Sometimes when you read stories, you can't understand it all and make absolutely no connections to it. Other times it is more than easy to connect a story to your own life and feel exactly what the characters are feeling. Just like I felt with the story To Everything There is a Season. It is a nice story about a boy's memory into adolescence. Something that everyone goes through at some point in their life.
The story is told from the point of view of man looking back on his childhood and remembering one special moment in his life at the age of eleven. During Christmas when he learns that Santa Claus is really his adored older brother who's been sending home presents for the younger kids. It was a tough emotional moment for the boy but he accepted the fact that that part of his life was over and he was growing up. He may have accepted it but never forgot it.
It is the same thing for many other people just like myself. You have to go through times where things that used to be magical and made childhood more enjoyable, aren't the same and you realize that they don't exist anymore. The Tooth Fairy, the Easter bunny and Santa Claus, are all things that kids put all their faith in and can be crushed when they find out the truth. Or they learn to appreciate what their parents/guardians have done for them over the years by putting a lot of effort into being Santa or the Tooth Fairy and they gain more love for the occasion, just like the young boy who respected his brother even more.It's normally a different experience depending on the person but just like the main character of the story, they normally never forget it.
To Everything There is a Season is a sweet, touching story and connects very well to anyone who has gone through childhood, basically everyone except those who never choose never to grow up, and describes everyone's common feelings of the experience.
