My daugher ended her freshman year at NYU-Tisch on May 9 and has been finding ways to keep herself busy ever since. She's working at a video production company this summer and writing her next screenplay. My son is taking his last exam as I'm writing this. He'll be a high school junior next year. I envy them that "end of the school year" feeling. That feeling that at least for the next 3 months your life is on vacation to pursue the things you love, whether that's writing your next movie script or playing X-Box for hours on end and texting your girlfriend 24/7 with no one to tell you you need to go to sleep.
I, of course, had my turn at my generation's version of all of that, so my envy may be nostalgia too. Now, mostly my summers look almost identical to the other 3 seasons, though the view from the window is greener and this year I am taking my vacations with "the kids."
But I did like that feeling of being a pony let free into a very green field of very fresh grass for 3 summer months.
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