Friday, July 26, 2024
Editorials

Post-summer blues

It’s the most depressing time of year.
Once the Shawville Fair is over, so is summer.
It’s the time of year when the nights get colder, the sun sets earlier and the TV is inundated with tired commercials showing exuberant parents sending their kids back to school.
I haven’t been in school for years and I still hate the sight of those commercials.
One of the annual routines I perform every summer is the mental checklist of things I didn’t do.
Did I spend enough time lounging around by the water? Did I get out and enjoy the warm weather enough? Did I do enough “summer” things?
Inevitably, as I get older, I check off fewer and fewer of these boxes.
Do any of us really get to “relax” as much as we’d like?

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