Two women passed me on the sidewalk, going in the opposite direction. As they passed, I heard the older one say to the younger one ‘ I want to feel like I deserve Spring’. And then they were out of ear shot. It was 70 degree weather on this early March day; not exactly City Winter Weather. But I thought to myself upon contemplation, isn’t that expressed thought an inconvenient truth? Why put yourself through something you don’t like, to appreciate what you do like. Why not just enjoy more of what you do like, when you get it, without judging how or when. Or are we all so Western we think we have to suffer to enjoy a wished for state. Guess that is where religion got paradise and why it works for many as a way to get through today; get through today without being in today, because one is so focused on the future. I felt sad for her.