The Reasons We Cry

The Loneliest Snow

Snow, beautiful, white, pure, clean, quiet, calming.  Such a beautiful site to see the first snowflake in the sky.  Watching it float gently to the ground.  One individual snowflake after another falling from the heavens. 

Snow, like so many things I am observing in my journey, is full of memories.  More than I had ever even noticed.

Close your eyes, what do you see?  What do you hear?  What do you feel?

Snow is its own special kind of nearly perfect event. 

I hear laughter, I hear giggles, I hear screams of Joy.  I see sleds, things that shouldn’t be used as sleds (haha), I hear mom “can we pleeaaasssee let the dog in”, “do we have hot chocolate?”, I hear “where’s my other glove?”

I see kids flying past the living room window down the driveway.  I see a pile of soggy wet gloves, socks, coats and hats in a pile on the laundry room floor. 

I feel.  I feel.  I feel and feeling is okay. 

To be clear I am not sitting around looking for reasons to be melancholy.  I am observing, evaluating, processing and experiencing life from a drastically different perspective. 

Writing is sharing those experiences in the hopes that I can move the needle for even just one life.  Make you think about how precious what you have right now truly is.

Move that needle in the direction of appreciation of all the beauty that surrounds us, you, me this very moment.

Missing the moments in our life or not valuing them to the fullest because we are to entrenched in our jobs, what others expect of us, keeping up with the “Jones’s”, literally shit that at the end of the day doesn’t matter is like missing the emotion, the energy, the feeling of seeing that first snowflake fall. 

Appreciate it, say thank you. 

Devour the fall of the first snowflake in all its splendor and perfection. 

If you miss it, you may find yourself sitting someday in the paralyzing silence of the loneliest snow, too quiet, too perfect, cold.

Colleen Marie DeShazer

The Reasons We Cry – A Journey of Learning to Be Alone

Things to Ponder