Enter Summer

Its June and almost 100 degrees outside and my hometown basketball team just won the championship – which only means – its Summer! Its that time where you can kick off your shoes along with memories and thoughts you no longer need. Summer is about flip flops, letting your hair grow out, reading books cover to cover on the beach under you favorite palm tree and looking at the world with renewed freshness (I even got a new pair of glasses minus the rose colored lenses).

Yendi’s New Non-Rose Colored Specs

We are creatures of habit even when we try to take a new path or read self-improvement books. I have this innate quality of looking at the world through those rose colored glasses. Don’t get me wrong, its not necessarily a bad thing, but it can lead you to your very own disappointments of things that may have already played out in your mind. At the very center of who we are, there is a habit mechanism of which we are all slaves to. Some try to quit smoking but they cannot get over the hand-to-mouth fixation others try to commit to relationships but have trouble going outside their daily routine to accommodate someone else. None of this makes us bad people, it just makes us human. Who wouldn’t want to believe that you, yourself, are the most amazing most special person who totally belongs with that other most spectacular person? We are all amazing and special in our own way and to different people (not necessarily the ones we think should view us that way, but to the ones that were meant to see our true value).

To me summer is a time for renewal and re-thinking this whole thing called life. Sometimes we complicate ourselves so much and get wrapped up in the rush of everything that surrounds us that we forget the delicious simplicity of summer. Things like strawberries and mangoes, sitting on the dock at twilight, and making out with your crush under the rain are all the beautiful things the universe supplies us as a reminder that life should be approached just like the summer. Recharging the human battery and letting the summer tides roll away with the thoughts and perceptions you no longer need is how we get one step closer our true self.

Let the summer sun clear away that rose tint on your glasses. Sit on the dock and eat a mango you picked off of a tree or go to your spot on the beach where only those that know you well enough can find you. Get crazy and go skinny dipping at night without worrying about the sharks and let yourself fall in love. Summertime is my time to climb to that platform and jump. Stay tuned my friends, the summer is just getting started.