🍂 Lessons the Fall Season 🍁
Teaches Us About Life
The fall season is a special time of the year.
No other season teaches us so many profound lessons about life.
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There are not so many of us who see the beauty in rainy days and gloomy skies. Most people link the coming of the fall season with negative things like low moods, runny nose and bad weather. But let’s take a few moments to think about and appreciate the wise life lessons Mother Nature teaches us this time of the year.
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1. Embrace the Change
First of all, the fall shows us that everything in life is fluid and changing and in order to move forward, we need to embrace the change. As the days get colder, the nights longer and the leaves on trees fewer, nature welcomes this new phase of its own existence.
When we see that despairing look of naked trees and dull skies, it may feel like everything is dying and this change is not for the better. Yet, without the fall, there would be no spring nor summer, and nature embraces this temporary death to reborn again in spring.
This is what we should do too. Not every change is positive, and a rare one goes smoothly. A period of transition almost always involves pain and crisis. But only when we learn to accept a new phase in our life, we realize that every change is for the better.
If it is a negative one, then it aims to shake our values and views, which will later be proven vital for our self-growth.
1. Embrace the Change
First of all, the fall shows us that everything in life is fluid and changing and in order to move forward, we need to embrace the change. As the days get colder, the nights longer and the leaves on trees fewer, nature welcomes this new phase of its own existence.
When we see that despairing look of naked trees and dull skies, it may feel like everything is dying and this change is not for the better. Yet, without the fall, there would be no spring nor summer, and nature embraces this temporary death to reborn again in spring.
This is what we should do too. Not every change is positive, and a rare one goes smoothly. A period of transition almost always involves pain and crisis. But only when we learn to accept a new phase in our life, we realize that every change is for the better.
If it is a negative one, then it aims to shake our values and views, which will later be proven vital for our self-growth.
2. Learn to Let Go
Similarly, the fall season demonstrates that it is crucial to let go the things that belong to the past. Trees lose their leaves, and it is both sad and beautiful, painful and necessary, morbid and inevitable. Every fall, nature goes through this melancholic transition and says goodbye to the cheerful summer version of itself. Yet, it lets it go without regrets and welcomes the change.
This is an important life lesson for us to remember. If we don’t let things go and dwell on the past, our personal growth stops and we eventually find ourselves stuck in life.
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go
Similarly, the fall season demonstrates that it is crucial to let go the things that belong to the past. Trees lose their leaves, and it is both sad and beautiful, painful and necessary, morbid and inevitable. Every fall, nature goes through this melancholic transition and says goodbye to the cheerful summer version of itself. Yet, it lets it go without regrets and welcomes the change.
This is an important life lesson for us to remember. If we don’t let things go and dwell on the past, our personal growth stops and we eventually find ourselves stuck in life.
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go
3. Be Part of Something Bigger
The transitional season is when we are most affected by the processes that take place in the natural environment around us. This time of the year has an influence on our physical and mental wellbeing. If you are dealing with mental illness or a chronic condition, you will know that the fall and spring are absolutely the worst.
But even if you are a healthy individual, you are inevitably affected by the transition points in the cycle of seasons. In spring, we feel a bit more alive, enthusiastic and optimistic, inspired by nature’s new beginning. In the fall, we experience a drop in moods and energy. We feel lazy and so tired for no reason.
What’s my point here? In the fall season, we feel a deeper connection with nature and become more aware of our participation in the eternal circle of existence. We realize, even if only unconsciously, that we are part of something bigger and should live in harmony with our natural environment. No matter how many trees we cut or how much land we turn into asphalt and concrete, Mother Nature will always be our only real home.
The transitional season is when we are most affected by the processes that take place in the natural environment around us. This time of the year has an influence on our physical and mental wellbeing. If you are dealing with mental illness or a chronic condition, you will know that the fall and spring are absolutely the worst.
But even if you are a healthy individual, you are inevitably affected by the transition points in the cycle of seasons. In spring, we feel a bit more alive, enthusiastic and optimistic, inspired by nature’s new beginning. In the fall, we experience a drop in moods and energy. We feel lazy and so tired for no reason.
What’s my point here? In the fall season, we feel a deeper connection with nature and become more aware of our participation in the eternal circle of existence. We realize, even if only unconsciously, that we are part of something bigger and should live in harmony with our natural environment. No matter how many trees we cut or how much land we turn into asphalt and concrete, Mother Nature will always be our only real home.
4. Sum up the Results
Back in old days when our ancestors lived in true harmony with nature, they celebrated significant points in the cycle of the year. Some of the biggest celebrations were devoted to the harvest. You may be surprised to learn that many of today’s holidays in the Western world have pagan roots. Some examples are Halloween and Thanksgiving Day, which are directly associated with pagan harvest celebrations.
The fall season is the time when we gather the harvest of our work during the year. And it doesn’t matter if we are talking about the veggies we grew in our garden, our career achievements or the results of our efforts to become a better person.
It is essential to sum up the results of our work and evaluate our accomplishments in all spheres of life from time to time to see how well we are doing. And this period of the year inspires us to do just that.
Back in old days when our ancestors lived in true harmony with nature, they celebrated significant points in the cycle of the year. Some of the biggest celebrations were devoted to the harvest. You may be surprised to learn that many of today’s holidays in the Western world have pagan roots. Some examples are Halloween and Thanksgiving Day, which are directly associated with pagan harvest celebrations.
The fall season is the time when we gather the harvest of our work during the year. And it doesn’t matter if we are talking about the veggies we grew in our garden, our career achievements or the results of our efforts to become a better person.
It is essential to sum up the results of our work and evaluate our accomplishments in all spheres of life from time to time to see how well we are doing. And this period of the year inspires us to do just that.
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5. Enjoy the Little Things in Life
Finally, the fall season gives us a chance to appreciate the little things in life. A cup of hot aromatic tea, a warm blanket, a good book – these simple things can make us truly happy after being outdoors in the autumn cold. With the chilly weather and depressing images the fall brings to us, you realize the great power the little joys of life have.
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Whether you like the fall season or not, you can’t deny that the lessons it teaches us about life are insightful and important. Hopefully, this article has inspired you to appreciate this time of the year a little more.
Finally, the fall season gives us a chance to appreciate the little things in life. A cup of hot aromatic tea, a warm blanket, a good book – these simple things can make us truly happy after being outdoors in the autumn cold. With the chilly weather and depressing images the fall brings to us, you realize the great power the little joys of life have.
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Whether you like the fall season or not, you can’t deny that the lessons it teaches us about life are insightful and important. Hopefully, this article has inspired you to appreciate this time of the year a little more.
Do you Love the Fall?
- Unknown - "Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."
- Emily Brontë - “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
- Chad Sugg - "Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."
- Albert Camus - "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"
- Friedrich Nietzsche - “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
- L.M. Montgomery - “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
- Dodinsky - “I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.”
- Charlotte Bates - “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”
- Unknown - “Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have.”
- Raquel Franco - “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.”
- Hal Borland - “Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.”
- John Burroughs - “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
- Jim Bishop - "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons."
- Stanley Horowitz - "Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - "...I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air."
- Unknown - “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye."
- Lee Maynard - "I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it."
- Mehmet Murat Ildan - "Dancing of the autumn laves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake."
- Shira Tamir - "Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day."
- Unknown - "The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go."
- Lauren DeStefano - "Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
- Diana Gabaldon, Outlander - "It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it."
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