SEASONS OF THE HEART by Hourig DelDelian

Seasons of the Heart

Nature goes through 4 seasons century after century, the heart goes through endless ones in the span of a life. Whenever a season comes, we are not sure what it will bring, if it will be good, bad, long, short… but we know for sure that like the seasons of nature, the seasons of the heart also come and go… What is different is that some of its seasons leave tracks that we carry deep in our roots despite the changes of time.

We all live with the hope that this will be the best of seasons. And when it turns out to be a stormy one, we hope it will be short… we reason with it for a while, we despair of it for a while, we get angry at it for while… in the end, we look for a glimmer of sense of what it could still have given us… when we fail to see it, we trust that a bigger power had a plan for it that is just too large for us to see at the moment, accept it, and then we are able to welcome the next one…

And better seasons come, they bring joy and love and warmth and all kinds of beautiful things… we rejoice for while, we feel blessed for a while, we are awed by it all for a while and then, after a while, we take it for granted and see it as a way of life and the spark is gone and we strive to find something that will make the season special… We are amazing that way…

What can I say, I’ve had calm seasons, stormy seasons, joyful seasons, painful seasons, rewarding seasons, lonely seasons, loving seasons, tiring seasons… They all had meaning, none of it is meaningless or without purpose, that I know for sure. They all were what they were because of others who contributed to them and because of how I reacted to them… and I am thankful for it all, good and bad, because they mean that I lived, I dared, I jumped, I bent, I stood tall, I took heart, I believed, I hoped, I cried and I felt an abundance of things that I can look back on and say despite it all, despite my mistakes and through my triumphs, I lived while I was alive… and I am looking forward to the seasons still in store, I hope there will be many to come, with excitement, hope and a measure of fear and I will live them with all the courage I have inside… Live while you are alive, it all only happens but once..