Good-bye dreary winter…and we are also on the way to saying good-bye to the pandemic.
Winter yields to cheery spring. About a month ago the longer days created a good feeling and in spite of the snow it really wasn’t a bad or overly cold winter and I realized that too. Winter isn’t my favorite season but the noticeable changes when the winter season moves toward spring always perks me up and makes me feel good. It’s a feeling I would not have had if I lived where there wasn’t a cold winter.
The scientific miracle of multiple pharmaceutical companies developing what seems to be effective vaccines can only bring hope and joy of a brighter future, and a soon-to-be normalization of our lives or at least to bring them back to where they were pre-Covid-19. There were many hardships but also some important lessons we learned. The pity will be if we dwell on the past hardships and not expand upon what we learned and some of the new things we grew into, even though we were forced into them.
I recall the Shelley poem that said, “if winter comes, can spring be far behind.” I remember it from my freshman college English literature class. However, I am hesitant to quote it since Shelley was some sort of a political gadfly and without knowing everything about him that I possibly should, and possibly do not really care to want to learn, I do not want to be associated with him if there is anything odious that anyone could attribute to him and then to me. So, do not take offense at my including him in here. However, it seems that the poet wasn’t speaking about the weather but wanting his dull and dead thoughts to be scattered like dead leaves by the wind so that new and fresh thoughts can regenerate in him.
That is not too bad for us to want and to do coming out of this bad season (and I also do not mean the weather).
Tonight my friends, let’s drink a toast to a brighter season ahead.
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