It has been almost two months since I have been home, and when I tell you I am ready to go back to college, I am ready to go back to college.

I have created my own little world there and it's honestly amazing. I have my own friends, my own activities, my own (rented) house, literally my own world. So coming back home where everyone knows my family and everyone knows my past, I'm sure you can understand why I can only take this place in small doses.

But I realized one day, on my rants of needing some personal time, that I love these people and this town, and that I'm not always going to be able to spend my summers here with family.

Eventually, I am going to have to grow up and get a real job (that isn't working for my mother at the family business), and they are not just going to allow me to be able to take months off to go and enjoy my real home.

It is a luxury that gets mistaken for a necessity.

We are not always going to be able to come home.

Right now, at any given moment in the year, the majority of us are able to pack a few things and jump in a car and head home for a quick weekend. That's a luxury. You, we, are not always going to be able to do that.

I know college is an introduction to responsibilities. You have time to get adjusted to the chaotic waters of the adult world. So quit complaining about coming home and taking the summer off.

Enjoy it.

You are not always going to have it. So spend the most of it the best way you can.