Forgotten

I sighed as I set my car in park and opened the doors. I sat on the edge of my car seat for a while pondering what my life had become. But I had no other choice. Time for another day of work. I slid out of my car seat and set off on my walk to the office. I never paid any attention to the seasons changing around me. They came and went, each one drifting by me as if it were motionless. I physically cringed as I thought about the office cubby in which I worked. My job had become so frustratingly boring ever since my new boss got hired. She slowly sucked the fun out of computer programming. It used to be my favorite hobby until it turned into something I found to be the least enjoyable and interesting. Nothing in the ongoing world seemed to excite me anymore. The snow crunched beneath my shoes as I thought about the outgoing eager to please girl I had once been. I realized that I would easily give up anything for my life to go back to the way it used to be.

Suddenly, a single ice crystal drifted out of the chilly atmosphere right onto my parched nose. That single action by nature made the corners of my mouth turn up in an expression of true happiness and affection. After all these careless months, I had long forgotten the feeling of snow descending from the cloudy sky and onto my skin. I had never once bothered to pay attention to how intricate each season was and the pure joy that it can bring to someone. I hadn't even realized that Autumn had now given way to Winter. My mind was so obsessed with my well-being pertaining to work that the changing seasons never entered my mind. Tears fell from my hazelnut eyes as I remembered the untroubled memories of playing in the snowfall as a child. Where had the happy times of my life gone?