Summer Nostalgia

Long summer days where the sun set at 7:30. Sprinklers going off, creating miniature rainbows in the sunlight, where kids would run in just to get wet. Siblings playing bubbles where the older kids blew the bubbles and the younger kids had the privilege to pop them, whether big or small. Teenagers going out on dates with their friends, sleepovers almost every week, picnics at the city parks. New styles of fashion emerged, no more turtlenecks or puffer jackets, all tank tops, swimsuits, and shorts from here. 

The ice cream truck coming every afternoon to battle the permanent seeming heat, only a dollar for the sweet, cold, melting blob of joy, we all savored and adored. Pools with 40-50 people crowded on the weekends, to battle the 90°-100° Fahrenheit weather. Mornings spent sleeping till 11 am, no more school to wake up at 6 am anymore. The pleasure to do whatever you want the entire two months of vacation, to retreat from the tedious & arduous school year. Leisure time spent talking with friends on the phone or constantly eating junk food. The lazy summer heat where no one wants to get in shape and lay around all day. The freedom of the amazing season called summer.

I sit back and reminisce about this sort of fantasy, as school ends in 2 months. With AP Exams right around the corner, I grind all-nighters to make sure I at least understand AP Chem to pass and make sure to time my writings for AP Lang essays so I don’t end up falling behind when it comes time for the actual exam. Every day I wait for summer to come, I constantly find myself face to face with a blue screen, and my eyes squinting at it. 

Finals are 3 weeks after that, which I’m not sure if I will have a final for all my classes. Still I grind, knowing that it’s only a matter of two months before I can live out this fantasy. The hot weather hasn’t arrived yet, despite it being California. “Summer” supposedly comes around this time, where the temperatures rise from 60°-70° Fahrenheit to 80°-90°. Weirdly enough, it hasn’t arrived yet, which could indicate the summer will get hotter. Summer is the break I need, after two consecutive bad summers, I hope this summer will change for the better. I smile at this upcoming summer, as I know it’ll come sooner than I think.

The End