- This summer will be one full of adventures! You'll go on road trips with your friends, you'll be free from all responsibility and you'll sleep in a truck bed on the beach somewhere for days and be perfectly content.
The biggest adventure you'll go on this summer is flying from home to see your BFF from high school at her school a few states away. The trip alone will wipe your bank account clean, and you'll spend the rest of your summer picking up double shifts to make up for your “weekend of spontaneity” because there are these things called rent, tuition, and sorority payments that start back up again in the fall, and you need to be prepared.
Sidenote: sleeping in the bed of a truck is not as romantic and care-free as it sounds. It's cold, there are bugs, and truck beds have ridges on them. I urge you to rethink this “adventure”.
- You'll meet the love of your life this summer. You'll spend every waking moment with him. When you meet his family on the Fourth of July, his mother will teach you how to make her famous blueberry pie and he'll fall head-over-heels for you when he sees you chatting away with his dad on the patio. As the fireworks go off that night in the sky, so they will in your heart, *swoon*.
Some guy will accidentally spill his drink on you while you're enjoying a night off at your favorite bar. Within two hours you'll be looking longingly into his eyes as he describes how excited he is for a fresh crop of pledges to drive him around in the fall, because he did it when he was a pledge and “it builds character”. You probably won't hear from him again after that night except for a few what-are-you-doing-tonight texts at 3 a.m. throughout the summer. Odds are you'll spend most of your nights alone, watching re-runs of Greys because you just don't accept that McDreamy and McSteamy had to go. Seriously Shonda Rhimes, what kind of monster are you?
- You're going to get fit, and you'll never look so good in a bikini as you will this summer. Because you have more free time you'll obviously spend it in the gym. And when you go on that annual family vacation to the beach, you'll be that hot girl jogging in the mornings through the sand, watching the sun rise over the ocean.
The first couple of times you go to the gym, you'll realize how much you actually hate exercise. And if one more person says “you just have to push past the first two weeks” you might actually throw a dumbbell at them. You'll see those girls at the pool of your apartment complex with their perfectly flat stomachs and toned arms and get motivated to get it together, but then you'll go out that night and accidentally indulge in four tacos and three slices of pizza. You do you, girl. Beauty knows no bounds.
The fact of the matter is this summer is what you make it. You can either keep looking at those beautiful, artsy pictures on Pinterest and day-dreaming about the kind of summer you can have, or you can accept it for what it is. You probably won't spend a week on a beach in Greece, you'll most likely end up hanging with your ex a good majority of the time because it's summer and you can do what you want, and you'll do your fitness plan no favors by drinking your weight in sugary, calorie-ridden margaritas. But at least you'll be in the sun, and at least you'll be in your favorite college town with your favorite people.
Things could be worse.
