This time of year, a lot of things happen to me, both body and soul. The negatives are that I fucking HATE butterflies (they creep me out) and ticks, my nose and eyes are itchy and runny because of allergies and I can’t go outside without sun screen or an umbrella because I refuse to get a tan. But the positives are that it is finally warm! I don’t have to wrap every inch of skin in wool and still freeze my ass off anymore. No, I get to wear that cute dress with those lovely shoes and eat ice cream while listening to the birds sing.
Spring does something to us. It’s like it brings out the people we really are. As if we have been mindless drones, asleep during winter and the people who have lived in the cold are useless copies that are now being stored away so that the real people can come out.
Everything lives again. Water flows, soft winds blow, flowers blossom. And all around me, people are enjoying themselves.
This Saturday it is the Swedish national holiday called Valborg and I am celebrating it on a blanket in the grass, drinking champagne and laughing with my friends. That is what it’s all about.
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