Life And Four Seasons

Enjoy the present, after which, we just have to move on...

Last week I shared a little passage written by my younger self. It was well received, better than I had anticipated. It shows my younger self seems more popular than the older me. I was a little sad, but I couldn’t resist my younger charm.

I was full of dreams and aspirations then. A time when I longed to travel the world to see the four seasons and immerse in different cultures. My first overseas travel didn’t happen until my early twenties. It was to the United Kingdom for my undergraduate study. I lived in a different country for the first time and experienced the four seasons.

I quickly learned that there is so much to love about each season and yet so much to lose as the seasons change. Summer arrived even though I wasn’t ready to part with the flowers, and Winter came even before I could use my Sunscream.

The change in season is almost like the change in the phases of life.

Here is a piece about life and the four seasons written by my younger self.

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Everything about our lives are like the four seasons. There will be a time for it to come together, for the joy to manifest and happiness to spread. A time for the flowers to bloom and the birds to sing. This is the time our hope rises with the sun.

Sadly many of us will take for granted, the moments, the colours and all things beautiful. Because like all seasons, everything has its time and space. Even the most beautiful flowers has to wilt and the greatest day has to end, a time when beautiful thing has to come apart, when dreams have to come crushing down.

This is the time our hearts would be filled with hurt and our eyes overflowed with tears. Yet if we think about it, if we can take good things for granted why can’t we let good things go with equal ease? If we didn’t cherish the good time in the first place, why would we be sad when they are gone?

Life is such. Be strong, wipe your tears and dress your wound, cos if there was anything anyone could do, it was to have had enjoyed the process while it lasted.

Enjoy the present, after which, we just have to move on... to seize the other great big things that await us.

Farewell today, I’ve done my best to enjoy every minute. Hello tomorrow, I am ready for my next chapter.✌️

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Since then, I have travelled and lived in several countries. Looking back at this piece again, it reminds me of those times when I would drive into the woods whenever I was free to enjoy every season’s unique view and landscape. Not only to take in a breath of nature's wonders but also to let nature take my breath away.

I have learned how to enjoy every moment, a habit that has helped cultivate a writing instinct in me, to capture all of life’s magical moments in simple words and expressions.

Time waits for nobody. The only thing we can do is enjoy the present, after which we just have to move on... to seize the other great big things that await us.

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