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February 28, 2014
Dear Winter,
It’s over….. I am leaving you….. It’s not you it’s me, maybe it’s you. I can’t go on like this. You are cold, and you don’t think of me. You make life difficult and smother everything in your path. You have chosen to be around at the most inopportune times, making it impossible to get to work, or to carry on with our normal everyday activities. You have me locked in the house with no options, you aren’t even fun to play with this year. I know that I can’t change you, I can’t find a way to turn your unfriendly flakes into just the type we need to make a snowman together. The excitement we once felt to be together and the enjoyment we had frolicking is gone, it’s gotten dull and frigid.
I long for freedom, to run in the warm weather, to feel the sun shining on my skin. My children and I need to get out, having exhausted every option for cooped up fun more than once. We are looking forward to outdoor activities, and parks. To pick berries right off the bush, to have the ability to say “go outside and play.” To plant seeds of hope and to watch them grow and flourish. To walk on the beach and have a catch. These are all things you can’t give me.
So, I am asking that you don’t contact me again, don’t call on me… Please stop knocking on my door with your controlling ways. I realize that no relationship is perfect. I will have fond memories of what we have shared and may think of them in the months to come. Perhaps there will be a time that I long for your soft falling flakes and long evenings cuddling by the fireplace but that time is not now. For now I need to move on, to feel like myself again, to enjoy life, to spread my wings.
I truly hope that there are no hard feelings, see you around.
Thanks for the memories.
MJ
Fond Winter Memories 2014
Painting the Snow.
Ice Skating with Uncle (J)
Digging in the rice
Making a snowman out of unmatched socks.
Longing for…. Sunnier Times
Digging in the yard
Eating produce right from the source
