As the springtime emerges, the snowy landscape melts away. Blocks of ice become smaller, the grass slowly becomes greener. I have been watching this fairly large mound of snow and ice that came along during one of the winter storms. It has shrunk but I was marveled not by the change in size but its resiliency.

Even on sunlit days this block stayed strong. What inspired me was how similar this ice was to how we as humans exist. It is through our resiliency that we survive. Eventually we will fade away and die, but it is what we do in the meantime that matters. That is what eventually defines us.

We are all just blocks of ice and snow simply melting away as the season changes. Do we put up a fight ? Or let natures take its course?

Resiliency takes patience, hard word and discipline. I am quite sure that each snow particle struggles to keep its molecular bounds and stay as a mound. This analogy applies to our daily struggles as well, as we persevere to become impervious to our external perhaps hostile environments be they weather, or other people.

I will always remember this block on my lawn for its inspiring motivation to be self sufficient and strong, perhaps I can be some of these traits too, or perhaps I am just seeing my own reflections in this form of water.

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I love you