The fact that I love metaphors is well documented throughout my blogs. The more the reference occurs organically in nature versus how well it accurately describes human tendency or my situation, the more smitten I am the metaphorical application of it.
Looking back, I know specifically that I have referenced the four seasons in my writing. I have mentioned the Fall and it's dying nature and how it applies to letting unnecessary relationships die off. I have also alluded to the Winter season and how we must stick to the bare essentials of what we know in life to make it through adversity much like trees do with photosynthesis when the snow hits. Lastly, I invoked the Spring season to speak to new beginnings in my life as well as opportunity. Somehow, I have never utilized the Summer month to apply to my life.
As a Michigander, I have dealt with back to back ridiculously cold winters that started early as well as the slow-to-start summers. I am someone who thrives off of new experiences, meeting new people and being asked to do what I have never done before. So I ask, how in the hell have I missed poetically referencing the season that naturally shows us the most growth and the most expansion? Shame on me so, here goes.
When I first starting blogging on New Years Day of 2013, I made the pledge to fix my heart and mind after a divorce, challenge my body and mind to be stronger and also address the life-long monkey on my back of fiscal responsibility. How does that look now?
I have buried the divorce hatchet with my ex-wife and have a remarkable, co-parenting relationship with her. My heart and my mind are healed from the wound of divorce, watching as it ages almost a third year now. I can argue my mind is stronger but I did not stick to the physical workout regime I promised so I type this with my body not in the physical stature that I want it to be in. Lastly, my finances are in the same position they were back then. I am in a great career, have made bad decisions and am unable to purchase a home in the manner I would like.
Having admitted and accepted all of that, the opportunity I have in front of me for growth in and out of the workplace is much like nature has every summer; limitless, depending on how much it wants to fight for. I am not sure I have ever been in a position to gain so much ground physically, career-wise, emotionally, financially and psychologically as I have right now in front of me.
Will my efforts become the growth I end up weeding out this fall before I button down the hatch to survive the proverbial winter or will I be able to effortlessly hold higher ground with the new roots I have established? I recognize the fight is mine as I acknowledge that right now, I am the worst version of my potential self.
It's all uphill from now but damn it all, the view looks great.
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