Fall apparently started in the wee hours of the morning today, at like 1:50am. It didn’t automatically become Fall Weather, however, as I am quite sure I had a hot flash around that time so grabbing the closest hoodie was the last thing I was going to do. That is the fun of aging as a woman, apparently. Another thing for another time.
All the Pumpkin Spice people have been Pumpkin Spicing for weeks already. I am not one of them, I tried the PSL one time, and felt I had been lied to by clever marketing. It was not delicious or even remotely pumpkin flavored. The whipped cream they served on it was the only redeeming quality it had, and it wasn’t even good whipped cream. Lessons learned, for real.
All the haste to get to the next season has begun to wear me down over the years. I just want to tell the people to relax, and slow down a little bit. It’s not just fall or the holiday season, as those are the ones people want to rush the most, but the whole year. Stop wishing away where you are right now, in this minute. Believe me, time will move fast enough without you pushing for the Hallmark channel to move to the Christmas movies they never really move away from!
I am two and a half months away from my 54th birthday. That’s coming in fast. I don’t feel so old or anything, but the number baffles me. How did that happen so quickly? I was just in my 30s. Except I wasn’t. It’s 20 plus years ago already. It goes so fast, the time. You spend a long time wishing you could get to the age you are old enough to do things. Then you get there and wonder where the time went?
Your time you have now is far more important than the day in 3 weeks that you will finally wear that hooded sweatshirt and the leaves start falling from the trees. Don’t wish away today waiting for the Christmas sales to start. You can live for today and those seasons will still come along. Something that seems so far away will be here before you know it. I promise, it will happen much faster than you realize and be gone before you know you even know what happened. Pump the brakes, and enjoy today.
I am not trying to be a Debbie Downer here, go spend your day lined up at the pumpkin patch if that is what you want to do, but don’t wish away tomorrow to get to Christmas faster. The best thing I can do is tell you that the time you are pushing for will arrive, and it will be gone fast. You have time, but just like your weekends seem to go by in a blink, so do the years. When you look back and say “Coco was right, that time flew by” I hope you filled every crack of your time with fun things, boring things and everything in between. All days can be great days, or they can be a bummer, but it is your time to live. Little moments are often much better at filling your heart than big things, and if all you are doing is counting down to when the sun is at a certain point and crosses the hemisphere so you can line up at Starbucks for the PSL or whatever, you are missing a lot. For crying out loud, there were Flamingos in Wisconsin just yesterday, the last full day of summer!!
The seasons change, and come and go every year. They do so very quickly, and once you realize just how fast the time is moving, I hope you have a lot of time left, so you have a greater appreciation of all of it, not just this season, or that day. It is all such a gift. By the way, Margaritas are available and delicious all year long. Never out of season. Take that, Pumpkin Spice!!
Coco's Veiw of the World 