Life is often desribed as a journey.  You start at a specific destination and go to and through places in your life until you end up at an entirely new destination.  I, myself, have often compared life to the changing of the seasons.  Let's begin.

Spring is the time of year when all things are new. In life, this would be where we begin. We start out fresha and new straight from the wound. We have no knowledge of what the world has in store for us, but we are bright and brilliant from the first moment that we breath in the freshness of a life just beginning. We are ready to blossom and grow.

Spring is the first few few years of our life.  We start out small and learn as we grow. We are infants and then toddlers, and then adolesants.  Then we moved into life's summer.

As we grow older, the newness of life begins to wear off, but it is replaced with a warm feeling. We are still young, but now we are bursting with energy. We find ourselves seeking freedom to express ourselves in new ways, and we have this "I can do anything" train of thought.

This is our finding ourselves season. We are usually in our teens and early adulthood. This is where we determine who we will become later in life and persue our hopes and dreams. Some of us fall into our summers a little late in life and find that we don't have as much of this season to enjoy.

This is my favorite of all of life's seasons because it is during this time that we can make most of life's most important changes.  This is where we mold our lives into whatever we want it be.

 In the autumn of our lives, most of us have accomplished our goals.  We have a home, a family, a career, and more.  This is the time when we work to provide a future for not only ourselves but also our offspring.  During this time, we think about 401k and retirement plans.  We make sure that our children will have a legacy to hold on to once we have reached the final stages of lives.  We are usually in our thirties, fourties, fifties, and sometimes even our sixties here.

 As the sun sets on fall, we prepare to face a sometimes brutal winter.  Our health may deteriorate, our minds may not be as clear as it was in our younger days, and our bodies slows down to a less enthusiastic pace.  During this stage, many of us are grandparents.  Some of us may be shipped off to nursing homes or retirement villages to live out our last days under the supposedly viligant watch of healthcare professionals.

This is the final stage.  In this day and age, some of us find that we looking back to our childhoods.  We are reliving younger days through stories told to younger generations.  Our friends and family may celebrate our birthdays saying that we are blessed to be able to face another day at our advanced ages. 

At the end of winter, we leave this world.  Those of us that believe in a higer power hang on to hopes that we will walk one again with friends and family members that have gone on before us.