This morning has TPP looking out the window pondering how seasons seem to come and go so quickly. One minute you are enjoying the long, hot, lazy days of summer and then boom, the temperatures are dropping, it is dark when you wake up, evening daylight is short and winter is well on it’s way!
Now TPP understands that sometimes the six months between mid-summer to mid-winter can almost feel like an eternity, especially when you are hanging out for a summer picnic at the beach or to hit the ski slopes in winter. But you get to that beach picnic or ski slope and then those days pass in a flash and we are in the next season already.
There are many of you that due to your countries close proximity to the equator, your temperatures and daylight length are not dramatically different between winter and summer, so this may not be a thing for you. Instead your seasonal differences are more defined by dry season and wet season… but there are changes depending on the time of year.
If you are a summer person, you most probably count down the months, weeks, then days to when daylights savings starts, as this is the signal in many places that summer is almost here. But if you are a winter person you will probably be counting down to the month when snow usually starts to fall in your part of the world.
The time between summer and winter can be quite paradoxical – it seems a long way off but it passes in a flash!
One of the other things about different seasons – when you are freezing in the middle of a cold winters day / week, it is very hard to remember what it feels like to almost melt due to the heat on a hot summer’s day (or how dry it gets in the dry season versus the wet season).
Your homework today is to look out your window and ponder the current season out there and how much it has changed from the previous one (has it just changed so no real difference or are you close to another new season so quite a dramatic change). Then ponder on what it would be like to be currently in the opposite season to the one that you see out the window – summer to winter or spring to autumn.
Ponder away!
