It's here. The month of June. The sweltering New York City heat. People flooding to beaches with coolers full of juice boxes or beer, depending on your life stage. When June hits, things change. And they should. It's good ... like a whole new world.
Everyone starts wearing less clothing. Women make sure their toes are painted, men start wearing hideous plaid shorts and toddlers wobble around in their Huggies. When outside, you sweat enough bullets to take on a gang, but you enter a building and need your ankle-length winter jacket.
June is also a popular month to make a move, as in location, apartment, etc ... not making a move on the girl you've been too shy to talk to since January (you should have made that move months ago). Walking around in NYC, you'll find chairs, desks and mattresses ... half of which are probably infested with bed bugs. People need to make a change, and why shouldn't that change require you to memorize a new zip code. Even my favorite NYC girl decided to move on the eve of June. And not just from the Upper West Side to Midtown - all the way to Michigan (she's going for med school, so it's alright). I'm guilty of the June move too. Last year, I moved in the beginning of the month. Only I moved from the Midwest to this frying pan of a city (Don't get me wrong ... I love it here, even though the summers are disgusting). And I definitely didn't move for med school, my brain doesn't think that way. It likes to make impulse decisions, like the one that lead me to move to NYC "just because something told me I needed to be here."
Could the need for making changes occur because we are now approximately halfway through the year and the next thing you know we'll be humming the Little Drummer Boy as we walk down the sidewalk? It's as if we all stop and say to ourselves, "Oh shit, I have to make the rest of this year really amazing before I have to think about what I'm going to get my family for Christmas." We all of a sudden start living life to the fullest. We want to look our best. We want to be busy and learn how to waterski and attend outdoor concerts. Everyone is happy to turn the wall calendar to June, whether you have a Playboy calendar or one with fluffy kittens on it.
Make the best of the year. If you didn't start working on your New Year's resolutions in January, start now. And, if you gave up on them by February, give it another try ... or set some new goals. For instance, if you're one of those men who wears plaid shorts, your goal could be to NOT wear them. Women, start out by making your feet pretty and your toenails painted like colorful plastic Easter eggs.
Summer is a great time to feel good about yourself and make positive changes. The season doesn't really begin until the end of June, yet it's already 90 degrees outside. I don't care about the real Summer Solstice ... 90 degree, frizzy hair inducing weather means summer in my world. So enjoy the summer, and at the same time, accomplish something more than just getting a tan (the sun causes wrinkles people, oh and skin cancer - just saying). Make June your month. I did last year, and it's worked out pretty damn well for me!
You'll only have yourself to blame when you're Pa, rum, pa, pum, pumming down the street, wishing you would have done more with 2011 ... or at least with the second half of the year.
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