Find those people that make you remember why you do it. Find those people that make you relish those very few days off from work. The people that continuously inspire you to keep working hard, while simultaneously making sure you take the time to stop and enjoy the things around you.

Find the people who want to spend a summer day floating on a raft with you discussing absolutely everything from past relationships to future goals, to absolutely nothing like whether a hot dog is a sandwich or if Kourtney Kardashian is the realist “Bounce Back” there could be after taking an L.

Hangout with the friends that will get in your car last minute and randomly go on a road trip with you or try out that new bar that just opened down the street. Find the people that will randomly get a bunch of scary movies and stay up late watching them with you just to see if they will actually freak you out.

These are the people that hold the soul of summer.

These are the friends that will look back at these moments years from now and remember not the feeling of summer itself, but the feeling of happiness that was created from being with you in the heat of the summer. In this time of our lives, when we spend so much time working to raise money for college and bills, or just to get our foot in the right direction of our careers, we get so goal orientated we tend to skip the here and now. We miss all the important things that are happening around us. True, every moment is precious at this age to make the right connections and the right moves to have a better future.

So why spend the time we do have free being without the people that make life worth living or without taking the time to relish the true purpose of summer break? Raise a glass with a friend, get lost on some long road to the middle of nowhere fast, rent a ridiculous amount of scary movies, float on a raft, stare up at the sky and discuss every big and silly question your mind has in these summer months.

Just never forget that, in the end, it's human connections that truly make us happy. No matter how hard we work, or how successful our careers are, we can never truly be happy without people close to us to enjoy it with. If you are lucky enough to find those people, every day will be a summer adventure.