why spring is my least favorite season
03 Apr 2026“what?! how could you possibly say that?!”
i get a lot of flack from people when i tell them that spring is my least favorite season. sometimes people look at me like i’m nuts. and partly, i get it. what’s not to love about daffodils and tulips and the light getting longer and “crisp” air?
if you ask me, PLENTY. (and don’t get me started about “crisp” lol…)
to be clear, i do generally love all those things (except “crisp” air).
and tbh, i used to say i hated spring. in the past two years i’ve softened on that stance but i still think it’s my least favorite of the 4. of course, depending on where/who you are, even the framework of 4 seasons is kind of bunk (see the 12 seasons of new england, see book about the seasons of new england - link coming someday when i can remember this book title).
my main reason is two-fold and generally quite straightforward:
- i like stability.
- getting going is harder for me than slowing down.
stability
winter and summer are the shoulder seasons. i currently have a much strongerr preference for being warm than cold, so that’s why summer beats winter for me. but i also have a preference for stability over flux. by nature (lol) they are times of transition.
if the transition were smooth and gradual, maybe i could be with it more easefully. but it’s the erratic back and forths, the ups and downs that i can’t handle. for example, here is boston, yesterday the high was 70. today the high is 39. i left my coat in my friend’s car and my winter hat at my partner’s house. yesterday, i didn’t need them; today i need them desperately. i STRONGLY dislike that wild swinging back and forth.
start up vs slow down
the second part of my reason here is that, in some aspects of my life, it feels harder for me to get started than to slow down. as an aries, that might be confusing because we LOVE to start shit (in every respect of that phrase lol).
but what’s true is that over the last many years of my spiritual journey, i’ve done lots of work on learning how to slow down and let go. i’m still not great at it, but i have put in enough work to feel more able to do it.
so these days, going from the slow, cozy, horizontal, snuggled mode of winter into the batshit wildness of doing everything everyhwere all at once is TOUGH.
so that’s what i got.
i need to run into the gym so i’m not late for my 730a meeting but i have a part two brewing in me about my feelings about other people’s feelings about spring. more on that one next time…
ps - my current ranking of seasons (fight me)
- summer
- winter
- fall
- spring
pps - the order of fall and spring swap depending on what’s feeling particularly hard for me at any given time. i used to say “anything that takes me out of my favorite season is going to be hard and that’s why fall is my least favorite.” i don’t feel that anymore but it was definitely strongly felt at one point in my not too distant life.
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