A Week of Apathy

Hello again, dear readers. I must apologize for my week devoid of posts. I'm afraid that my severe sunburn not only left my physically immobile, but mentally as well. To be completely honest, I haven't felt like doing anything over the past week. As such, I've spent my time watching movies, reading books, and spending absurd amounts of time on the internet. [Word of caution: StumbleUpon will result in hours of mindless internet use]

But, with only three days left until my departure, I felt that I must take the opportunity to say a few things about summer. I've spent some time thinking about the different activities that my friends and I will be doing this summer. Whereas some people are traveling Europe, others are working 40-hour weeks at the local supermarket or at a poorly-paid internship. Then, of course, there are some people, like myself, who will be spending their summer at a summer camp in middle-of-nowhere Maine. While my friends are miserable in office cubicles or behind cash registers, I'll be enjoying the lovely outdoors and eloquent simplicity that accompany a lack of technology and society. While I will certainly miss my friends and family, I am excited to spend a summer away from the monotonous drone of 21st century society. Why spend a summer on a laptop when I could spend it on the back of a horse?

So, I challenge each of you to think about what you're doing this summer. If you're stuck with a job you abhor, I advise you to 1] remember that it is fortunate to have a job during the recession, and 2] do something with your spare time that is productive or, at least, enjoyable. While you might not want to spend the summer taking classes, keep your wits about you by reading (or writing) books, taking photographs, taking trips, doing SOMETHING that is worth remembering your summer by. You shouldn't look back at 2011 as the summer you worked at the Piggly Wiggly; you should look back at 2011 as the summer you took thousands of photographs or wrote a book or took random hikes or learned about flowers or began playing the guitar or lost weight or the SUMMER THAT SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENED.

For me, I'm determined to make this the "summer something GREAT happened."I'm not sure what my "great" thing is yet; but, when I figure that out, I'll let you know!