Snow to me is one thing in life that warms my heart. It brings a sense of nostalgia of when I was a child and just how much I loved watching the snow fall. Watching the snow build and collect on the streets, yards, and houses. The blankets of snow were just so beautiful and I could barely stand it. I was always bothered when people would walk through their yards instead of taking the little walkway. I felt that it would disrupt the beauty with a line of footprints going through the snow. Eventually I would come to enjoy them when I would try to match my feet with the ones that were already left there. My stride and feet were sometimes a bit too small, so I would occasionally stumble. But I wouldn't fret too much over it.
Before I was born, there was a blizzard, something I have never seen before. I would be rather excited to see that amount of snow. I wouldn't really know what to do if I saw that. I know the city would be in pretty much a stand still until the roads were cleared enough for people to actually drive through and be productive. This year, my dad surprised my older brother by building him a Batmobile out of snow. My dad said it took him about 3 hours to complete, but I can only imagine how excited my brother was when he saw the completed work. We have pictures from that day, and I wish I could have seen it all for myself.
Thinking about the snowy days growing up, I always knew grown ups would hate it with a burning passion. Now that I am an adult and I am driving, I know what they disliked about it. But I still love the snow as much as I did as a child. Even though I now have to go out to my car and start it so that it can warm up, I do not mind it. I enjoy brushing off the snow with my big ice scrapper and cleaning off as little snow as possible on the top and back. I want my car to have as much snow on it as possible before it either flies off from the wind or melts away. I know that many adults do not like the snow because it does make traveling difficult. There are a lot of accidents on the road. I have been in one myself due to black ice. But even though there are all of these different things that cause a downside due to snow, I am always going to enjoy it just a little bit more than others.
This is just a little personal article on my views of snow. I might add something or even edit this one a little. I just want others to know the beauty that I feel when I see snow. I always hope for a big snow fall every winter. With our changing climate over the past 10 years, it has become less and less common. I hope we are able to bring about a new generation that will someday know what it is like to be cold and to have snow all winter long.
