Are you self-centered???

Okay, summer is here, guys.  If you haven't finished school, it's time.  Seriously!  What are you dragging it out for???  Some people intentionally go through the summer and I raise my eyebrow at them, like, really?!?!?!?!?!?!  Let's get real - learning is great, should be done all the time, but you need to take a break from the books and learn other things.  Be more social!  I know kids (and I can turn my head, look out into the hall, and stare at one right now) who get even less social in the summer.  They spend all their recreational time on their computer or on their own.  And then come supper time, they're pretty cranky about interaction with other humanoids.

Now, granted, their precious hobbies are computer bound.  One sibling treats writing like she has a right to do nothing else, and the other designs Lego ships with a design program and makes Lego videos.  But let's get something straight - I love to write.  I love to blog.  I love to find new Sinatra, O'Connor, and Grayson videos on YouTube, and I love to just surf the web (for what, sometimes I don't know).  But it is summer, and it is totally lame to spend your whole day doing what you pretty much have to do in the winter.

So, my dear friends, figure out if you're one of those dull, self-centered people spending a perfectly good day inside and find a new hobby that makes you go outdoors.  You could pull out an old bike, put up a badminton set, find the archery set you gave up on, become the family gardener, or meditate (which Vulcans tell me is best done in solitude).  (Remember, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.  Don't take anything you like to do too seriously.  Life is not about you.)

I'm prejudiced, I know.  And I, like many others, scorn philosophies of living that are not my own, but given the effects this dull lifestyle is having on those around me, I'd guess that I've gotten something here.

Another goal for my summer?  Spend a part of every day going out of my way to do something with another person.  Right now, I'm doing it for the easiest person in my family, but I hope that later in the summer, I'll be able to get even the gruffest of family members to spend some time with me.

I apologize if this post is rude or rubs you the wrong way, but I'm in a very good and confident mood.  When I'm in this summery mood, I'm not shy about saying what I know is true about life, even though everyone I've already told vehemently disagrees with me.  What do you think?

~Meggy