Summer, the lights, the music, the friends, the freedom and the memories. These are the things that make summer the best time of the year. Middle school is nothing compared to high school. We are older, more confident, more mature and a bit cheekier. The best stories in our old age will come from the fun we have in our youth. Genuine fun, the good times that we will actually remember in the morning are my favourite.
Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat are fun but I want to keep my memories close to my heart and not just on my screen. Put your phone away, leave the music on shuffle, and make some memories that are just yours that no one else knows about. Climb onto the roof; get in the back of a truck with a couple friends and some tents (or sleeping bags.) Talk all night, look at the stars, feel the fresh air instead of just watching a movie and prank calling all night!
Surround yourself with good people, people you fully trust. If you don’t like something, say something about it. If you don’t like someone, leave; don’t spend another second not being true to you. Don’t hurt people just for fun and don’t say things you don’t mean. A single second you fight is a second of amazing memories that you have just lost out on. Have a blast, go crazy, but think before you act. Be kind and compassionate, not ruthless and rude. Be someone who you would want to hang around.
Lazy days are the best after a long, hard, grueling school year. However, it only feels amazing if you have worked for it. Don’t spend your entire summer sleeping and wasting the days away because the days can hold just as many secrets as the nights. Feel your soul come alive, dance all night, sing all day and love every moment of your life.
Take it all in, soak in every moment. Don’t think about the previous day or the next day. Stay in the present, let it suck you in. Stop dying to jump into the next ‘fun’ day because soon you’ll just be dying and realize that you missed it all. You kept dying to move on that you never really lived and you will just be dying, wishing that you took more risks, did what YOU wanted to do and took it all in.
You only have one life so enjoy it, every breath you take should make you feel something. You should be excited to wake up and jump out of bed, excited to crawl back into bed, every moment that your heart beats you should feel it in your bones. Every second you should tingle inside, have a sparkle in your eye and not be able to stop smiling.
You should feel beautiful, confident in your own skin. Not just for the summer but for your whole life. However, summer means no school, no peer pressure which makes it easier for you to work on you and your flaws that you want to change. You don’t have to face the judgment of other people for 6-8 hours a day. These 60 days are yours, all yours. They are what you make them, so make the best days for you.
Don’t care about what anyone thinks about you, other than yourself. Take a break, breathe, look at the world. Go back to school confident, more confident than the year before, better yourself so that you eventually accept yourself 100% and you live for no one but you.
Summer is a short holiday, but it’s what keeps us motivated the entire year. Take a minute or two out of these 60 days to reflect on your school year. How much hard work you put it and what you got out of it. If you are truly happy, then so be it. If you are not, work at it, nothing is perfect. Keep working until you get to the place that you want to be. It can be for hours every day or for a few minutes every week. Just know that you tried your best and worked your hardest for the next year because the harder you work now, the better you will feel later. Also, remember, that you are not just an award, not just a number and most certainly not just a letter. An C makes you no less of a person. It just means one of two things; you haven’t gotten to where you want to be or that you are content being where you are and you are happy. If you aren’t happy, keep working and kick life in the ass, prove everyone wrong and prove yourself right. If you are happy, smile, keep your head up and don’t let anyone drag you down into the mud with them.
Summer is the best time of the year so do what makes you happy, make the best of the days because no one knows when the bus is coming. If you care about someone, tell them. If they make you smile, tell them. If you are happy, shout it from the roof tops. Summer is your month/s to learn and grow on your own or with your friends and family. Make it yours and make it count because summers end, people change but your memories are forever.
[As a tip, write a journal or have a photo album because when old age comes, and believe me, it will, you will never remember as much as you once did so it is always good to have a keepsake to spark those memories, so you’ll never EVER forget.]
Be safe, stay strong and be happy. Make it yours and make it count. Feel your soul come alive every single damn second, that is the only way to truly live.
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