No matter how long and cold winter is, spring will surely come. And in life even when the bad days seems too long, good days will surely come.

Out of all the seasons, winter is the coldest and darkest. It freezes everything, even our lives. Everything seems to be put into halt once winter starts. The cold is unbearable, yet inevitable. We have no choice but to deal with it and face it even with our freezing palms.

Out of all the seasons, the winter seems to be the one with less colors and glow. Unlike the colorful skies of the other seasons, winter gives you greyest skies. White is all you can see as the snow piles up. Like an old movie, everything is colorless.

Winter makes you feel gloomy. You get surrounded by lifeless trees and falling snow that you cannot help but feel gloom. The skies are blue and grey that you cannot help but feel like those colors too.

In our own lives, we come across our own winter seasons – a moment in our life when everything seems to stop. We go through a season of coldness and colorlessness. You only feel the freezing breeze with no warmth to hold on to. In life we may face a big hurdle, an obstacle that we cannot handle. It freezes us in the moment, with no hope of moving on.

You might have experienced those winter-like moments in your life. You might have felt so down and dark. Do you remember such moments?

I have been through bad days. Days so cold and dark that I am stuck to where I was. It was heartbreak after heartbreak. I have been so heartbroken that I could not sleep at night. I felt so down that all I could do was stare in space all day. Like a time freeze, I forgot to live my own life. I forgot to value myself. I forgot to take care of my emotions. I was just stuck to where I had been left.

It was hard. How do I move on from this? How would I even get back standing from falling this hard? Do I still have hope? Do I still have chance of loving again? Thoughts like that ran in my head. That winter in my life made me doubt my own worth.

But do you remember that seasons change?

Winter is not permanent. Spring always comes after winter. After a season of gloom is a season of bloom. Bright skies and fragrant flowers replace the sad snows and dying trees. Spring is a time of happiness and color. Even in life, times change. Our winter-like moments will end and become spring-like times. The change in seasons gives us the hope that our life will get better too.

Life gets better. You may feel that life is not worth living anymore. You may feel that life is too cold to bear. You may feel that you cannot continue and move on. But, like how the snow melts and uncovers the colorful flowers, our negative feelings fade and become blooming emotions to live again.

There is always hope of getting better. Our winters may be dark and gloomy. But, life is nothing without those days. Feel your emotions. Face those feelings that gives you a hard time. Let your feelings flow and deal with them.

Having the hope of future means making most out of the present.

Our snows become flowers when we learn from our bad days. Our days of darkness are our chance to be better in life. It is our chance to teach ourselves that we are humans who feel different emotions. It is our chance to teach ourselves to be feel and handle those emotions so we can get better in the future. It is a season for us to know how we treat ourselves and to see what to change.

Seasons change and so we do too. We become better in valuing ourselves when we go through our winters with hopes in our hearts that spring will come. Always remember that spring always comes after winter.