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So, it’s officially (well self-declared by me on the basis that school is out and it's a sort of a buzz) summertime. What better way to start the summer than with a trilogy of songs called summertime?
When we look around us, things start to shut down during the summer. Thinking about my own life, schools, colleges and universities close, churches have a summer timetable and even big corporations like Ford have a staff shut down. It’s the time when people want to take a break. A time to sit back and unwind.
Maybe you too might get a chance to get away for a week or two. Personally, I love going to new places and exploring, but it’s not so much the exploring which refreshes us over the summer as the idea of taking a break from the same old normal monotony and replacing it with some fun.
Over the course of the year, we become tired, not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally, drained by the monotony of our usual routines. The summer gives us a marker point in our year when we can decide to change things up for a little while. It’s a time when we can rediscover that it’s; cool to dance, rediscovering the aspects of our life which have become stale, but which ultimately are fun. It’s not that we need the money to go somewhere new and exciting, but we do need to create the time and space to pause and dream.
The song describes summer as a natural aphrodisiac. It’s not just that there might be an air of love and of happiness, but it’s also the aphrodisiac of life itself. A natural part in the year, with the opportunity for long lazy days to review where we’ve been and where we’re heading. A time to be mindful and embrace a spark of nostalgia. Allowing the season to be a transition point in our year.
So, summertime. Just a time for holidays? I think it’s more a marker in our year where we are reminded to stop just doing and return to being. A time to rest, review, realign and plan to realise in the run up to Christmas. Now I think that could be the Fresh Prince's new definition of summer madness.
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