose, life will show us the right path. Sometimes some things are better left unsaid or undone. Some things just have to be left there and you'll be surprised if you don't focus on the small stuff you will be finding yourself focused on the important ones and so the small staff will sort on their own. That's how life works and that is what is, for me, special about winter. Because when the year is coming to an end you realize all the things you've done in the coming-to-an-end year and by the end of each year you make a conclusion of what you will from now on only worry about and what is not worth of your constant attention. You have to have things handled and sorted out like this otherwise you just burn out.
But there is also this side of all this "becoming a better person" deal; you don't have to wait the whole year to make something true. You don't have to wait for the New Year's to set a goal for yourself because there is no such thing as time so that you can wait until December. That's just some thing Mesopotamians invented and we went along with it for centuries. It's only an excuse to keep delaying things and not getting to it. There's a proverb that says: "Good comes to those who wait." Well I say: "Good this come to those who wait or better to those who get up and get shit done." That has been kinda my guidance through the past year and the level of my self-esteem and courage has obviously increased. I mean, I still get hugely insecure from time to time, but I dare to do things I never would this time last year. And I think everyone has got to dig deeper inside and find that thing they want to improve and do it, because everything's doable. And that's what I love about Christmas in general: it fills you with new hope, like with new destiny and destination. Whole new adventures lying ahead of you.
1. First of all I must say I just love the fresh smell of air in the cold winter mornings. It brings whole new hope in your bones and the feeling of starting over. It's beautiful when you wake up and see the whole surroundings covered in white blanket of snow and everything is in complete silence and satisfaction. Everything around you is so slow and sleepy and for a moment you think time doesn't exist. You think there is no bad and evil in the world, you think all animals are happy and that nothing can ruin this happiness and nirvana right now. We are here and we are worth of filling this place up, worth of being a part of it. I'm in love with this poem that goes:
The moment you realize
that your bones are made of the same dust
as the planets,
your lungs are breathing the same air
as the migrating butterflies,
and your blood is pumping because
of the love and care of thousands;
is when you realize
that you are not as broken
as you think you are.
You are full
of the world.
It represents how you're a part of everything that is going on in the nature, you are here because of someone, someone else is here because of you and we live on by this symbiosis.
2. The second thing I simply love about winter are the indispensable bright colorful lights all around us. In the city center, in the nearby, in your house and the neighborhood. They're all around us reminding us of this beautiful time of the year. They make any kind of thing more magical or just simply more interesting and festive. Each time I walk through old city center and see all the lights hanging everywhere something inside me moves. It makes me feel better about the future, it makes me forget just about anything that worries me right now and I try to focus on the present and enjoy each moment. Song that brings Christmas cheer in your soul. It's a beautiful song by my darling Coldplay and it makes me wanna just decorate everything already, go out in the cold winter night and laugh with friends. It actually does that to me and it's even more strange to me. But I'm happy that I feel like that about something. Some people don't have passion about anything and I feel sorry for them because they have nothing to passionately sing, write or talk about and share and pass that love to others.3. The next fun thing about winter (involving snow) is playing in the snow! What else is better then feeling like a five-year-old again and letting your childish side of you be creative? Throw yourself into the soft layer of snow and make a snow angel or make a snowman. There's nothing wrong with letting your child within you let loose and explore the good sides winter brings. Like a little girl I've always played in the snow and make all kinds of sculptors outside of my house and really enjoyed the time spent building them.
4. I love how the night sky in winter is always somehow lightened up. And because of that I love the late night winter walks. Just walking down the near walking path, dressing up warm and enjoying the sound of your footsteps in the snow. You have time to think and, like mentioned before, you can enjoy the unbreakable silence all around you. You can kill the war in your mind and relax, you have no obligations, no worries, all that exists is you and the nature around you. Sometimes these things do help.
5. Now let's get down to the main thing in winter: Christmas! I love the Christmas decorations they hang outside every little shop and how they all try to make it look festive and holiday-like. It's a special holiday, we must confess, since it gathers so many people back and you are surrounded with love and this calm feeling. I also love the Christmas shopping. How when you think of your loved ones you try to pick the best thing that will surprise them and make them happy and when you walk around the city there are big red bows everywhere, green decorations that remind on branches of the fir and new products involving Christmas and making it something special.Through each day we think nothing changes but when we look back, everything's changed and that kinda scares me. Each year we are different people, with different problems, filled with new hopes, surrounded with new people, wishing for something else. But each year we try to make it special and I think that is what bonds us all together. The adrenaline of starting over, starting something new. Even if we don't do it right away, as soon as the idea occurs to us that means something new has grown inside of us, something different, dragging into different direction. It forces us to be creative and having the will to maybe change or changing the way we live, changing or sorting our relationships. And you come to a conclusion that things don't have to be so complicated as they are. Love, after all, connects us. If we just go with the flow, let loose, life will show us the right path. Sometimes some things are better left unsaid or undone. Some things just have to be left there and you'll be surprised if you don't focus on the small stuff you will be finding yourself focused on the important ones and so the small staff will sort on their own. That's how life works and that is what is, for me, special about winter. Because when the year is coming to an end you realize all the things you've done in the coming-to-an-end year and by the end of each year you make a conclusion of what you will from now on only worry about and what is not worth of your constant attention. You have to have things handled and sorted out like this otherwise you just burn out.
But there is also this side of all this "becoming a better person" deal; you don't have to wait the whole year to make something true. You don't have to wait for the New Year's to set a goal for yourself because there is no such thing as time so that you can wait until December. That's just some thing Mesopotamians invented and we went along with it for centuries. It's only an excuse to keep delaying things and not getting to it. There's a proverb that says: "Good comes to those who wait." Well I say: "Good this come to those who wait or better to those who get up and get shit done." That has been kinda my guidance through the past year and the level of my self-esteem and courage has obviously increased. I mean, I still get hugely insecure from time to time, but I dare to do things I never would this time last year. And I think everyone has got to dig deeper inside and find that thing they want to improve and do it, because everything's doable. And that's what I love about Christmas in general: it fills you with new hope, like with new destiny and destination. Whole new adventures lying ahead of you.
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