Seasons Change

Seasons Change

How will you describe the season, Autumn – leaves gradually change their vibrant green color to various ones such as red, yellow, and orange and gradually they fall off from their homes and into the ground they go, slowly decomposing and eventually forgotten – is it? Indeed, it makes a beautiful romantic scene from the popular romance films, top it up with the start of the cool season that stimulates more cuddle moments for those fortunate couples who get pass this stage of withering. However, can they pass through winter?

If I would define the four seasons, they are like the Elements of a story plot (of a tragic love story), namely rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Let’s say spring is the rising action wherein two people meet for the first time, slowly getting to know each other through usual interactions like messaging, calling, and casual meet-ups. These interactions are spark plugs that ignite something from within. In the morning when we wake up, the first thing in our minds, “I should message him good morning” or “Did he message me already?”. As seconds, minutes, and hours go by in a day, we always tend to check our phones wondering if the person of our interest messages us or replies us back. At night time, when we are free from whatever tragic thing we have to do just to get by, we can spare some time to call that one. It might start to a simple ‘how are you and good night?’ After a while the conversation will go on and on as if we have infinite topics to talk about and time is kind to stop for us; but actually, we have loads of work to do the next day. What do we get afterwards? Those dreadful soggy bags hanging under our eyes from left and right, the volcanic bumps that appear overnight, not to mention we’re sleep deprived! These are what we get! But most of all, we gain something else that we cannot explain clearly at the moment and one thing’s for sure, we want some more despite all the drawbacks we experience and we will continue to do so.

These sleepless nights turn into regular meetings at a park where we just sit on one of the benches there with that person just talking about the weather, school or work-related topics, hobbies, even likes and dislikes and mostly do nothing just feeling each other’s company satisfies us. If we got some cash, then we can have meet-ups at restaurants or café and eventually just about anywhere we can go to. Given enough exposure and understanding to this brooding emotion, we start to take action that will lead to a formal confession.

Here we go, official dating begins and something springs deeper than infatuation or simple attraction through the enormous time of spending together. Love blossoms like the flowers in springtime – fresh, vibrant, and fragrant – everybody can tell how lovely they are.

Now, it’s summer, the climax of someone’s love story where everything is hot and wild. It’s the time for exploration on both sides. We tend to go to have fun going to different excursions - enjoy new sceneries, foods, fashion, and new founded emotions through all of these events - that in time will lead to more intimate understanding of both preferences, principles and ideals. We might argue from time to time about our other half’s vulnerability and stubbornness, but the heat of that hostility easily diminishes by the sweetness of either one side or both sides. Just the thought of waking up in the morning next to our loved ones, observing his or her face as we gently caress it, memorizing every corner that it may everlastingly etch in our minds is more than enough to leave a smile on our faces. The amount of new found physical and emotional attraction overpower any kind of obstacles that might ruin the foundation of relationships.

But what if this goes on and on? Will this sweetness and excitement keep up?

Autumn enters the scene or what I called ‘The falling action’. Our curiosity to explore more about partners slowly extinguishes as time passes by. We figure that things are not as smooth sailing as it can be; that the ones perfect individual we think are sometimes utterly the opposite of it. Those once silly jokes become irritating noises. Those childish tantrums become too intolerable and all we ever want is to walk away at times. Those not long-ago movie date nights and stroll in the park become dull as the gray sky. Those sleepless nights from thinking when can we meet our person as soon as possible become rooted from our restlessness of not being able to stand each other’s company. The spark slowly fades and the excitement rarely occurs. Everything starts to become monotonous as if loving someone becomes just a part of our lifeless daily routines. Dissimilarity in opinions keep on pestering the relationship. We often argue about every simple thing and simple apology or serenading don’t seem to have the same effect anymore to resolve the argument.

Don’t get me wrong, not everyone often argues and can’t resolve a minor, especially major issues in this stage. Many relationships end up conquering this monotony and turn it into stability and sense of security.

But for the part that I mentioned earlier, those who cannot resolve issues in their relationship, in the stroke of a moment, end up badly into the last season. All of the negative emotions pile up into a violent snow storm that is ready to engulf everything in its grasp. Once, we were cuddled by the warmth of the so-called feeling in love that is now entirely stiff coldness of indifference. It formed into a disease that starts from the roots and spreads throughout every part of it. Without a doubt, love is lost. Similar in the business society, we can lose everything we work so hard for in the blink of an eye. Every effort, time, resources, and emotions we put into it just to make it work, can and will rot in just one wrong move. Some may survive this season and cycle back to spring. But for some, let’s call it a heartbreak.

Unfortunately, the season autumn briefly ended; winter came upon my relationship and will never return to spring again. He made his decision, and so did I.

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