Extremely Joyful Spring Title

Subtitle: Tulips are like opium, only better.

I consider myself to be a happy person. I think that, on a whole, my capacity for joy is unusually high. I think that I am happy most of the time. And it has always seemed to me that I feel my joy rather intensely.
Also, I have never been one to think that one's mood needs to correspond with the weather. Just as easy to be happy in the winter as in the summer, I've always thought. I've always enjoyed spring very much (same as fall, and most of summer and winter) but I've never understood the very high levels of excitment a lot of people seem to associate with spring.

That said, I cannot remember a spring ever having such an overwhelmingly powerful influence on me as it has these last several days. I just cannot believe how HAPPY this weather is making me! The other morning I literally thought, "I would have supposed I'd have to be in love to reach this intense of a level of happiness!" I just feel like there is joy and rapture gushing out of me. Soemtimes I think my neuro circuits are in danger of being overloaded with happiness and my brain just might explode. Seriously. That's how happy the spring is making me.

I've pondered about why it is that I'm being so very strongly influenced by the weather for the first time ever. This is my theory: I think I am being more exposed to the spring then ever before. I wake up around 8:30. I can see a wide expanse of bright sunny sky from my bed. I have wonderful wonderful amounts of sunlight all around my apartment as I'm getting ready. I walk by a park on the way to and from the subway. (coming home is the best because the park is full and everyone is having fun and Mr. Frosty is selling ice cream. sigh!!). I go to work and sit in front of this all day:


The picture (which I took myself, thank you very much) does not do it justice. It is so lovely looking out over Trinity Church and it's surround yard with flowers. And I can see parts of the Hudson AND the Harbor. And the buildings are beautiful. And it is so wonderfully sunshiny. I'm getting gushy just thinking about it. Also, I think I'm just basically surrounded by more beautiful scenary then I have in a long time. For example, here in the fiancial district where I work a lot of the buildings have flower beds and/or huge planters of loveliness. You don't see that in the printing district (where I worked before).

So basically, the only time I am not keenly aware of my beautiful sunshiny glorious weather is while I'm on the subway.

And while I'm on the subject, have there always been so many tulips in the spring? I've never noticed them before. I just don't see how a person can look at a tulip and not go into a tizzy of pure joy.

I am a lucky girl! I love my life!