Summer

It is the month of may and summer has well and truly arrived. As I’m typing, this widget on my pc shows the maximum temperature at 43 for today. So, from a relatively prolonged winter the heat has truly turned on.

I was wondering why all the great poets laid great emphasis on the passing of winter and the coming of summer. They said it brings great hope, happiness, change and beauty. But the question is, does that statement still hold true in today’s modern world? It does.

   Summer always brings about change in our lives, irrespective of the way. It could be us promoted to the next grade in school, it could be us not promoted to the next grade, both accompanied with a certain kind of excitement. If we pass out from school, it reflects our entering college life, which always has a certain 'feel good factor' about it. Whether it still holds after college life begins is an entirely different matter. It thus, brings about new friends, a new admission in your class in school, or you being the new admission in the college. If you are a child or even a teenager and like outdoor activities, then summer is the time of the year for you. When you are in junior school, you go to play everyday however  this want of playing has to be increasingly sacrificed in middle and senior school to accommodate a more 'important' schedule which includes tuitions for the most part of it. However whether in the first grade or twelfth grade, the coming of the summer holidays simply means you resume playing again, whether it be gully cricket or football or basketball,  they all mean only one thing called enjoyment! The satisfaction of getting your best friend out or smashing him for a six can be replaced by nothing, nothing. Even if the temperature is simmering at 48. Colleges also give over around the month of may-june and thus this time becomes the one for family vactions, daily hang outs with friends and pondering whether to do the holiday homework or not.

   The giving over of colleges implies one more major source of joy! After we pass out from school the only thing that dampens the excitement of college life is separating with your school friends, as they all travel to different parts of the country or even the world.  The coming of summer however means that they all come back home and its really nice to see the special ones after such a long time. You can hang out as you used to, do crazy stuff, (which in my case was just walking from PVR Naraina to Satya Niketan with Nidhi and Avani). There are some special things (which again in my case walking), that you just want to do with those special people and don’t want them doing the same with other people. You can sneak out at night in a friend’s car where obviously, you’ll be paying the price for fuel.

Other things also bring about a smile on people’s faces - going to India gate to have ice-cream, going on a school trip, almost anything you do gives you joy and the stress factor is minimal. This for me at least, is the best time of the year, when you can meet old friends and make new ones. Follow the "hakuna matata" motto. In summer no matter how high the heat you are always upbeat!