Winter?
18:14:00There's something very beautiful about winter. Fresh snow on the ground, skeletal trees covered in frost. The sound the snow makes as you crush it with your feet. Hot drinks and nights spent inside with friends. Short but happy days spent out on ski slopes, snowboarding through fresh powder snow. Falling asleep with my curtain up and looking out at the town.
These are all things I love about winter.
Winter is my least favourite season, and I'm usually very vocal about this. Yet, when I'm walking home from the shop next to my friend, using the steep hill as an ice rink as we slip down it, laughing until we're crying, our hands so cold they feel stiff, I can't quite bring myself to hate it.
I can't bring myself to hate it when I spend an hour huddled in the cafe-section of our small shop with my friends, trying to defrost slightly before our trek home.
I can't bring myself to hate it when I sit in a cafe with my best friend who I haven't seen in months, stirring our thick hot chocolates and watching our cold breath evaporate as we breathe.
Even I have to admit that I can't say I'm very fond of it when I'm stuck outside, a lot of the time it isn't as bad as I make it out to be. Sometimes it's sort of fun, spending a chilly morning with my cousin, walking for an hour and a half down the tube line to find a vending machine. Our faces so frozen we can barely whisper our complaints about tiredness to each other, but still she finds a way to push me into the snow by the side of the road when I make fun of her.
Winter is everything I hate - cold, dark, silent. And yet, I've found a way to appreciate the small, nice things about it. Sure, I can't wait until the days start getting longer and warmer, and I can actually walk home from school in the light, but at the same time, I'm starting to appreciate this time of the year a bit more.
This post didn't really have much of a point. I was just sat thinking about all the happy times I've had these past few weeks/months, and it made me think. I guess the moral of this post is that 'happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light'.
I did a similar post about Autumn, which you can find here.
I did a similar post about Autumn, which you can find here.
10 comments
This is so nice, I wish we had snow this year... :(
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There's still time! Thanks for reading :)
DeleteLove the Harry Potter quote at the end! I'm so gutted I can't go skiing this year - it'd be nice to see some snow and get out on the slopes!
ReplyDeleteJemima x
anotherrantingreader.blogspot.co.uk
Thanks, I was hoping people would catch it, haha. That sucks! There's still a few months left where it might snow though! I'll cross my fingers for you :)
DeleteThis is such an uplifting post to hear all about how you've found small things that you appreciate and like about winter even when you don't particularly like it as a whole :) I can't deny that I also love sitting in a cafe with a close friend ( or a book ;) ) and sipping a perfect hot chocolate to warm me up !
ReplyDeleteLots of love, Marianne xxx
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Thank you! Cafes are the best, I actually went to one today. It makes it so much better!
DeleteI know what you mean about winter, there are definitely some things that make it hard like darkness and storms but this really highlights the good things too! Nothing beats a creamy hot chocolate on a a winter afternoon. x
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Yea, winter sucks, but the hot chocolate definitely makes up for it!
DeleteI really enjoyed this, such a beautiful read!
ReplyDeleteCarolyn x
Carolyn’s Simple Life
Thank you! I think I want to try doing more posts like this, I really enjoy writing them :)
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