Comments | likkledibbun: I don't know how to appreciate how lucky I am

likkledibbun

I don't know how to appreciate how lucky I am

Jul 25, 2009 20:13

I miss the idea of summer.

I miss the noble dashing romantic heroic summer that swept me up when school was ending, and promised me that this would be the summer of my life.

For some reason I thought this summer, '08-09, summer of high-school-to-college, was supposed to be something special. Something epic, milestone-esque in the timeline of my ( Read more... )

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bloodpyrope July 26 2009, 19:28:43 UTC

Wow you wake up at 7? Um, how bout driving in the afternoon? Or at night, like around 8 or 9? I know my brother drove at night...

likkledibbun July 28 2009, 00:57:48 UTC

Apparently Mom thinks driving at night is too dangerous. And since she works during the day, that means morning is the only really logical choice. :

deformed_cookie July 28 2009, 03:48:36 UTC

Not to be harsh, but amazing things don't happen to ordinary people. Ordinary people must seek the amazing.

There's still time left to make your summer extraordinary, but you have to go out there and find it - be it a job, or a friend, or a romance, or a tragedy, or something unexpected but exhilarating.

If you don't believe it's special enough now, it probably really isn't. You're sound like you're looking for something that's missing, but you don't know what it is, and you're trying to justify to yourself that you're satisfied when you're not.

Best of luck to you!

likkledibbun July 30 2009, 06:27:23 UTC

Haha, it's more like, time crunch than lack of expectation or anything.

Thanks anyway. (:

keikichi July 30 2009, 03:09:31 UTC

zzz I always get myself overly excited about summer but my summers never seem to live up to their hype haha Let's do something when you don't have class :D

lost_overture July 30 2009, 13:15:32 UTC

Wow... I'm sorry about the driving thing. I remember how quickly driving practice with my mom got old after awhile. =/

Overall though, I think it's a matter of perspective. Treat every day as the same mundane routine, and that's what it will become. Think of it instead as an opportunity to learn something, to gain some new experience, or simply to revel in the fact that there's no more AP's, SAT's, or college apps, then even if in fact each day is mostly the same, you will feel more satisfied. (Yes, I have been reading that book. I will return it when I get back to the US. ._.;)

likkledibbun July 31 2009, 00:38:43 UTC

Haha, that was a total stfu-emo-kid-slap.

Thanks. (: