When the heart rules, there’s happiness. It’s like springtime! When there’s a mild sunshine, a cool breeze and flowers blossoming all around. Everything looks positive and happy.

But there are times when the mind takes over from the heart. And then winter sets in. Icy rationale takes over from warm impulses. The heart freezes over and the body simply responds to the cold commands of the analytical mind. Then spidery thoughts enter and weave stubborn webs in the dark recesses of the mind. When a stray ray of hope enters this dark corner it is immediately trapped in the web. The ray disappears and the spider gets stronger. Sometimes, in disgust, you clean up the cobwebs and hope that these spidery thoughts will not enter again. But they are stubborn. They build their web again. And again. And again. Weaving in dark thoughts that comfortably take refuge in the mind. And simply refuse to go. For each time you dust them off, they get woven back with renewed vigor.

Then the chillness increases and the winter intensifies. You let the mind rule and obey its dark commands. The heart is covered by its gloom. Sunshine valiantly struggles to shine through.

What must one do to exorcise these spidery thoughts? To let the sunshine in? To thaw those icicles in the mind? To warm those cold, rational corners? To let the heart take over yet again…

Oh how I want the spring to arrive. For the sunshine to warm my insides. For the heart to take over. To be impulsive and childlike again. Where has the spring gone? When will it come back to me?