It's Spring! It is innate that our minds start wandering to all of the physical things we want to engage in once the birds start chirping and flowers start blooming. It makes sense only because Spring is a time of renewal and growth -- everything dead is alive now. The weather is starting to break and is more enjoyable to be outside (though with global warming, our winters are becoming less and less harsh).
Everyone and everything is awake and ready to be about. I was looking through the house the other day thinking about where I needed to get started with my Spring cleaning, since that is what you do this time of year -- the weather is nice so we stay indoors to clean the dust of off the walls despite the fact that we have been couped up inside all winter and more than ample time to clean.
But I guess that is what Spring does for us -- we decide to become active! As adults we clean, that is our activity. Now teenagers and young adults, their activity is to drink and party at the beach. Thinking about it, that is unfair. I was reading an article today about what Spring cleaning activities you should make sure you handle when it dawned on me that I should not be worried about the dust on the window ledge, but be concerned about giving myself a little R&R in the sun. However, if I showed up at a Daytona Beach or Cancun, or where every drunken teen/twenty something goes, I would look slightly out of place and be annoyed within the first 10 minutes. Let's face it, anyone under the age of 26 is down right irritating. What is worse is that I feel that way and am only in my early 30s.
As I get older, I continually notice how unfair life is - Spring Break is a prime example. When I was a an idiot college student, I never had the money to go away for Spring Break. Now as an adult, I have the funds but not the time (and would be out of place as I mentioned earlier). Instead of packing seven of my friends into a car that only seat four, I will make my Spring Cleaning list and forget about body shots. Hell, I'll probably forget about the Spring Cleaning list, too, and just clean out my liqueur cabinet holing any real Spring activity for another day.
