Why Understanding The Seasons Of Life Will Ease Your Suffering

“I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.” (Steve Southerland)

Seasons Of life

Just as the earth experiences spring, then summer, then fall, and finally winter — your own life cycle has its seasons.

You, like winter, emerge into existence out of darkness.

For the first stage of your life, from the time you are born to about your mid-twenties, you grow and mature.

“The world is your oyster,” as the old saying goes. Naturally, you consume all of the nourishment that the spring of your life has to offer — in the form of mentorship, education, and other formative experiences — in order to prepare yourself for the heat of the next season.

When you’ve grown up, it is time to lay down your seeds and take action.

This is the summertime of your life, the time to be building businesses, developing relationships, and being a warrior out in the world. Usually, this season begins in your mid-twenties and ends in your mid-fifties, give or take a decade.

Who you become, the people you nurture, and the wrok you do in the summertime of your life all contribute to the making of your harvest, or your legacy. In the fall of your life, you reap what you sow.

And just as easily as you emerged, you eventually fall back into the cold of winter.

Do you see? There is a cycle to everything.

Now, what I just shared was a macro view of the seasons of life. But there are many more seasons within the course of a lifetime.

There will be times in your life where you must enter a fiery summer, and I am sure you have already experienced this. So long as you are active in the world, you will experience these summers.

The summer is an exciting time of your life. Seeds of action are planted and then come to…