Winter Wonderland.

Thanksgiving has passed and Christmas is just around the corner. The Christmas music has been playing in the stores since Halloween.

Once Christmas has passes, the new year will come, showing another year passed. Another year closer to our demise.

This is a year I’d like to forget, just like last year. Don’t get me wrong, I had some good parts to the year. Very good parts.

But overall, just like last year, the year has been tainted and become a dud. Now I’m just counting down the days.

I always hope around this time that when the new year comes, it will be like a fresh start but I know, the only thing that has changed is the year on my papers. I’m still who I was before, and everyone else is who they were.

New years resolutions will be made, and then broken within the first week.

I hope this year will be different. I don’t have the best of luck with Christmas. It is as though this holiday doesn’t like me.

One thing is for sure, just like last year, I want to walk in the cold and look at the Christmas lights.

I always wanted to have the scene in the movies. Where the windows are covered in frost and the snow creates sheets across the ground. During the day everything is white, but during the night, when the lights come on, the snow reflects the lights like thousands of mini mirrors, and the world turns into a winter wonderland.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t snow where I live. Once I am eighteen, and can leave this town, I’ll get my winter wonderland.

I promise you that.

The sky will be lit up in brilliant colors and I’ll have to wrap myself tight just to stay warm.

And when I’m older, I’ll crouch in front a fire, with my hot chocolate, the love of my life, and just reflect on how beautiful the world is this time of year.

We’ll look at how lucky we are to be here to witness it, together. To share the memory.