You know what they say: If you’re in a season that feels and looks too good to be true, it probably is. Here are 5 signs to figure out whether you’re actually experiencing spring, or just being sunlighted:
- You get gorgeous flowers right after it rains: Is this season trying to wash away all memories of how gloomy last week was like it didn’t even happen with a big, colorful bouquet of flowers—especially ones with daffodils aka narcissus flowers? May seem nice at first, but you’re actually just being sunlighted.
- You’re sun-bombed at the beginning of the season: Sun-bombing is when a season overwhelms you with so much glorious sun you literally can’t see which way is up because you don’t know where you put your sunglasses away 9 months ago. Then, all of a sudden, it’s gone and you don’t know where it went and you can’t get it back no matter how hard you try. Hard truth: You’re never getting it back because the sun-bombing was just another way to sunlight you into thinking this was a real spring, when it never really was. Time to move on to more reliable and fortunately hotter seasons like summer, honey.
- It keeps going hot and cold on you: One second you’re basking in what seems to be a limitless light descending straight from heaven onto you. The next it’s a chilly, literally record-breaking 40 degrees. And every time you hope it’s the last cold snap, it never is. Put simply: You’re stuck in the toxic cycle of sunlighting.
- You grew up being sunlighted all the time: If you grew up with seasons that constantly sunlighted you, you may be so used to it you don’t even notice it when it happens to you as an adult.
- You feel like you’re the crazy one for expecting it to be real spring: It’s April—a completely understandable and rational time in your life to be expecting an actual spring. But this season keeps making you feel crazy for thinking snow shouldn’t be in the forecast again until November. You’re not, though, girl. It’s just textbook sunlighting that should have you packing your bags and flying away for quick flora fling with a California superbloom.
If you are being sunlighted – take heart, darling! It happens to the best of us, aka the entire Pacific Northwest.
