Still crying after the summer.
My passion for summer comes from my childhood spent in the country, in freedom! Now, when I'm on the opposite side of the time scale, the opposite side of youth, even though it seems cliché, I realize that I was happiest in this life when I didn't know I was happy.
In my childhood...
I was free and I didn't know it, I was happy and I didn't know it. Every summer I was with friends in the fields, by the river, and in the woods. Then summer entered me forever and made me forgive its too-hot excesses now!
Because I remembered my childhood and summer, I now remember the opposite of summer, "the snows of yesteryear".
When I was a kid, this was in the middle of the last century, the summer-winter "relationship" was different than it is now. Summer was less hot and scorching and winter, yes, winter, was real!
I have to put on the map where this was happening, of course, in different places on this earth of ours it must have been different, but I think people like me, with enough years behind us, have noticed a change.
My childhood was in north-eastern Europe, in northern Romania. There I lived the first ten years of my life, in my grandparents' small house and the big "backyard" that was formed by hills, woods, fields, and waters.
Like in a dream!
If summer now still resembles the summer of childhood, winter has changed radically. When I was a kid I knew that winter starts in December and doesn't leave until the end of March. During that time it was the absolute mistress. The snow was the size of the house and it was hard to live in such conditions but I didn't see that. All I could see was the children playing, and the sleigh!
Then, as I grew older, the winter got smaller.
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?
Where are the snows of yesteryear?
"I can still remember the feeling of my first love, as fresh in my mind as if I were still a young man of 19. Ah, but where are the snows of yesteryear?"
Used to express nostalgia, sadness, or regret for the time in one's past that one cannot revisit or reclaim. A translation of the French phrase Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?, quoted from the 1461 poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" ("Ballad of the Ladies of Long Ago") by François Villon.
At first, I didn't notice this change, but it has become obvious in the last few years. Winter now, here where I live, lasts two or three weeks. With little or no snow, with autumn-spring temperatures. Somehow a favorable new situation. Less heating costs, less spending on thick clothes... But the nostalgia remains for the great winters of the past, the winters of childhood!
In this context, I had a big surprise one winter morning in 2017. My town, now further south, was buried in snow. An overnight snowfall turned everything white.
It was a momentary "rage".
The snow didn't last more than a week, but it was beautiful! It was like old times. We had, for a little while, the "snows of yesteryear" back!
The fairytale-like beauty we had in the park next to the house. One of the great blessings of my life is the park next door! Now my house is bigger than my grandparent's house but the yard is very small. I can't fit in it anymore. "the hills, woods, fields, and waters".
We haven't had this much snow since. Last winter it only snowed at the beginning of spring and the snow only lived for a week. I believe in global warming and climate change.
I believe it because I see and feel it!
I have a friend, I guess I can call him a friend even though we disagree on many things. A fellow Hive member and colleague, who writes exceptionally well but believes in conspiracy theories. Who believes that this whole world, as it has evolved for thousands of years, the ugly side of the world, will be changed by crypto, of course, much faster? That makes him against many things that seem to be induced into our lives by the world oligarchy. He doesn't believe in global warming, which he says is a manipulation...
In one of his last posts, if I remember correctly, he says he observes climate change but doesn't believe in global warming! A point of view, of course. Interesting, if he were to be right!
[Week 122] Weekend-Engagement concept!The winter of 2017 still haunts my memories, aided of course by photos found in a corner of my archive. I searched for winter photos in a desire to write to a theme offered by @galenkp, help for those without imagination or inspiration. If you fall into these categories, you still have time to write too, here are all the details:
If I will going to look back childhood is the happiest stage of my life. Nothing to be worried about as long as I know that my Mother and Father are on my side. There was freedom of time, I can even have decent sleep without thinking those obligations.
Thus, it was only the glimpse of memories by now. Everything has change.
It was hot afternoon here in my place as of the writing and by looking at the snow made me think. When I can experience that? It was so beautiful into the sight.
I think most people think of childhood as a lost paradise. I'm glad my post brought some refreshment.
I like it how you describe the young age using the snow as the point of view, memories never fade, no matter how hard we may want them to, the worst of it is that, sometimes, this memories can make us sad, depending on what we encountered but it was already in the past and there is nothing one can do about it.
Remembering about your life when you were with your grandparents may make you want to reshuffle all the good times, those are good memories I know.
Nice reading from you @bluemoon
Thanks for the touching comment! Memories can be a good remedy for the not-so-good present.
The winter of 2017! I remember it well! I had two feet of snow in one storm!!! Now I have none, not for a few years.
There are so many happy memories attached to your writing. You have some of the best memories and I think winter was much different I have to wonder if it is through the eyes of a child. Thinking back, no, it is not. The snow was deep, even on my father.
The weather did evolve with age, but, I never looked at it as a deterrent, it just was. In the summer, we boated and fished, and swam in the ocean and it was fun, always. Even as an adult. In the middle years, if it snowed, we skied or went sledding, after we shoveled the driveway and sidewalks. I think I always accepted the weather as part of life.
Do I think there is global warming? It sure is showing great signs of it.
I think global warming cannot be contested. I hope it's not as bad as it seems. I have seen opinions that say it is pointless for civilized countries, i.e. where the inhabitants have the capacity to understand what is going on, to make these great efforts in stopping the causes that lead to the greenhouse effect while most of mankind does not respect anything.
I think, @dswigle, that we need to do everything we can to stop global warming.
I agree with you, Dan! I want to save our planet for our kids and grandchildren... and all the people of the world.
It is indeed a fairy-tale like beauty experiencing snow on your side dear friend @bluemoon. Perhaps I so love snow but I have not felt it. When will I experience that? I guess only when I will go abroad on a winter season. Have a nice time my friend and take care.
Thank you! Maybe the snow will come to you, who knows?
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Oh my god, I remember when I was a kid I couldn't wait for winter to come and especially the snow, for the streets(ulitele satului) to fill with snow.
Unfortunately those times are just memories.
For me, it's the same!
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