I agree with them.
I think I'm pretty cool too.
I'm doing my PhD in Linguistics.
I'm living a great life.
I'm dating the prince charming kind of guy and he's very sweet and just right for me.
But what makes me think I'm cool?
Because I took a summer off. this summer.
everyone of my friends has been talking about taking off, taking a break, leave.
but no one can really seem to do it.
I can't take a year off cus I need the TAship to support my study.
But I took a summer off.
Back in Spring, people asked me what I was going to do in summer
"Nothing"
Didn't go back home (don't take me wrong, I miss home)
Didn't work
Didn't read any academic shit
I took off.
Read (novels)
Listen (music n all sorts of natural sounds)
Go (to concerts n beautiful beaches)
Eat (healthy with lots of desserts :P)
Cook (everyday)
Watch (Olympics n movies n squirrels/chipmunks playing on the grass)
Sleep (a lot)
Be (a housewife n a sweetie n a lazyass)
Clean (our place everyday)
Talk (to strangers)
Catch up (with old friends)
Meet (new people)
Lie (on the beach n grass n everywhere!)
Get (very tan)
Embrace (sunshine n rain)
Travel (alone n with the one)
See (the sun rising and setting)
Swim (in the pool n the ocean)
Walk (everyday)
Run (in the rain)
Drink (beer)
Miss (my mum)
Take (lots of pictures)
Love (everything/everyone I love)
Do (NOTHING n whatever I want)
Enjoy (living)
I actually did a lot.
The only thing I didn't do is getting paid.
That sucks, but I have decades to come to earn money.
I'm pretty cool, am I not?
Best summer ever. Recharging.
I still feels cool back in school, cus even though academia is tiring, I like the things I'm researching. Just hope I'm doing it with the ones I love.
It reminds me of the saying: "Sometime you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't mean you would love them less. Sometimes it even makes you love them more."
I hope it's true b/c I super so want to scream out right now.
Wish you, two of you, are here with me.
Mentally I just have you. I just do.