Looks Like Spring

It's finally spring.  Not just in name or time frame, but in actual observance.  Just yesterday I was talking with my grandparents after church, and they put forth verbalization that everything has started turning really green rapidly over the last few days.  I'd noticed the same thing just last week.  Our season has started somewhat slow this year compared to the last one.  The grass has been greening for a while, but until this last week trees were primarily bare.  There also hadn't been much rain to help facilitate the new spring growth.

Right now I hear the rain pouring on the roof outside.  There have been storm clouds for weeks, but they've been mostly a tease.  Perhaps ironically, the rain that is so important to plant life in the spring has until now been partially responsible for a slowing of growth.  The constant cloud cover slightly reduces solar energy available for photosynthesis.  That's largely irrelevant now, however, as the rain continues to fall.

Yesterday I was also hit with a random thought, triggered by all of this extrospection about new life and spring time.  I'm still getting older.  The spring semester is almost over for school age kids, and once it is I'll be completely removed from the experience.  My arbitrary metric for determining this is that in the time I've spent thinking about how much I've missed high school and how much better life was back then, I could have relived it.  That's right, I graduated in 2005.  Not a single person there (starting this year)  was there when I was a senior.  And after this semester, an entire generation will have passed through the classes and halls since my absence.

Spring works both ways, I suppose.  New life is both refreshing and depressing.  Either way I still need to find a way to get over this perceived loss of mine.  It has lingered longer than any other period of grief I've experienced, though notably less this season than in the past.  It's apparently a common thing.  They call it the "quarter-life crisis", and I guess I'm not even one of the worst cases of it. 

Oh well.  It's spring.  Time to focus on the neat stuff like interesting cloud formations.