Ode to the Negativity of Spring

Painful. Spring is painful. 

Spring is three long months of allergies and sinus pressure with bipolar weather patterns and grueling finals. It is the final obstacle in the way of summer vacation, and the time of making difficult decisions about the all too quickly approaching future. 

The start of the season also starts the cycle of medication to prevent the constant headaches, stuffy noses, and sore throats that plague most miserable victims of poor immune systems. Rain brings sinus infections, and sun brings blooms that are only out to cause harm, an endless cycle of frustration.

With spring comes responsibility. All of the hours spent studying throughout a depressing autumn and a bitter winter begin to mean something as spring arrives with the expectation to combine all the useful knowledge gained and put it to use. Exams and projects pile up at an alarming rate until there isn't time to breathe or possibly enjoy the spread of colors after the drabness of the start of the year.

If it's not school work then it is the demands of the holiday season, with Lent and Easter and the demands of grandparents who feel that it is of the utmost importance to make a good impression. While the dinners and gatherings of church members are entertaining every once and awhile, growing up with restrictions on what to eat on specific days is annoying for any adolescent.

Spring brings color and new life, but it also causes stress, pain, and irritation. Though it marks the end of subzero temperatures and ice storms, it also brings in a fresh round of stress that lasts until the schools finally relent at the start of summer. March, April, and May, while supposedly beautiful, all merely offer some sort of pain that only makes the last months of school harder. Until the twenty first of June, when it is officially the warmest of the seasons and the flowers have all bloomed to their full potential, will all the trials of spring relent and offer peace after months of difficulty.