Blog #7: Creeping Into the Fall Season
IT’S SEPTEMBER BABY! I love September for many reasons: my mom’s birthday is in a few weeks, our 3-year anniversary is approaching… but something else is happening… something that is filling me with so much joy. THERE’S A FALL CHILL IN THE AIR. The air is crisp, the heatwave is dying down, the leaves are starting to turn… and in midwestern Indiana, fall is the most beautiful season of them all.
Something about me being a basic girly means I love fall and all that fall entails. Decorating, cozy aesthetics, Halloween movies, pumpkin-flavored baked goods and coffees.. how could you not love it? Don’t get me wrong, I love summertime. But… Indiana’s heat and humidity can be a LOT. Especially since I’m training a lot right now, which is always outside. And MAN is it hard to get up at 5 am each day to go on my runs :( sigh. Girlies, are you with me? Do you LOVE fall? I know a lot of guys who like fall as well, but I don’t know that they appreciate it quite like we do. Because, at least in my experience, Suketu “likes” fall. He’s a summertime kinda guy. No matter how hot it is he’d wayyyy rather it be 80+ degrees than have a slight crisp in the air. Hard to relay my excitement to him sometimes, when he doesn’t fully “get it”, because fall doesn’t fulfill him as much as it does me.
I’m serious when I say that fall fills me with so much contentment. Fall is when I experience peak happiness. Why is that? Why do us girlies love fall so much? I’ll tell you why. The EXPERIENCES. Pumpkin patches, apple cider, pumpkin spice lattes, apple crisps, hayrides, Target fall goods, fall scented candles, sweater weather, fashionable boots, colorful fall leaves, oversized sweatshirts… need I go on? Is it the coziness? The beginning of the wind-down of the year? The air we breathe becomes MAGICAL. Something is definitely in the air, and we’re all feelin’ it.
Alright, alright. I could go on forever about how much I love fall. Maybe for me, there’s a deeper reason.
Suketu and I fell in love in the fall. You know that song “We Fell In Love In October”? We really did. We met in August of 2015 and throughout the course of August, September, and October we only became more and more fond of each other. Huge shoutout to fall break 2015, because that is where our love truly flourished and grew into so much more than I thought a season could be. I met my soulmate. He made me love fall time. THAT is precisely the reason fall time is so special to me. Before then, fall didn’t matter all that much to me. I didn’t dislike it, but I didn’t favor it like I do currently. Suketu, and fall, are an explosion of color for me in the best way possible. I used to see things in black and white, my world felt boring. The love I started to feel and experience for the first time made fall that much more exciting for me. The activities we’d do together, turning of the leaves, the early morning chilly cross country meets we’d go to together… I miss it, to be honest. Falling in love is an experience I will never, ever forget, or take for granted. It’s deeply rooted in me, and every September I start to drift into that mindset again. Then October is a full-blown nostalgic month for the both of us. I feel it and reminisce for the entirety of the season.
So I guess that’s why I love fall so much. Yes, because for so many reasons it’s just the best season there is, but also because I fell in love with my husband in October. And to that point, it will always be special to me.
See you next week Half Past Crew, I LOVE YOU. What’s your favorite season? Do you love PSL’s?
