I have been thinking in analogies a lot lately. I have this one that's been in my head for a couple days, but I can't figure out which is the analogy for which.
See, Minnesota in the fall is beautiful! I love fall. It's all windy, and sweepy and romantic. But it's a fling, - it doesn't last long. (That's not the analogy, but you can see how they're coming to me, but maybe more metaphors than analogies anyways...)
Minnesota fall is like being in the prime of your life. You wait for it, wait for it to come, then it gets there and you realize the progression to a season of your life that you feel like you can handle, - that progression doesn't stop. It doesn't slow down. You have to try to enjoy it while it's there, but you're just gonna get old.
Next thing you know it's 30 degrees and snowing.
It may sound like a really depressing thought-pattern, but I was just thinking about how I've done that so much already in my life. Longing for the future, waiting for a time that I know I'll enjoy but letting the present just pass by. I count down the days, then the days fly by and keep flying. I feel like the older I've gotten, my awareness of time passing makes time seem to go faster. Just yesterday was a year ago. And a year ago? That was just three!
Anyways, I don't know if fall-into-winter is an analogy for wanting to "grow up" and live life, or if wanting to get older and realizing that it never stops is the analogy. I think the first one. [I'm not very articulate today]
