The title sounds so dramatic doesn't it?? I was actually thinking today how much I really don't like this time of year. Summer is fading (like my youth ha ha). Fall is hinting in the air but just isn't quite ready to arrive. We are sort of stuck in between. Waiting.......like an abandoned prom date in a shiny new dress. I've been in such a funk lately. And I'm not the only one. Posts on Facebook and conversations with friends attest to the general overall glumness of this time of year.
The set of the sun in the sky and the smell of the air always.....always take me back to the late summer of 1986. Why that year and no other I'm not really sure except that it was when I found out I was pregnant with my son. Being young, single and planning college in the fall I certainly wasn't even remotely considering such a condition.
Funny how life often lobs us curve balls when we least expect it. It was a very emotional and dramatic time in my young life. Needless to say it all turned out well in the end but to this day those same feelings get stirred up simply by the turn of a season. An amazing thing the human brain.
But now I'm starting to snap out of it. I just bought the new In Style magazine with its slick pages and pages of fall clothing coming out (yes I'm very shallow and easily amused ha ha). I'm looking forward to a long overdue vacation coming up. Like all things, memories and feelings fade into the mist and we move forward with the act of living. To feel emotion is to be alive. With the good comes the bad. I welcome and enjoy every part of this amazing life.
I hope you do too.
