There are some things I love about summer. I love how it stays light longer, I love that I can drink iced coffee without shivering, and I love the green grass. But there's also something about summer that I have a hard time escaping. And it's the melancholy feeling that comes from sitting in a sort of "limbo land."
With more free time, you find yourself reflecting a lot on the year and wondering if you could've tried harder. Wondering if you could've tried harder leads to regret. For someone who already is quieter and more reflective than most, I will sometimes obsess over past mistakes as if I'm redeeming myself by "paying" some sort of imaginary moral debt. Sadly, this often comes from boredom more than anything else.
It's easy to think when you look at everyone's Instagram pictures that you're the only one whose state of mind doesn't match the sunny temperature outside — and it tends to lead to not reaching out to people who could help.
So I just wanted to write this article as a way to let everyone, like me, who tends to have a whirring mind and overactive imagination, when they have a lot of time on their hands, that they are going into a new school year or year of work this fall.
And they are going to accomplish so much.