As my eyes open and adjust to the morning, the sunlight comes through my window and leaves a glow on my bed sheets. The bitterness of the morning eats at me as I try to bury myself back into the warmth of my blankets and pillows. My alarm noisily screams at me to get out of bed. As I get ready I have to wear a sweatshirt due to the temperature of my room, and yet I still shiver. My room continues to fill with the sunlight coming through my window, and once I am finally ready, it becomes time to drive to school.
As I get into the car, the cold seat seems to sting me, and I freeze until the heat starts to kick in toward the end of the car ride. I look out the car window to see the buildings pass by as we drive, and the sun has almost completely risen. I don’t even have the urge to listen to music, just to sit in silence as we drive. I think about how winter is so far from summer, and I still have so much school to get through. Once we arrive at school, I get out, and the bitterness of the cold fills me once again. As I breathe in and out, little clouds of smoke form from my breath. I have to hurry to get into school, and once I go through the doors, the coldness washes away and I’m relieved with the blessing of the heat.
At the end of the day, I run back out to the car, and the cold attacks me once again. On the way home, I already feel tired because I know it will be dark in only a couple of hours. Sitting at home, I watch the sky go from a dusty gray to an orangish yellow to finally no light at all. Just darkness. The night is black by the time 6:00 pm comes around, and it feels as if there is no day left. I do homework, and I stay up until 11 pm. Before I fall asleep, I have to turn on my heated blanket and get what feels like one thousand blankets and pillows in order to stay warm. I finally close my eyes and open them, what feels like moments later, just to repeat another gray, sad day of winter.
Lucky for me, spring has arrived. Days are longer, nights are shorter, and my happiness is at its peak. I wake up to no sun aggressively shining through my window and a soft breeze throughout my room. The comfort of my blankets is enough to keep me in bed all day. As I get ready for the day, I realize the morning is quiet. No birds chirping, no sun shining. The world is still at rest. Once I complete my morning routine, it is time to drive to school. I open the garage, and for the first time, I feel warmth instead of bitterness. I get into the car, and as we drive, I look out the window, and I still see that same darkness that I saw from my bedroom window. As I walk into the building, there is no longer smoke clouds forming from the cold, but instead, there is a slight breeze that leads me through the doors.
I walk out of the school doors, and somehow, I am overwhelmed with what feels like joy itself. The sun is beaming, and the sky is blue. For the first time in a long time, I feel warm, physically warm. I no longer need to sprint to my car to avoid the bitterness of winter, but now I can walk in the peacefulness of spring. Once I get home, I go into the living room to see a beam of light cast across my carpet. Even though it is not technically spring yet, I see this and I know that spring was finally here. The day passes by and I realize it is 8:00 pm, yet the sky is still lit. Some time passes by, and the sunset has begun. It paints the sky with beautiful colors, and there are no clouds to block the sight. Spring is returning and so is my happiness.
