winny panicker
"And on the roads of the seasons rode,
With Summer the feeling of
annoyance, fury and anger...
along came the joy of springing happiness
and the sober tone of tears wetting
on the roads of the paths of rain,
a feeling of love and romance scaled
followed by the autumn of falling hopes
and winter of emotions numb..."
Emotion is one
of the guiding factors that determine the actions that a person does.
What is emotion? It is in a way the way in which we perceive something.
Emotions are feelings that engulf us in different ways. They change and
vary within us like seasons in a year. In a way seasons and emotions are
closely related. There are certain factors that cause an emotion to act
in particular ways. If we try to gather together the various emotions
that practically co-exists with us; to name a few, Anger, Love,
Sympathy, Fear, Indifference, isolation, depression, joy, enlightenment
etc, we can at some point of time relate it to varying seasons. The
emotions can of course override us in situations of extremities, but at a
basic level, the common emotions that are dominant in us given
particular situations may act the same for many people.
Now,
close your eyes and take a walk with me. Visualise a stroll along the
road that is filled with yellow flowers on both the sides. And allow all
the five seasons; Summer, Spring, Monsoon, Winter and Autumn walk along
with you…
Summer is
usually characterised as Sunny, Bright and Hot. Summer reflects the
emotions anger, annoyance, irritation and the like. Taking a walk along a
summer road would seem really irritating as the heat of the sun can
practically pierce into your skin. However happy one may try to keep
oneself, the heat that surges into the body will at a point keep the
mind disturbed. With the summers the longing for the Spring blooms in
our minds.
Now, a
freshening thought about the freshening season ahead would give an
internal rush of happiness and joy. Spring can be made to ensemble with
the bright colors like yellow, green and colors of joy. Often during
spring you may feel to just stroll around your favorite spaces. The same
road that you walked during summer would seem brighter and filled with
joy. Sometimes it is possible for a really unhappy person to suddenly
feel happy. That is the power of season and what nature can offer us
with.
The Monsoons
have a mixed emotional behavior. It can make a person entirely joyous as
though floating in the air and on the other hand, it can make him feel
really depressed and sober. Sometimes, the reasons as to sudden sadness
or happiness or any kind of emotional shift cannot be traced. The
seasons and the atmosphere that you are in will have an influence on it.
The pelting down of raindrops down my windowpane was one factor that I
disliked once. It sometimes endured in me a pain that I wanted to get
rid of. But, at times rain has made me happy and a surge of happiness
engulfed me. The feeling of coolness runs parallel with the emotion of
love and romance. An overdose of coolness would put us in winter. Winter
relates to a feeling of numbness and immobility. The laziness in us
awakens in the winter.
The next
emotion that haunts us is grief and passing away of joy. The sight of
falling leaves will leave us with a thought of passing memories. The
falling leaves can be thought of as a reminder to a new and more
pleasant event that may be coming up. The feeling of loss and failure
will be over ridden with the feeling of hope in that case.
