I got my toes in my boots and butt in the… snow? Admit it, we’ve all tried to reminisce about the glory days of summer where we were like the Zac Brown Band while we laid out in the middle of piles of snow and gazed up at the beautiful white flurries invading our vision. Like me, you can try to imagine yourself lying on a beach somewhere in the dead of winter, or you can just go ahead and do it when summer actually rolls around. Move aside frozen toes and red noses, summer is here to join your party.

No matter how many times someone tries to argue about how summerisn’tthe best season, it will always be the best season. Always. Not one person can say that they truly hate how the weather is so beautiful or how they love winter because they can’t go water skiing or take kayak trips down the rapids. Summer is the time to be alive! It’s the time to embrace the warm fuzzy feelings that summer wants to give you to get out there and do whatever makes you happy. That means embracing that wild side that’s been caged up all winter long and be your own spirit animal because you can and set that caged animal free!

Summer is the season for embracing and uncaging your wild side because you can’t and won’t be tamed. Just ask Miley, she knows. Take that spontaneous trip on a weekend that you know you’re dying to go on. Nobody can stop you because you need to take that little vacation away from your regular life to keep you sane. Take a friend, or go alone, and hop in your car and zoom away to freedom. If you wanted to take that trip in the dead and cold feelings of winter, you can, but it won’t be nearly as pleasant and wonderful as taking a trip during the beautiful sounds of sweet, sweet summertime. Or if you’re like me and don’t necessarily have the time to go on a super spontaneous road trip, go up to your cabin. The cabin is my happy place and always will be. It is always my home away from home and is still my oasis from regular work and life. It’s either cabin living or no living. There’s really no in between.

Summer is the time to do more of what makes you happy that you normally can’t do during other times of the year. For example, you can’t water ski in a hot tub or water ski down a downhill ski slope. It can’t and will never happen. Practice that ski pyramid that you’ve been perfecting in your sleep and make it happen! Even if you don’t know how, then the time has never been more right to learn. Don’t like to ski? No problem, hop on that wakeboard or take a ride on the knee board. Even if you aren’t a big water sports fanatic, just go for a swim and embrace the freedom you have and bask yourself in it.

Learn to explore and love the world around you and see what it has to offer. It won’t disappoint. Summer is the best time to rediscover yourself and rekindle that old flame with past hobby loves that you’ve been neglecting for the year. Be who you want to be, not just in the summer season but all year round as well. Keep that wild streak you know you have going throughout the summer and even throughout the rest of the year. After all, what is life if you don’t learn to live it? So go out there and really get those toes in the water and butt in the sand because it will be so worth it.