Ode to Another Summer

Summer has always been like my number one favorite season probably because for the first 22 years of my life I lived in a place that only fluctuated from spring to summer as far as the rest of the country is concerned. But somehow, this summer felt different-er than the last couple since I've been out here. 

I love sap. Sap sap sap. There was a phase right before college when I got super into the Nicholas Sparks books my sister brought home. I even helped borrow some for her, you know, so she can read it and stuff... I can't really rattle off the details of many of those books anymore, but the fundamental feeling Nicholas Sparks conveyed to his readers was this feeling of longing. 

But I can also see how that can be a dangerous thing. People read these books expecting people in real life to behave that way, where in reality they are comparing others to one-dimensional characters devised from some random dude. That's the way I've thought about California for a long time, just some awesome awesome place that will literally solve all my problems. When I'm done daydreaming and look at snap back to my reality, I get dissatisfied and think that all I see is THIS. Instead of "why can't my my relationship with him/her be like that?" like in Nicholas Sparks books, it's like "why can't Colorado be as cool as California?"

And it makes no sense I'm beginning to realize. Because sometimes, Colorado is pretty cool. 

Palmer Park

Garden of the Gods

Maybe my thought process has been wrong. Do I want to go back to California? Absolutely. Should I mope until that happens? Probably not. This past summer has been one of many adventures and new faces and experiences, moreso than I would say the past couple summers simply because I'm finally beginning to get used to the way things are out here. Over the course of the past two months I've probably met more people than the past two years combined. All it takes is less daydreaming about what could've been to more daydreaming about what could be. I'm embracing the post-college young adult life more.

It's so simple that I seriously wish I had a time machine so I can go back and punch myself for not thinking about it earlier: When in Colorado, do Colorado. For so dang long I was trying to do California out here, which sucked!! I don't like everything about Colorado, but then again California is not without its faults either!! 

So here's to another summer soon to be gone. 


I am seriously nervous about this whole idea of winter coming again though...