#Perspective – A Late Winter Closing

I’ve never minded the cold. Winter can be a great valid excuse for sticking close to the security of your own surroundings. Especially when they are well-heated by whatever means exist. Wood heat certainly serves the place I call home in a very good way.

A few years ago, the Atlantic winter was colder than expected. My travels and places of residence across this great country have exposed me to lower temperatures, so it was easy to adjust. It just seemed to drag on a little bit longer.

One memorable week in March, Nova Scotia saw significant amounts of rain, a bit of snow in other regions and flash freezing. With the snow having taken a pounding, it appeared that winter was heading for a later exit. It’s easy to dispute such a thought when you consider that spring technically started later that week. It’s just a matter of climate perspective I suppose.

I turned my mind to thinking that perhaps one of the reasons winter stuck around longer that year was to freeze out so much of what I had been through. Time to warm up to a fresher frame of mind perhaps. I refer to the whole concept of perspective. It is a good way to look at the bigger picture of what is actually happening. An encouraging thing really.

Spring is a refresher. It is going forward. Something I continue to work with on a daily basis.

Regardless of what kind of winter you are experiencing, in nature or life, reflect positively, look at the lessons learned and how far you may have come or how far you now want to go as a person. Explore your own thoughts of ambition. Examine your winter survival kit and look at ways to add to it.

Despite so much that went on in my life that year and withstanding multiple attempts at being knocked down, I am still here and still standing. I have survived grief, loss and a sense of feeling alone even though I was far from it.

Surviving the longer winter has made me stronger in every role I willingly take on. I’m a better writer, husband, pet-parent………Person.

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