Even though it's — tangibly speaking — a pretty arbitrary shift from one day to the next, the fact that we have entered the month of June somehow made me feel more positive about life, when I got up this morning.
That feeling made me think about the ways in which we attribute positive connotations to things based on our memories from similar situations.
June was almost always a good month pretty much throughout my childhood and subsequently a substantial part of my adulthood.
June meant that school was going to be out, and chances were that I would get to go stay with my auntie for several weeks — if not a month or more — and it was a whole different and more loving lifestyle than I was used to at home. It also meant that I got to pretty much live in nature... helping out with the garden or helping out by cutting firewood and cleaning up around the forested area in the property.
It was also positive in the sense that my auntie treated me like an actual human being, rather than a fancy piece of furniture to be moved around, at will.
In retrospect, I was definitely very blessed to spend a fair amount of my childhood and youth on a remote country property with 24 acres of land around it. Part of the joy was that life slowed down while I was there, because my auntie basically hated being rushed and she was very much an introvert just like I am.
After University, during the years I had my import export business and store, June was always one of the busiest months (other than December) and so I felt good about the fact that business was good. There was something hopeful about it, a sense that what I was doing was actually worthwhile.
Of course, I have retained my youthful love of nature and gardening and so I still look forward to June and the summer because it is the time of the year when I get to be outside and we grow things.
And it's strawberry season!
Occasionally, I have more specific little snippets dance through my mind... like that very special feeling of riding my bike home after midnight when "night" on a clear day means nothing more than "dusk," because the sun is only a few degrees below the horizon. Sometimes there would be ghostly ground fogs in the hollows, giving the dusky landscape an otherworldly feeling.
Another thing that has made me think positively about June is the fact that it may be summer, but it's not super hot, yet. I just haver never done well with heat...
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