What winter means to me..

I really didn't know that i would come back so soon to sit and write another post the very next day i created a blog. Fine coming to winter i have heard some people hate winter, some people have never seen winter and for some people they really don't understand what winter is (People in Chennai :-P ). But there are some people who love winter. Yeah i am one such winter lover. Though i was born in India i have experienced sub zero temperatures in my home town. But thats not the reason i liked winters.
Well to list it in order winter gives me more compact, more cozy and a more deeper sleep than any other seasons. I feel winter some how holds you together. We used to be a family of five including my father, mother, brother and sister. When we were kids, during winter we always used to stay together while sleeping to keep ourselves warm. But still it helped us stay together and the third and the last reason is when i was young the most amazing stories i read always had things talking about snow flurries, snow man, rain deers and what not. I always did fantasize about all these things the long woolen coats the fluffy hoods the leather gloves. I simply did love winter. Now there is a small thing that would add to it, i was born on a winter season. Now isn't that enough for a person to love winter and i wouldn't care if there has to be other reasons to love winter.



Now similarly i have enough reasons to love Boston, MA too. Boston - this name became familiar in my Xth standard. The famous Boston Tea Party in the most boring subject of all times - History.
But i liked this name, i don't have any specific reasons why i did like this name but some times u like things for no reason. And Boston was the first place that i experienced winter. I landed in Boston on December 28 2005. Though it was winter i never saw any snow fall i could see patches of snow here and there - I was disappointed. We had a new years eve celebrations in our office premises. It had been like 3 days and i haven't even seen a flurry of snow, but it sure was cold outside. The party started around 6 in the evening i have never been to a so boring dumb party. You wouldn't imagine party's used to be fun alcohol and dance and what not this was nothing of that flavor. It was about projects and project discussions for the following year. I thought i was doomed. I came out for a smoke i was so pissed of it was around 11:55 in the night my friend accompanied me.



I was telling him its been like 3 days no snow and this party sucks big time. It could have never been better than that when i felt something falling on my hair and i turned up to see small flurries of snow fall on my face.
This is an experience its a feeling that i cannot pass on in words. It was wonderful. My first snow fall..
As you can see how excited and happy i was seeing snow. Though the camera didn't work wonders i still like this picture coz this is the first snowfall i experienced in life. Winter also brings me fond memories in my childhood. My father used to tell us the temperature at night was -2 degree Celsius or even sometimes -3 degree Celsius that the maximum that our town has gone below zero. We used to mix rose milk essence with milk and add sugar to it and keep it in a closed glass container and place the container on top of the fire wood shed that we had. Hoping the next day it would turn into ice cream. Applying all the sciences that we knew that time - water freezes below zero degrees. But The next day we would end up finding only a thin sleet of ice that covers the liquid rose milk. But still we used to love it. Point to be noted we never had a refrigerator at home at that point of time.

Winter though has given me very fond memories of my lifetimes i realized the true meaning of winter when i came to US. Though my childhood memories tell me winter means togetherness as i grew it only taught me winter is more lonely and its more cold in feelings. But i wouldn't expect that one day i would end up feeling that what winter meant in a different angle all together and that i would end up liking that too.
It slowly made me more of a colder person. It taught me patience it taught me persistence in thought but still in the deepest of my heart it still taught me togetherness in a more mature way. I was surprised to realize this. Yeah it teaches you the togetherness of mind the togetherness of thoughts and the togetherness of your soul, yet its so cold and lonely.
Winter has always changed me as a better person. As each winter passed by, my roots became more stronger and i became more sure footed. Though to the outside world what ever i seemed like may be very strange and stupid but inside i was transforming into a more better person, than what it seemed outside. Just like this winter tree my appearance was so lifeless but deep inside i was still clinging onto my life with more patience, perseverance and courage to hold on to my life and above all it taught me hope. Ill talk some other day about hope, but winter did teach me hope. Now the reason why i started of winter today, it snowed here for more than 12 hours and theres almost like 7 inches of snow outside my window. And as i sit here watching the snow fall i write this small meaning of winter. I am not sure if this would mean really something to you but it sure did mean to me. coz i always did love winter :-)