Winter

A strange thing has happened to me this year. Its odd, because I've only lived in cold places. I've lived in Utah and in the even colder Alberta, Canada. However, I hate cold. I hate snow. I hate skiing and snowboarding and ice skating and all things winter.

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 Until........the other day I was walking to pick up one of my daycare kids from school and I realized that the chilly air was.....invigorating? What is this, I asked myself. I am opposed to cold. But it seems that after almost 27 years I finally have become accustomed to the cold and dare I say, embraced it? And then, yesterday it snowed.

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I have been dreading snow because I take kids to and from school. Kids that are not my own children. Kids that I would be horrified if anything at all bad happened to them. I feel I am a good driver, but driving while it snows can be dangerous, especially since there are crazy drivers out there! I managed to get all the kids to school safely and then I was driving back and watching the snow fall and it hit me. Snow is beautiful. So it made me think, life is like winter. There are always going to be good and bad. You choose what you see. I used to look at snow and think only of the negatives. Cold, scary roads, etc... However, I now look at it and enjoy the beauty of it. I'm going to do my best to start doing that with my life, too. There is beauty all over and it is up to us to find it in our own lives. There may be clouds and rain and thunderstorms, but if you look closely, somewhere there is a silver lining or a rainbow. Something good can be found in every day.

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