The Feeling of Spring

I've never much cared for the changing of seasons. I didn't cringe with snow and rejoice for spring. I just took each season as it was, for the beauty each brings... but today spring hit me hard. It was perfect, really. I walked around campus without a coat or even a jacket and it felt SO good. I even parked in the lot furthest away from my building just so I would have to walk that much further in the world around me. Plus I was emerging from a brutal two hour art history lecture so that made the outside world even better.

Driving home I turned the air conditioner on full blast and didn't once feel cold. So I'm driving and all of the sudden I get this scent of freshly cut grass in my nose. Freshly cut grass that I have always said smells just like watermelon. As quickly as it came it was gone, but it didn't take my smile with it. I also saw lots of daffodils blooming in people's yards and it reminded me of childhood when my sister and I would pick them from our neighbor's yard; with her permission of course.



It's days like these with perfect weather that make me feel so alive and free and happy. I love the feeling of my hair blowing back in the air conditioner, wearing sunglasses, and turning up my radio full blast and singing, especially to Lady Gaga. Despite never caring what season it is, I'm glad it's finally spring now!!! Besides, everyone seems to be in a better mood now that it's not so cold!