By: Maria Reylan M. GarciaIn less than a week, everything will change.
Everything will be entirely different the moment it comes.
No one will be able to stop its domination.
Every person, young or old, will bow revering its radiance. It will force a new type of dress code that requires moreshow of skin. It will leave many no choice but to plunge themselves into the watery depths. But beware, the youth will be its power, they will deem it as their new master, forgetting the scholastic regime.Yet some will take chances and pacify its power, but neither sun-blocklotions nor ice creams will be worthy enough to wage war. In less than a week, we will meet our conqueror; we will meet Summer.
If it may appear that I have attributed summer to some sci-fi movie where every one gets captured by sun-loving UFOs. But, summer is indeed a power, a dominion, and for a few months of its reign, we willfully accept to be colonized. I am at awe at how summer could radically change our very lifestyle; fashion, food preferences,vacation destinations, the speed of our electric fans, the thermostat level of our air conditioners. It is like a maddening fad that gives us no options but to follow since it offers fun, relaxation and enough reason to wear sunglasses without being tagged as having sore-eyes.And we who are still in white uniforms and black school shoes define summer as the temporary freedom before graduation. I could now sleep until noontime without tardy slips stuck on my face. I could now choose to laze myself around the television without feeling anxious for an exam the next day.
I could now relieve myself of the pressures of schoolwork and convert them into a big bowl of icy halo-halo. I get apprehensive and so excited even just thinking about it. Those ten months even with a breather of Christmas and semestral breaks mixes caffeine to combat those drowsy eyes, ball pen inks regardless of color and laundry detergent for the white uniforms into a cauldron that boils with stress and a cry for a longer break.
Yet I wonder, the moment we reach even just halfway of our vacation,we begin to miss our routines. We begin to feel quite bored about sleeping and waking up late. We begin to feel quite not so entertained with the same shows on television. We begin to feel quite awkward without the stress behind work and school.
The cycle lives on, the moment we enrolled ourselves for the next semester we begin to miss vacation and the moment we throw ourselves into the comforts of vacation we begin to miss school. You simply can’t have both at the same time.I used to dream about dividing the 12 months equally for school and vacation, that way it will satisfy both the drive to work and the urgeto relax. But then I realized if you’ll have equal amounts of fun andstress, you won’t be able to realize each of their worth, there will be lesser longing.
We sorely long for vacation since it is seldom and rare. We miss our routines since it has been a huge part of our day today. We won’t long for vacation if it comes that often and in a longer span. We won’t miss our routines if it would not appear as routines since it covers just about the same span as our vacation.Life will be more fun if we continue to long and miss, to anticipate and to yearn. The best that we could do to combat momentarily our longing is to make the bets out of each while they last. Spend summer as if it will never come again.
Do your work with the fear of losing it. That is why when it is vacation, we rest and that means we don’t bring our work into family outings or cram our hearts out for the next semester’s subjects. That is why when it is schooldays and working days, we study and we work and that means we minimize our leisure to maximize our time.
This summer, you have no reason but to relax, chill and have fun because in a few months you’ll have all the time to cram, be stressed and have everything but fun.
In less than a week, everything will change.
Get your summer on!
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