Autumn

The air swerved around me getting gradually colder with every step I took, with every inch that the sun sunk and the shadows and darkness grew. Autumn likes to toy with you I've noticed. It'll chill your mornings to the point that you can barely get out of bed, tempt your afternoons with a little bit of summer while you stare out the office window enviously and then freeze you out at night while slowly dwindling anything green, anything alive.

For a society that's so afraid of their own mortality we sure love to see the beauty in death I thought as I walked every day watching the trees around me slowly grow yellow and orange, watched while they danced for the last time in the wind as they fell all around me. Passed the storefronts cheerfully decorated with everyone happily welcoming fall. I can see the appeal of this new season, the way everything cools out and that nip in the air that magically slows everything down. I wish more of us could use the same perspective of accepting and appreciating the way a season expires and transforms in to another. Instead of seeing death as an ending we'd be able to see it as part of a natural cycle, an evolution, the next step.


There's so much more you can appreciate when you take fear out and focus in the wonder and beauty of a moment, of the stage you're in no matter how simple or how common it may seem to be.