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Monday, September 6, 2010

Has the Sun Really Gone Down On Summer?

I wake up one more time to the sun, shining in my window; the warm sun fills great on my skin. I sit up, and put my glasses on, and look around my room one more time. This will be the last time for a couple of months that I can do this, this being waking up to the sun. Tomorrow will be the first wake-up call of my mom and dad during the sunless hours of morning.

I get up, get dressed, and make my bed. I can smell food in the kitchen. I walk to the delicious aroma of pancakes, eggs, toast, and milk, full of energy from my amazing night. Tomorrow won’t be like that. I remember the feelings of tired mornings, where you slowly cook a frozen waffle from the freezer.

I now put in my contacts, and my vision is even better. I start to play with my family, doing many things like board games, computer games, video games, and I’m having a blast while doing so, until I remember the next day is getter closer and closer. I then tell myself to make the best of this last day, and to have fun doing so.

My last can of soup for a while puts a bummer on the day. Still, the creamy chicken noodle soup tastes pretty good! Dinner comes around, and it’s something quick and easy to get us use to being quick in the mornings. A TV dinner that you warm in the microwave turns out to be pretty quick, and we continue to watch TV for a little bit after.

I look outside, and realize that the inevitable has comes. The sun is starting to go down behind the mountains, and there was a beautiful sunset of reds, yellows, and oranges that was all over the sky! It was gorgeous and pretty, and made my day that much better.

It was at that time that I realized something. Had the sun really gone down on my summer, or was there still more days of fun with my friends at school? Was I really going to wish it was still summertime, or was I doing to make the most of what was going on at that time? Was school really going to be a problem for the next few months, or was it going to be something new and exciting?

I think only time can tell on something like this, and soon it was time for bed. The sky was dark, but it was a cloudless night, and the moon shown bright. With contacts back out, with pajamas put on, with showers done, and the lights out, I realized that there was always next summer. There is another year of opportunities that I could pursue ahead of me, and after a while, I’d get another summer. The sun may seem to be going down on summer, but really the sun would shine a new day of friends, and fun times. It was something different, something enjoyable, and I realized at that point that summer would shine again soon.