After another 80 degree and sunny day in the great city of Philadelphia, I feel its time for me to make a summer statement. Its time for me to say farewell to those winter blues and the slightly negative mindset I've adopted over the past several months. You see, I've fallen into making a common mistake way too often. The mistake I am referring to is dwelling on what you don't have instead of relishing and appreciating what you do.I've spent the majority of the past several months powering through cold weather and masters theses, always working towards a better tomorrow. Of course working hard is always good, but the more I worked in that way the less time I remembered to take to appreciate the present. Its the, 'If I can just get to the end of February, and then just to the end of the year' attitude and it really needs to go.
I was actually much better at living in the moment during my first year of graduate school (granted, I got pretty much no actual work done), and as I approach the end of my third year, I realize I have slipped a bit (though I did actually learn to be productive, yay!). Now, I am taking a good look at the current me and the old me and realizing its time to go back to some old present-moment-living habits while pulling my newly productive self forward.
So here's to a summer of appreciating what I do have, minimal dwelling on what I don't, and making the best of each day in this lovely city I live in. For example, today, although I'm inside on this lovely day because my immune system is ruthlessly attacking tree pollen invaders, I'm still relishing in my genius idea of making Crystal light lemonade ice cubes (and no, I didn't take a picture of my cubes, though I wouldn't put it past me, google pics just has everything). There's a really obvious lemons reference here but I will refrain. Happy summer to you all. I'll see you on the flip side with more relishing pics soon.
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