Summertime

The last days of school…so many thoughts and emotions running through everyone’s head: plans to make and keep, happiness and sadness (both because school is over), excitement about the unknown days ahead. Yearbooks being signed left and right, always with the promise that “we’ll all hang out” or that we’ll “call to set something up”; promises that are rarely kept. Now that summer is here, we all think we’re free from the prison that holds us to way too many obligations for nine months of the year. We have not escaped, however, we have only moved; moved to the mental prison that is summer: brokenness, broken plans, broken hearts, broken promises, broken friendships. All these broken things keep us trapped until we once more enter the institution of school. So why do people get so excited for summer? Because, like in the rest of our lives, the good outweighs the bad nine times out of ten. Long days at the beach, BBQs, parties, and friends 24/7 make up for any plans you may break or fights you may have. Sure, people have work and they have sports practices and other things but there’s always time for your friends some other time during the day. That’s the real meaning, the real excitement behind summer, isn’t it? FRIENDS. As teenagers, friends make and shape our lives. Sure, we see people during school, but summer…In summer, you pick whom, and when you want to hang out. You aren’t confined to the hours between school and curfew. And THAT is the beauty of summer. The fact that you can do whatever you want, whenever you want, and see your friends constantly while you do it, that is SUMMER.

Dedicated to everyone who make my summers memorable: Robbie, Taylor, Michael, Abbi, Natalie, Nate, Emily, and EVERYONE else who made last summer awesome. I can't wait till next year!

5-14-2008

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