My life seems to run in patterns sometimes. Or I'd like to think so. At least in this instance. I always have good summers. I like summer. It's always a good time. But in my life, I feel every third summer is special. More special. Ever since that endless summer known as childhood, ended, I feel this has been the case in my life. Don't ask my why but I feel like 2003 is when my life started. I started keeping track of things. Understanding the world a little better than just from a kid's perspective. And becoming my own person. I feel like that really started in 2003.
In the Summer of 2003, I was becoming my own person. I was becoming independent from my family and this was showcased by taking my first trip without my family when I went to Washington D.C. and New York City with my classmates from Buljan Intermediate School. That was one of the greatest week's of my life. I was on my own. And even though I was on a guided trip along with 40 other kids, I felt big. It felt good. That was the summer 50 Cent dropped "Get Rich or Die Tryin" and exploded across the radio. That was the summer that 50, Em, and Busta Rhymes killed and buried Ja Rule's career in "Hail Mary 2003". That was the summer I got my first cell phone and text messaged until there was no tomorrow. That was the summer I fell in love with movies. That was the summer that I met Jack Sparrow. That was the summer I found Nemo. That was the summer I saw our Governor take on a chick. That was the last time I ever went to a movie with my mom and dad together. I spent a lot of time with my dad that summer. I would probably say that was the best summer I ever had with my dad. I would go over there and spend weekends with him. My uncle and cousin Anthony would be there too. Anthony and I would stay up playing Final Fantasy VII on PS1, listening to the radio. That summer just...was. I would say that summer was probably the final chapter in my childhood. That fall, I entered high school. Who would ever think that I would sit here right now, getting teary eyed thinking about listening to "Magic Stick" and watching that crappy MTV Spider-Man cartoon. It sounds so stupid but that summer was amazing.
I thought that was the best summer of my life. And for a couple years, it was. That was until the summer of 2006(3 years later). I started off thinking this summer was not going to turn out well at all. I had to go to summer school. Funny, the thing that I thought would ruin my summer for sure, turned out to make it the best of my life. I had just got my license that April, so I could finally drive. I had my white 1989 Jeep Cherokee. Every morning, I would pick my best friend Stephen MacNeil up and, us being the losers we are, went to summer school together every day. Listening to Andre Nickatina, Listening to "So What" by Field Mob ft. Ciara, Listening to and Stephen hating Gym Class Heroes"BUT IT'S MY CAR AND I MAKE THE RULES!". We'd go get lunch at Carl Jr's with Juan. Go over to Matty's where we'd watch the FIFA World Cup, play FIFA World Cup for Xbox, and essentially just become overall obsessed with the World Cup. I found this little, cutie of a girl's myspace with a picture of iTunes as her background, Credence Clearwater Revival as her song, and a line in her "About Me" that read "Breakin hearts since 1990." Her name was Brittany. And I clicked "Send Friend Request". We messaged a couple times. One day at summer school, I was standing around with my friends at our lunch break and I felt a tug on the back of my shirt but when I turned around there was no one immediately around and then I noticed, off walking away from me is that girl from MySpace. Ms. Brittany. Walking away from me. She never once looked back to me. She was
that cool. I swear time stopped as I watched that girl walk away. I have no idea what my friends were talking about but I can still see her walking, to this day. That summer, I fell in love with Brittany Weis. After the shirt tug, we starting talking, we went to the movies, out to eat, drove around with no place to go. Listening to music. Talking. Talking. Talking. Talking til the sun would come up. That was the happiest summer of my life. Tim and Brittany.
And now, here we are. Starting the next "third" summer in my life. I'm not really sure how this summer will be on par with those other two but both of those summers surprised me too. So I can't wait to find out what's going to make this summer. I just hope you're there with me.
Summer is upon us!