About weather, despair and holidays
By the end of October, when the trees seem weak and desperate, and the temperature drops down to inappropriate values, and freezing wind brings dark clouds, any normal person seemingly must think: "all right. It is cold and rainy, and it is to remain so for 6, in the best case scenario 5 month, throughout which it will only get worse and worse, and no hopes for relief may be raised... So, where is my Walter? Bang!" Instead, what do they think? They think: "halloween is coming! The grocery stores are full of pumpkins, apples, autumn beers&ciders special! People are preparing to dress up for parties, and how lucky is that! The weather is terrible, which shall be a perfect punishment for dozens of those stupid eighteen years old girls, who wear sexy-kitten-basically-naked costumes and get frozen while walking at the parades!"
When the halloween celebrations are over, it slowly becomes totally disastrous outside. November weather is usually about as nice as troll's snot: it is cold as balls, ugly wet leafless trees stare at you in a lonesome grief, if for some reason it is not raining for 15 minutes you are like "wow! It is not raining!" etc. Any reasonable person is just committed to commit a suicide in a hot tub, but no! Thanksgiving is coming! And turkey, and stuffing, and sweet potatoes, and what are those fresh deals on amazon for Black Friday?.. All right, the hot tub may as well wait!..
Then December breaks in. Everything becomes not just disgusting, but white and disgusting. People split into two categories: those who pretend they " loooove winter and snow and skiing and skating and yeehow!" but then, I am sure, cry and shiver in the night, and those honest ones like me, who hate this terrible freezing white nonsense. Everyone is ready to go and drown themselves in the rivers under the ice, but wait... Christmas is coming! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the grocery stores sound like a shiny holiday boom box, and how dare you not to smile when you hear those joyful tracks from the roaring forties?! How can you leave the store unhappy if you carry peppermint candies, and chocolate oranges, and Hershey's chocolates, and... And... And how about those christmas trees/poinsettias, at last hannukiahs, sold all around? How about those lights hanged to every single live fence? Fuck this icy river and enjoy the holiday season, dude!
All right, then the Hanukkah is over, and the Christmas is over, and the New Year is over, and then it is totally over, and finally really completely over... And you find yourself frozen in the middle of January, all depressed and craving for the sun with no hopes to see it anytime soon... If you are not mentally deranged, all you are left with is a rope and soap... But no! What about the Valentine's day? If at that time you are involved with someone sweet, waiting for Valentine's day really does bring sense to your life; if not -- hey, isn't February the fourteens much better day for a suicide then right now? In the case you are Jewish -- well, just keep calm and wait for Purim, why not?..
Once you have made it through till mid February, you look back and you are like: "wooow! I have made it through! Now I can just relax and wait for spring to come!" And you spend one or two desperate month waiting for spring which seemingly should be here by now, but for some reason it is elsewhere...
And finally, victory! Spring comes, sun is out, birds are singing, the day is long, you are a hero and god bless that smart person which invented holidays!:)
PS: I acknowledge how horrible my written English is; however I like writing in English as well as playing guitar as well as doing math!
Some fall pics:
