Today's little thing that meant the most came about two hours ago. It was a family movie night in Hilton Head. Also, the swelling in my ankle and foot is going down. The bruising is still pretty vicious, but every day that goes by the bruising moves farther down my foot and that much closer to being gone.
Aside from that I'm still on vacation. There's no reason for a kid my age to ever complain while he's on vacation. I don't have any complaints in all honesty. I just wish I didn't have to trudge my ass down to the beach with a boot on my right foot. Aside from that, vacation has been as relaxing as I had hoped and I'm getting a ton of sun.
I don't want summer to end. I'm just now learning how to cope. Some of you might say, "Well summer isn't supposed to be about coping, is it?" And to that I say it depends. Depends on what you surround yourself with every summer, depends on how your past summers have gone, and depends on what your future summers are going to look like. While I don't want it to end I won't be especially sad when it does end. School doesn't depress me in the slightest. I'm actually really excited for this coming year.
Past summers have been different than this summer and future summers look a lot different than this one...or at least it seems that way.
One thing I've learned about summer these past fews years is that it's more a time to bridge spring and fall than it is to be its own. While it may last four months its implications aren't that of a separate season. Summer is a time to forget about the realities of the past spring and the uncertainty of the impending fall.
Summer's more like a dream than any state of awake. It comes and goes before you know it leaving you in its wake. When it's over you try to remember as much of it as you can, but as you struggle to do so you realize it doesn't matter if you remember. It's over, it isn't coming back, and what's done is done.
Done isn't bad though. Done is necessary. Dreams aren't meant to last. Dreams at night don't last so that you can face the reality of life and chase the dreams that really mean something.
Make your summer one worth remembering because if it is to be a dream it might as well be the most beautiful, dazzling dream you can create. Summer is, in one way or another, a dream you're in control of. So fill your summers with color, laughter, love, and humor. Don't take yourself too seriously because I find that the dreams I'm serous in are the ones I die in.
Enjoy.
NP: Good Life- Francis Dunnery
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