Seasons in our lives.

Sometimes we ask our friends which season they prefer. The answers grouped up into the four season headings, would produce a fairly equal strength. Just as many of our friends like either summer, or winter, or autumn or spring, though admittedly, spring seems more popular.

But that is connected with the seasons in the literal meaning of the term, or geographical reasons, if you like. The names of the seasons feature in many other formats, some examples of which would be: come into season, in season, off or out of season, season food for flavour, man for all seasons, open season and the silly season, to quote only a few examples. There is also a legion of idioms using one particular season as a focal point, some of which are: spring to life, dead of winter, autumn years and one swallow does not make a summer. You can dilute the lists to taste.

Seasons can therefore be applied to the various phases in our lives, which are disconnected with the calendar. One can have one’s spring season in January or in February, meaning that blossoming in his career occurs at that time of the year.

For these reasons it is customary to associate feelings, the successful outcome of wishful projects, and day-dreaming, with what in our view can be associated with seasons as we see them. Therefore the connotations given to seasonal implications have different meaning to different people, except, perhaps to spring which enjoys the best of aspirations.

John’s spring started on the day he started his entrepreneurial objectives. Jane’s was on the first day she started counselling people at her clinic, and so on. Spring is associated with successful beginnings. The ripening will have to wait for another season.

We can go on citing examples following the same train of thought. But the best one would surely be when a person is described as a man (or woman, for that matter) for all seasons.

Refer to my blogs of March 2009 “Spring,” and July 2009 “Summer madness,” and June 2010 “...tik...tok...” to complement this piece. You have only to go to “My blogs – new entries frequently added,” in the menu of topics in the portal of my website http://www.culturedomain.com. Read the three blogs quoted and come back here.


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