“It didn't seem like ‘winter’ this year didn't it?” - “All I remember was rain, barely any snow, it was warm on Christmas day!”. It seems that winter passes over in bliss today, as the days and months move faster every year. As we remember him winter is that person you see amid a new beginning, it reminds you one year has ended and the other has started with his cold steps that blanket the world in snow and cold weather. For some, his effects bring fear, death, and destruction as his cold weather smacks you so hard across the face it feels hot - while for many others he brings warmth and a time where you can huddle up and spend time with those who are close. Again and again, we act the same way, asking ourselves “Already?” when he arrives but yet again time moves on and he's gone as quickly as he came. As the years go on and more and more of us settle the Earth, winter seems to be losing its presence. It seems his thick and fluffy snow blankets warm up and just bring down cold and miserable rain. The snow piles we remember climbing on and making our castles melt faster, never returning to their full forms. Yet somehow, we don't care, most of us know it's happening but who cares? We each have our own lives and to most people seeing winter's sister season becoming longer, warmer, and predominant seems like a win right? If our summers would only get hotter by a twentieth of a degree every year, what's the issue? As the world thinks this, winter and his spirit die, he slowly fades away into that “cold and wet” time of the year and not “the holidays”. As we enter another year, where the world is hotter and the sun's light creeps upon our Earth we can try and ignore winter and try to enjoy the coldest summer of the rest of our lives.