Message to Today’s Youth: Hug Your Summer

Growing up, we didn’t have a swimming pool in the backyard but our neighbors down the street had the most beautiful pool I had ever seen in my 10 years or so of being alive. It’s in ground, has an amoeba shape, is equipped with a hot tub and has one of those solar swimming pool covers.

Calling home tonight I learned my niece and nephew, who are staying with my parents for a few weeks this summer, have been cooling off this summer in the same pool I grew up with 30 years ago. They swim with children spawned from my childhood friends. I imagine they play the same games we did such as Marco Polo and…I really can’t think of what else we played other than cannon balling into the water.

Ah. The lazy days of summer, where have you gone? If any kids are out there reading this, embrace your youth with a giant bear hug and savor every moment because it’s true what they say, the older you get the quicker time flies.

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