I couldn’t come up with an article idea for this week.

In fact, it took me until Saturday to finally realize what my problem is: nothing has really happened to me this week, or even over the past 2 weeks. They passed by so quickly. I’ve accomplished things; I finished my second big project for my summer class and I successfully made a YouTube video in the category of “in-depth review”. But both of those things are a part of something bigger and I’ll write about them when they are complete. I hung out with some friends and my grandparents (two separate occasions, one with Shakespeare, one with a campfire) but while I enjoyed the experiences immensely, there’s nothing I could write 500 words about. And since it’s July, there’s still a month left of my jobs and no school, so commenting on those would be jumping the gun a little and leaving a gap in my future analysis. Nothing article-worthy has happened, which is making me feel a little strange.

So what’s left but my realization that once again my summer has blown by without anything of note happening. It’s fine, I guess. I don’t need every weekend to include some grand party (in fact, I haven’t had a free Saturday since the day after school ended. And even that was a road trip). There are little gems here and there, like I mentioned above. And it’s partially my fault, of course. I could make more time to do things but more often than not I just take the easy option.

I think we all get into ruts like this, when everything seems so similar time passes by so quickly. They say “time flies when you’re having fun”, but I think it’s more like “time flies when you’re busy”. If you don’t have big things to look forward to, nothing to really mark the passage of time, it goes by quickly. At least, that’s been my experience over the past couple weeks. July is almost over. It passed by in a blink. I remember the first few weeks of May and June, just crawling sometimes. But now that I’m used to this routine of working 6-7 days a week, it flies on by.

So here’s to the future. When the time inevitably comes for me to be done with school and I’m put into a job, I hope time does not slip by as it often seems to in summer. The jobs I have now are not like the jobs I want to have in the future. What I have now is temporary. Temporary jobs and a temporary season. School will start again soon and perhaps after a while I will be writing an article about how busy I am and nothing is happening except schoolwork and I wish it was summer again.

Well…maybe not. All I know is if this keeps up, before I know it summer will be over and my current routine will be replaced. And let’s all hope I can come up with an idea for next week. That will mean I’m getting out of my slump.