Writing to winter: December 15th

Dear Winter,

I've just realised how negative the past few days seem to have been so I apologise. But sometimes writing honestly is necessary and a good way of expressing feelings without causing any damage. And the weather has been awful recently so if nothing else, let's call it pathetic fallacy! 

In fact, let's start with the weather. When you learn to see past the annoyance of being woken up by rain repeatedly every night for at least a week, theres actually something quite comforting to hear the rhythmical dancing of rain droplets on the rooftops. After a while even the huge gusts of wind are nothing more than a melody with the power of taking you away to anywhere. And once you realise that you've got enough coffee downstairs to keep you up until Christmas 2015, the fact that you've been in an extra hour or to becomes less important. 

Being up early brings me chance to think Winter, chance to do things that I rarely get chance to do. In fact, it's how I've managed to fit quite a few of your letters in. Sometimes it gets me thinking about the best things in the world but they're not always. Having time to gather your own thoughts, put them in order and work out how to deal with them is extremely important and Winter, I guess I've got you and your rain to thank for that! 

Keep smiling, 

Kathryn x

Writing to winter: December 14th

Dear Winter, 

One of the best things about Christmas for me is the films. Not new films though; ones I've seen before. I've been a little bit busy up until now but I was thinking of a film before and a quote from it. It was 'Of course it is in your head. But why on earth should that mean it is not real?' And I'm not telling you what film Winter, you can work that bit out for yourself. 

It did get me thinking though. People don't always understand what's going on for other people. They can't and they won't. People fight battles every day. Some of these battles are obvious; physical battles and weaknesses. But other battles can't be seen; buried away inside someone's head or covered up so extremely well. But that doesn't make them any less real. Something that people often do is judge others without considering whatever is going on for them. People have reasons for their actions and the people you're judging certainly wouldn't be judging you if you were in their shoes. 

So next time Winter, before you watch someone play the judgement card, can 

you try to point them in the right direction? 

Keep smiling,

Kathryn x