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People are a lot like snow, if you get down to it. We cling to the familiar, pile on top of it and generally stay put until otherwise instructed. Talk about a rather mundane existence. I would like to think I'm the snowflake you can never quite catch on your tongue. The one that missed the zipper on your jacket and flew right past your head off into the distance. I like to keep a hint of mystery, but who am I kidding? People are wildly predictable. That may sound like an oxymoron, but it's not. It is a pretty crazy thought that so many people around the world react so similarly to the same circumstances. We cry when we're hurt, we bleed when we're cut, we die when we're old. Snooze fest, am I right?
Winter isn't my season and falling isn't my favorite pastime. Falling in love, falling for lies, falling asleep when I shouldn't be. Like the seasons, falling is a cycle. There's the inevitable build up: indifference, defining moment, emotion, and attachment. Then there's the head rush when things go the wrong way or sometimes just as badly, the right way. That can't-keep-these-feet-on-pavement feeling because you're either on your knees begging for a clue or wondering what's next.
We always need to know. What the time is, what our next move is, where things are going. Just once I'd like to go down a road without a giant bank clock projecting the time and the weather. I definitely felt warmer when I thought it was 10 degrees than -2 outside. I'd also like to rip up my schedule and hop a train to anywhere: somewhere with a lot less winter and a lot more autumn. Even though I don't like falling, I like the fall.
"You make me melt" makes a lot more sense when I think of myself as a snowflake. Except if we're together, shouldn't we just be even more snow? Or does togetherness just make the seasons fly? Snow can also hang around forever and it gets ugly fast. Cloudy. Sometimes the coldest things are the ones with the biggest back story. Frozen in time.
We're all beautiful and unique snowflakes, they say. But why do some of us face such undesirable fates? Why do some of us snowflakes end up banding together and causing car accidents? Why are some of us part of the snowball that hits a kid in the eye? Frost bite, ice bergs, and melting glaciers. Proof.
Winter isn't my season and falling isn't my favorite pastime. Falling in love, falling for lies, falling asleep when I shouldn't be. Like the seasons, falling is a cycle. There's the inevitable build up: indifference, defining moment, emotion, and attachment. Then there's the head rush when things go the wrong way or sometimes just as badly, the right way. That can't-keep-these-feet-on-pavement feeling because you're either on your knees begging for a clue or wondering what's next.
We always need to know. What the time is, what our next move is, where things are going. Just once I'd like to go down a road without a giant bank clock projecting the time and the weather. I definitely felt warmer when I thought it was 10 degrees than -2 outside. I'd also like to rip up my schedule and hop a train to anywhere: somewhere with a lot less winter and a lot more autumn. Even though I don't like falling, I like the fall.
"You make me melt" makes a lot more sense when I think of myself as a snowflake. Except if we're together, shouldn't we just be even more snow? Or does togetherness just make the seasons fly? Snow can also hang around forever and it gets ugly fast. Cloudy. Sometimes the coldest things are the ones with the biggest back story. Frozen in time.
We're all beautiful and unique snowflakes, they say. But why do some of us face such undesirable fates? Why do some of us snowflakes end up banding together and causing car accidents? Why are some of us part of the snowball that hits a kid in the eye? Frost bite, ice bergs, and melting glaciers. Proof.
Just my little take on human existence. A little all over the place, but with good intent.
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That's a really meaningful take on human existence and one I can't refute. It's very good.