Ahh summer, here at last. Time to relax, find a way to darken my pasty complexion, and have crazy adventures with my closest friends because after all: summer time is for the memories.
Or at least, that’s how it used to be.
That was always my mentality for my summers. It was a time to not worry, not think, just create memories that I would reflect on nostalgically during the colder months of the year. In summer there weren’t any repercussions for any of the odd, awkward, and sometimes sketchy situations I found myself in. It was all in good fun, after all we were just kids. To be fair, a lot of my friends are fortunate enough to still have this summer to be reckless.
I however, decided to give the ‘adult’ world a try.
To clarify, I do not consider myself an adult and I don’t think I will for a long time. However, this past week has really shown me that I am older than I thought I was. I have done more adult like tasks in the past week than I have in all of 2014.
What have I done you ask? WELL LET ME ENLIGHTEN YOU:
- I went to a farmers market.
- I moved.
- Other adult like things.
- I signed a sublease.
- I set up the utilities for the house I am staying in this summer under my own name because you know water in important.
- I went grocery shopping.
- I had an interview.
- Other adult like things.
- I worked over thirty hours.
- I did laundry.
- I went to bed every night before 1 am. Ok for me this is a new kind of miracle you don’t even understand.
- Other adult like things.
- I was offered a second job and began my training for that.
- I created an agenda for my entire summer.
- I shipped a package through FedEx.
- ….
- AND OTHER ADULT LIKE THINGS.
Just reading over all of these things makes me feel really old. Will this be a summer with no surprises? No late night heart to hearts with close friends? No waking up after noon every day?
Who knows.
Maybe my summer will become a surprising one afterall.
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