Feel the Spring Breeze
The early morning air has changed from biting cold to crisp freshness. Nights are shorter and the days are now longer. How wonderful it is to welcome spring. Everywhere that I look everything is turning greener and brighter. The birds seem to even be chirping louder! Soups are swopped for salads, pull overs are swopped for summer dresses and nespresso’s for iced tea.
I stand next to the pile of breakfast dishes with my hands in soapy water as I daydream. I can see myself all decked, in my shades, my sarong and not forgetting my iced tea with a book to read. Aaaah bliss… Months and months of this warmth as the days just get longer and the sun just gets warmer. I can feel my shoulders bake in the sun and the water splashes from someone’s canon ball.
My dreamy smile turns almost upside down into a frown. I look at the dishes in the sink. Before I know it this too; this time, this season, this moment and this day dream will vanish and evade me. With so much to do like sort out cupboards, spring clean curtains, walls and light fittings, it should be a good few weeks before I get all that done! It could take some time before I get to bake a bit in the warm summer sun, Sigh….
But what if…. What if I paid more attention to what I would like to do than to what still needs to be done? What would happen if I didn’t do everything all at once? Would it be so bad after all if I took some time out for “me”? For afternoon dips in the pool or for lunch with my friends? Would it be ok to do something for myself once in a while? Surely there’s more to living, more to life and more to my days then the mundane activities of aligning my spices in alphabetical order or making sure all the t-shirts in my sons cupboard look like the shelf of a department store.
What if I spent equal amounts of time on what needs to be done and what I would like to do for myself, what would happen? Would anyone mind that I took a few minutes for myself? Absolutely not! In fact, I can almost here my family say “go right ahead”. So I’m left thinking that perhaps my days are crazy ( like me) because I do very little (if anything at all) to minimize their craziness. It seems that I may do very little for “me”! Perhaps I feel drained out at the end of the day because I do nothing to energise myself and invigorate my soul. In fact I don’t even pay attention to them. Perhaps if I started to appreciate, value and take care of me then those around me would do the same.
No day in history can ever be repeated and not a single moment can ever be recaptured. Use the lens of your mind to snap shots of spring showers and summer pool parties. Before you know it the time will pass, the season will change. Pool loungers will be swopped for snuggly blankets. Iced tea will be swopped for hot chocolate and salad for stews. Spring has just sprung and summer has almost begun. Make it memorable. Make it the best memory of your life and for those in your life.
Remember, there’s always more to spring then just the spring cleaning.
