I'm an October baby. I love it with all it comes - the rain, the colors, the cold, even the storms and darkness. I know people started this thing a while ago; saying fall is their favorite time of the year, and I usually hate when that happens. It's a stupid thing to feel, but every time I enjoy a particular thing and it becomes popular to enjoy it - I abandon it (This happened the first time after the band Rooney played on OC California while I - in my teenage naiveness - assumed me to be the only person to know them). However, the point is - even though I do tend to abandon popular gone things, I still LOVE fall.
It must be a really strong relationship then - mine and fall's, at least after taking that concept into account. Let me explain to you why that is. While people say spring is when people fall in love and summer is when love blooms - I think fall is the time of REAL love. Spring and Summer might be the time when people feel lust or passion, but fall is the time when people get to concentrate on themselves.
So how is that? For once, there's less activities to do outside, we get to sit inside, drink tea, read books and just be for once in the spare time that we have.
Our lives get cozy, we get to snuggle in the warmth, knowing the cold is creeping up on us outside. Kind of what we tend to do when we're in love. After all, being in love is just that little bubble that you can concentrate on - that one good thing that's keeping you going - even though you know there's no escape from that big dark cloud called human mortality.
In fall, instead of going to town and surrounding us with all kinds of distractions, we usually surround ourselves with silence. I like silence. It makes you become more aware of who you are, makes you start to think about the world and what you appreciate most. Instead of concentrating on skin and the obvious we concentrate on thoughts and feelings.
Fall makes me focus on what's most important to me - and that's Max.
Juli
(I know I should have substituted 'we' with 'I' - I'm probably just some weird person who's alone with that belief. Additionally, I don't like heat.)
