Spring

It’s finally Spring! Gone are the heavy jackets and dark-colored clothing, the annoying scarves and gloves that make you want to scream each time you have to open your iPhone with Touch ID. Now it’s the season of floral mini-skirts and light stockings. The season to go on picnics and not worry about taking walks late at night because it’s not that cold or dark anymore. It is Spring, and it’s time to show off the tops and shorts we’ve been stocking up on since the Fall sales begun.

I grew up in a tropical country where the only seasons you get are the rainy and dry seasons. Where there are hot temperatures throughout the year and winds during June and July to make us claim it’s “cold”.

One reason why I was excited about coming to Germany is because here I can experience the four seasons distinctly. Everything turns orange at around October and leaves fall from their trees, in late December the first big snow falls and melts away by March, making way for the leaves and flowers to regrow freely and attract all the beautiful birds and bees back. It’s a beautiful time, and I’m yet to experience it fully.

One other exciting and interesting thing about Spring is the idea of ‘love is in the air’. It’s often said and implied in all kinds of art that Spring is the season of love. What I think is that this comes with the association of birds and bees and flowers to love. Maybe it’s just a social construct but it makes sense that all that goes together with love simply because love is beautiful and in some way colorful, just like all those things.

So take out those picnic mats, cameras and bikes and go outside. Go see the beauty that was underneath all that heavy January snow. Take those nice shots for your Instagram, because you can. Lastly, enjoy and smile, because when Winter comes again and the snow will catch you when you’re in a different continent, and not in the city you wanted to be in, with no idea whatsoever how to be calm about it and you won’t be able to smile then because it’ll be way too cold to do that.

Photo by my friend Ally