1. You thought you would go on a bunch of fun trips with your friends, maybe backpacking through Europe? In reality, you don't make enough at your minimum wage job, so family vacay it is! You imagined going on cross-country road trips, you saw pictures of a blogger skydiving, and another picture of someone jumping off a cliff in Hawaii. You imagine that your summer will look something similar to this—Instagram and tumblr perfect. But in reality, you are working five days a week and making approximately eight dollars an hour. You don't have the money to pay for the gas to get across the country, let alone the time off to get there. So off to grandma's house you go!
2. You thought you would be going out every night with your friends, but in reality you're exhausted after you get home from your eight hour (or more) shift and simply want junk food and to lounge on your couch binge watching a Netflix show. You thought that summer would be a great excuse to go out every night without the responsibility of studying or a test the next day. Before you go into your summer job, you think to yourself, "I am going to go out tonight, have a good time with my friends, and be totally fine waking up early tomorrow for work." But actually, after your eight-hour shift of being on your feet all day and faking being nice to customers, you're exhausted and hungry. At this point all you want is Netflix, popcorn, and a comfy couch.
3. You plan on spending all day every day at the beach, but actually you sleep in late, your friends are working, and you end up binge-watching Netflix, once again. So you're going to spend every day all day at the beach and get that glowing tan you've been waiting for all year, huh? You already slept in super late, because you were exhausted from the night before. Now it's time to call your friends and get to the beach. But when you call, everyone is of course, working. You panic because you can't go to the beach as a loner, so instead you settle for the couch and a Netflix marathon (this is what you really wanted anyway).
4. You planned on a summer of relaxing, sleeping in, and doing whatever you want whenever you want, but in actuality you're back home and under your parent's roof again which means, nagging about chores. That college-life freedom has now escaped you, you are twenty years old and once again have a curfew and a list of chores to do in order to "earn your keep." It's now a method of your parents using you to do things they had to do all year, such as run to the dry cleaner, go to the grocery store, be at the house for repairs, mow the lawn, etc.
5. You devote yourself to the perfect beach body, but actually you decide that working out just isn't for you. It's swimsuit season and your past ten months of drinking and eating junk food has made you unable able to walk to class without arriving in a pant and a light sweat. It is time to get in shape! You go to the gym for the first time and its not too awful...until the next day when you can't walk and decide that going from the couch to the refrigerator might be the better workout fit for you.
6. You planned to be productive and read the books you have had on your list since forever, but actually you end up re-watching the entire series of Gossip Girl. So now that you have no tests or homework, you figure its a good time to get caught up on the books you have had on your reading list. Then you realize that your motivation isn't as rested from finals week as you had thought, so you settle for reruns of your favorite Netflix show.
7. You're looking forward to an exciting summer romance! In reality, finding cute boys is hard. Watching more Netflix isn't.
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