When I first fell asleep after the long car ride home, I had the same excitement that a little kid would have when they came home from the summer. After all, I had just finished my first year of college, and obviously the summer after that first important year will be amazing and full of adventure from day one, right?

As it turns out, that is not the case. For the most part, I've just been passing time the same way I did during my free time at school. Reading books, watching Netflix, and, of corse, taking a lot of naps. But now that I am home, there is a whole lot more time to spend doing those things, and it honestly gets old after a while.

When I'm at school, if I get bored I can just go on the student life page and see if there is anything going on on campus that day, and nine times out of ten, there is. Here at home, there is rarely anything going on near by, and most of my friends don't live in walking distance.

And so, I get bored.

But it's not all that bad.

With everything going on at the end of this school year, I have been wound up, and my anxieties have been high. And this gives me the time that I have needed in order to wind down. I'm already noticing some positive change just from getting rid of all the stress.

Not to mention the things that I have missed, such as my families hugs, the home cooked food, and decent wifi connection.

The summer may not be the total adventure that I was looking forward to, but that isn't a horrible thing at all. And after all, the summer has just started.

And isn't it just a little bit to soon to start labeling this summer as boring?

Regardless of what happens, and whether or not it meets your expectations, it is important to make the time you have matter for you in some way.

Because that, not the amount of things you check off your bucket list, is what's going to make the summer count.