Winter Woes

I found this quote off Pinterest (typical), and who knows if it was said by Albert Camus because Pinterest tends to reference to wrong people, but I digress. 

This is something that I'm really working towards.  I've found that the months January thru April are really lame months for me.  I always have the post-Christmas blues, and there's no fun holiday for me to look forward to, and the cold snow is polluted and needs to go away.  In past years I stayed preoccupied by practicing for ballet and other various dance performances, but I don't have that this year.

My first semester of college was an easy transition.  I think it was because it was all so surreal, and I felt  like I was in a dream sometimes; everything was fresh, new, and exciting.

A lot of people deal with moving away differently.  Some of my roommates cried for the first month of college, and continued to struggle through their first semester, until they got over it and moved on.  My transition was smooth, but now I think it's catching up to me during these cold, cold months in Logan. 

It's easy for me to wish away these dead months, but I have realized how precious my time is.  Time flies, and before I know it I will be leaving my family and friends to go out of the state or country serving a mission.  Sometimes I just don't know what to do with myself.  There are so many things I want to do, but it's figuring out how to do these things that's the hard part. 

So I'm trying to channel the wonderful feelings of summer and light, during this grey, polluted, dead time of year. 

This picture is from a weekend I had in Bear Lake with my roommate, and the rest of my ward.