You know, it hit me again a few days ago. Do we ever? Fit in, I mean. We've been here now for over five years and though it does feel like home, there are some things that we're just not in sync with.
Christmas is one of them. I never feel it coming. On this side of the globe it's the back end of Spring, Summer is just around the corner, no matter how many Christmas decorations are thrown at us, I just don't feel it's the Holiday Season approaching. I'm just too used to the wintery feeling and I guess I need it to sense the holiday spirit. You know, leaves falling, life shutting down for the long cold months, snowstorms, icicles and frosted windows. The fresh and crisp air and the stillness of a snowy landscape. The sound and smell of a burning fire in the hearth. Then again, I get to be in the pool or the ocean in November, getting a suntan, surrounded by flowers and colourful birds.
Another thing struck me again... we had a couple of really hot days and someone said, with relief in their voice, that we only needed to hang on a little longer because soon a southerly wind would come. And I was like, how's that gonna make anything more bearable? Any hotter and we'll melt. Of course, in the next second I remembered that, Down Under, the southerlies are freezing cold. Can't really get any closer to Antarctica than that...
On another note, I've done all my xmas cards last night. Finished around 2h30am. Yep, crazy me.
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