Each year, there are four seasons including spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each season has its own nuance and climate. If the autumn is cool and gentle; the winter is cold and peaceful; the spring is joyful and warm, the summer is ardent with full of memories associated with school-age.
Wherever phoenix flowers are, they cannot be mixed with any other flowers because the phoenix flowers inherently have their own unique beauty. Every summer, throughout the three regions of the country, the red phoenix flowers bloom brilliantly. When the sudden rains fall in mid-May, the phoenix flowers are in full bloom. Bright red phoenix flowers blooming in the corner of the sky signal a coming vibrant summer. This is also the kind of flower that reminds us of beautiful memories of our school time. Moreover, red phoenix flowers reveal the end of the school year, it’s time to say goodbye to friends, say goodbye to school with unfinished guest books with dried phoenix petals containing remembrances. To senior students, the season of phoenix flowers also signals a farewell season. That crimson color captivates and sparkles, but saddens many hearts because it is time for them to say farewells.
The image of the red phoenix beams cannot stop us fretting intensively about the beautiful summers that have passed: missing our friends, our teachers, the tingling cicadas and the hot summer sunshine and even remembering the childhood with games associated with the flowers named phoenix. Stooping down to pick up the falling phoenix flowers, no one avoids feeling sad when recalling the memories of a time in white uniform, smiling freely, loving without inhibition, singing without care, holding each other’s hands at ease without fear or blush. That is the reason why phoenix flowers are often associated with the pure love of school time.
The season of phoenix flowers comes so quickly and also leaves as fast as if we just took a nap that it would be up to the morning. Youth is the same, except that the phoenix flower season still returns but the youth comes only once. What must we do to make the phoenix flower season pass without regrets and the remaining youth become meaningful?
By Thanh Loan
