(A Notes to Self Series)

Quote for Friday, 15 March 2019

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

What’s so wrong about winter? Who doesn’t like all the whites, angel wings, and snowball fights? For someone like me who was born in a tropical country, a white Christmas not only sounds good in a song. It’s also synonymous to the vision of a carrot-nosed Snowman and the myriad geometric shapes of real snowflakes that donned Christmas trees, among others. Who wouldn’t fancy all of those?

Well, I have never seen snow my entire life. Thus, I know you’d forgive me for not knowing what I’m talking about really. I reckon you’d also understand my utter curiosity for what I’ve got no ample knowledge of.

Nonetheless, on a more practical and serious note, winter could mean a number of negative things: stagnation, cold, darkness, decay, and even death. However, despite its seemingly unwanted front, it is a necessary season of life. It is a precursor to spring, to renewal, to life, and to hope.

If you’re at your worst, lowest, darkest, saddest or most difficult point in your life now, fear not. Have faith. All will be eventually well.

Just as sure as spring after winter, hope is inevitable.

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Credit goes to the following sources/resources for this and my other posted blog quotes:

• Goodreads and BrainyQuotes for the quotes,
• Wave.video for the videos or photos,
• WordPress and Canva for some of the photos and graphics, and
• Wikipedia for more information for the quotes’ writers.

Check out all my other previous hopeful and optimistic quotes on this blog here.

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