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Everything Ended Yesterday
It was a very sad day
I knew it would happen before too long but I didn’t think it would happen so soon. It seems to happen earlier and earlier each year. And for me there is simply no way to mentally prepare for it. I know it’s coming and there is nothing I can do about it. When it happens it is always a profoundly depressing experience no matter how many times I go through it.
Well, it happened yesterday. We had our first snow of the season. It never accumulated on the ground but it fell from the sky for around forty-five minutes. To look out my window and see it snowing for the first time of the season was thoroughly soul-crushing. It threw me into a whirlwind of despair.
Summer ended just a week and a half ago and now yesterday winter began. Fall lasted only a little over a week. The same thing happened last year. This morning we had a killer freeze which means all the leaves will fall off the trees before they even have a chance to change color. This will make two years in a row without fall foliage. Winter arriving yesterday not only saddened me but it pissed me off!
For me it is always the most depressing day of the year. It’s the day when everything ends. Warmth turns to freezing cold. Light turns to dark. Green turns to gray. Vibrant life turns to dead stillness. Day turns to night. Joy turns to…
