“Winter is coming”
The trend on this catch phrase may have come and gone, but the fact still rings true every year. Winter is indeed coming.
What this phrase was meant to do was serve as a warning. Prepare, plan, hibernate. Of course, that’s not at all what modern society does. Instead of prepping to shut the world off like we’re suppose to, it plans to fight back against Winter.
Like most seasons, we’re faced with internal and external conflicts. We’re encouraged to do things that go against our better judgement; spend money when we don’t have it, buy mass produced instead of handmaking gifts, and brave snow storms when we should be at home.
There’s also the Holiday strife, which often forgoes instinctual and ancestral reasoning in favor of preserving modern traditions. We bicker over names, fight against celebrations, and listen to lies told by self-proclaimed historians who never read any history (or worse, are hiding the truth).
Regardless, the Season marches on, unaffected by our petty human turmoil.
Simply put, the Winter Season does not belong to a religion, nor a person at all. It belongs to Nature, so we should be treating it as such. The ‘reason for the season’ is simply that it’s cold, dark, and the Earth is resetting.
It doesn’t matter what your beliefs are; Winter Season is coming, and we all need to prepare and celebrate by whatever means we deem proper.
One of my many decorative snow flakes I hang ever year in ‘The Snowflake Room’ (aka the back porch). I’ve started creating decorative holiday themes for every room after being inspired at work a few years back.
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