Spring. Nature and people, we all come back to life

Everything is reborn again. Trees, bushes - even people.

First I would like to say, that spring is a very good and somehow also a forgiving time for all of us. The grass which was cold, perhaps covered with snow on the frozen ground is suddenly green, soft, and practically screaming for you and others to sit down and have a picnic. I love this time of year.

For me personally, it represents some kind of resurrection that I have a hard time explaining not only to you but also to myself. Spring also gives me a feeling, that "everything is going to work out". Perhaps you've noticed some sort of feelings like this, or experienced the same thing as I have. I sure hope so - it's pure divinity.

Now I've written a great deal about loneliness, and how to live with lots of problems and how to overcome obstacles in life and so on. I now want to share with you, dear readers, some of the best I know too, also because I really do not want you to get the wrong impression of me as a depressed soon-to-commit-suicide kind-of guy :D I assure you dear readers, that, I am not. I might be a lot of things, but those qualities have never been in my possession. And not even by choice, but just by being who I am no matter what I've been and will go through and up against. Springtime gives us the hope we really need, and therefore the tools to have ourselves a great summer with our real friends. Perhaps sitting outside as much as possible, maybe having a beer or six, and enjoying having the privilege to be alive at all on this beautiful earth of ours. With the sun shining, summer already well on its way, we can enjoy this we've been given or should I say blessed with. We might only have late afternoons and evenings to enjoy spring outside with friends due to school or work, but it's a good start for the summer that will soon come, and give us a little bit of spare time in form of vacations and other holidays, depending on what we do and where we live in this world of ours.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I think spring is a forgiving time. A time filled with second chances for us all. Even though we sometimes have to stay inside for days due to rain, we can still smell the rebirth - as I call it - outside, even in the cities, especially near parks - especially if or when we are forced to go somewhere. I even enjoy, as most people do, a nice weather while sitting inside talking to friends or doing work or playing. Maybe "facebooking" a little, writing updates that make our lives look like we've got no troubles. Ever. This is common through the year for many social-media addicted people, even in the winter and actually no matter when, hehe.. :)

  I've often wondered how close humans (homo sapiens) are to the earth and its riches, like the grass, as we normally call it. It softens up with the earth and soil, starts to grow again like it's on steroids when spring and summer comes, just as most of us humans are in better moods in the morning which really doesn't happen very often during the winter or the dark months, just to have something to compare with. This I have witnessed in public transports like trams and trains these last few days. And looking in the mirror - I don't see what I want, as usual - but I can live with it much better now. Did springtime, the change in seasons, give me some more power or how should I explain what I mean? Am I stronger, is my self-esteem better now that it's blooming around me? I couldn't possible tell you the answer to that, but my advice is to just enjoy it and not sitting at home or wherever, wondering about what's happening and what's not. Those things are not in our hands. Spring is a time of hope. We all get second, or maybe our fiftieth chance in our own ways. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Take advantage of all this!

Now that spring is turning into summer, please try to remember what made you happy and what you have enjoyed during the spring, and perhaps do the same with the coming, already somewhat started summer? It won't hurt you, and putting up a few words on a paper each day most certainly won't kill you or anybody else for that matter.

  I, myself, am waiting for tomorrow morning, when I can wake up and smell not only the coffee, but also the nature's own odours - and be happy to still be here, alive (like the nature outside), and in good health. We who can do this, most definitely are the happy ones - "the winners". So plan your summer well, vacations, holidays and all, because there's not much time to lose if you want something out of this coming summer. Take everything you can, mother earth looks generous this year.

I wish a good end of spring, and an extraordinary summer to all of you!

Yours, filled with positive thoughts and ideas,

Tomas Luoto