Continuous Cycle

Fall is my favorite season of the entire year and I am excited to say that it is finally here! I love to cozy up in large, chunky sweaters with a hot cup of tea in my hands and watch football on Sunday’s. Fall is packed full of great activities like apple picking, pumpkin picking, and scary corn mazes, all of which I enjoy tremendously. Not only do I enjoy the activities found in the season of fall, but I also love the changes that happen in nature. I love the change in movements of animals as the air gets colder, and I love the crisp air that you breathe when you walk outside on a cold day. But my favorite change that fall brings with it is the varying colors on the trees. I like looking up into a tree and seeing a single red leaf surrounded by green and knowing that soon, all the green leaves will make the transformation and follow in the footsteps of the first red leaf.

                Then, all of the trees slowly start to shift their colors from a lively green to more vibrant colors of red, orange, yellow, and less vibrant brown. When the colors start changing in fall, I am reminded that another year is almost to an end. It forces me to reflect on everything I have accomplished so far and everything else that I want to accomplish before the year is finished. I have survived another semester at school while also working thirty hours a week. I flew to North Carolina to visit friends that I have been missing. I went skydiving for the first time in my life. I witnessed one of my best friends’ say her vows in front of a hundred people while standing by her side. Another birthday has come and gone and now I am in another semester at school. The rest of my year will consist of homework, work in general, and the upcoming holidays.

                                                               A Tree Outside of My House in Fall

              Finally, I look at a tree and notice one small brown leaf is clinging to its branch by only a small thread. The wind picks up and the leaf loses its grip and begins to float to the ground to join the other fallen leaves. This indicates an ending of one season and a beginning of another and I know that in a year, I will experience the same feeling of awe at the conclusion of another year. The leaves will come back to life in spring and I will get the hopeful feeling of rebirth and growth. Then the cycle continues.