Editorial: Savor the sweet taste of summertime

By the North Star Editorial staff

With the year coming to a close and only 10 days of school left after today, many of us have summer on the brain.

At the end of every summer, whether you are going to college, coming back to North or hitting the work force, you will undoubtedly be asked by the boss, teacher or professor ‘What did you do over your summer?’ Be sure to have something worthwhile to tell because so many don’t.

Be proud of something you have done, move people, refresh people, make all the difference.

Don’t be the kid that spends hours on the couch with the chips and soda watching TV, wasting their summer away.

For some this is their last, for others there are three left, but three is still a small number. Do something that you will never forget.
Remember.

Many summers go by forgotten. Be able to reflect on your last three months as an accomplishment, as a growing experience, be able to say that you never wasted a single minute. This is a time of decisions, a time of living life. Don’t let the couch consume you.

Live.

Volunteer, create art, discover, travel, impact lives, take walks, build a tree house, drink from the hose, eat the last piece of cake because no one does, and enjoy it, remember it, cherish it.

Impact.

Be able to make a difference in someone’s life by your actions, your experiences, and your love for life itself.

Share.

When your boss, teacher or professor asks at the beginning of August, be able to tell a moving story and be proud of what you spent your summer doing.

Take time to enjoy the small things, to appreciate the big things and to let go of the hard things. We are all storytellers; summer is a story many fail to tell.