Is it just September?

[rm]

I've heard from ex's I don't or barely speak to (sometimes there's a story there, largely, it's just time), college peers I've not communicated with in years etc etc etc ALL MONTH LONG. I just got another one (this on the pleasant spectrum of surprise). I know some of you have gotten a lot of the similar lately.

What is with that?

And do you reach out to people from your dim past in September?

It's not that I didn't feel the urge when the weather changed, it's that I resisted it.

Comments

[zarq.livejournal.com]

I think we're subconsciously ingrained with the idea that September is the start of a new year. Perhaps it's our "New Half Year." But in the New Half Year, we reconnect with old friends and acquaintances. From the time we're young and impressionable, we start our school semesters before the beginning of Fall -- either at the end of August or sometime in September. Maybe as adults, even far removed from school or college, we carry the sense that when it starts to get a little colder there's a new year on the horizon, filled with familiar faces.

It could be that deep down we're trying to recapture that feeling and aren't consciously aware of it.

Hey, I just coined a new term for Rosh Hashanah. ;-)

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. For me, September has always been a mixed month, as I had a ten-year streak of Septembers wherein at least three people I knew (several years running, it was three family members) died in September. You get tired of September funerals....

But I think it is a starting school year, checking on old friends/acquaintances/family, settling in for autumn and winter....

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Of course, I've also worked for twenty years in educational non-profits, so my "year" runs September-June, with July and August spent cleaning up the previous year and prepping for the new one.