I like that you are holding space for gratitude for your mom's protectiveness whilst also reveling in your freedom as an adult to make conscious decisions about your life. This resonates with me on a much deeper level, and I have recently really learned to appreciate the dichotomy of being thankful while also a little resentful of all you 'missed". Anyway thank you for the lovely read 💕
Thank you so much! I was not always quite so skilled at balancing the two haha, but I think as I’ve gotten older I realize how grateful I am that she cares about me so much! I’m so glad it made you smile to read it bc I smiled the whole time I wrote it :)
I'm from a more sunny country and I rarely get sunburnt and it's so nice to see someone from a completely different climate talk about the sun!! Because although I love the sun, by August I'm already praying that it rains because it's too hot 😭 Even then, I cant imagine what it would be like to not see it for half of the year
This is so cool!! That’s so wild to not think of the sun as such a limited luxury! Here I feel like people tend to complain that just as it gets hot enough the rain makes it a bit chilly again! Thank you so much for sharing your perspective this is so awesome to get to learn from you!!
tbh I would like to go to the north part of Europe just to feel what your summer sun feels like 😭😭 cause ours is genuinely dangerous sometimes it seems so good to have a sun that doesn't give you a heatstroke if you stay out after 11pm
Not a redhead, just a very pale and freckly white girl who shares a lot of the same memories of floppy hats and long sleeves and greasy sunscreen. I was perhaps a little TOO rebellious in my teen and early adult years and actually sustained many a red-hot sunburn, but have I since learned? No. Every single year I still spend hours staring at the insides of my eyelids as they're flushed scarlet from the light beating down on me, and every single year I end up smelling like the same aloe-infused moisturizer for a week while I recover. Usually the time for that is the month of May, so, hooray, something to look forward to in the near future!
Anyway I just wanted to say your post made me so nostalgic for summer, specifically the summers of my childhood. I love spring, but I can't wait for all the big green leaves to return to the trees and for the cicadas to start singing their annoying one-note song. Thanks for the healthy dose of warmth this Friday <3
Yes!! The summer nostalgia always creeps up on me when the first real week of spring hits! I also have to dodge my serious sunburns quite carefully but I do love it if I can successfully dodge them! I’m so glad you felt like the air was a bit warmer as you read it bc when I wrote it I was DEEP in nostalgia-land!
I like that you are holding space for gratitude for your mom's protectiveness whilst also reveling in your freedom as an adult to make conscious decisions about your life. This resonates with me on a much deeper level, and I have recently really learned to appreciate the dichotomy of being thankful while also a little resentful of all you 'missed". Anyway thank you for the lovely read 💕
Thank you so much! I was not always quite so skilled at balancing the two haha, but I think as I’ve gotten older I realize how grateful I am that she cares about me so much! I’m so glad it made you smile to read it bc I smiled the whole time I wrote it :)
I'm from a more sunny country and I rarely get sunburnt and it's so nice to see someone from a completely different climate talk about the sun!! Because although I love the sun, by August I'm already praying that it rains because it's too hot 😭 Even then, I cant imagine what it would be like to not see it for half of the year
This is so cool!! That’s so wild to not think of the sun as such a limited luxury! Here I feel like people tend to complain that just as it gets hot enough the rain makes it a bit chilly again! Thank you so much for sharing your perspective this is so awesome to get to learn from you!!
tbh I would like to go to the north part of Europe just to feel what your summer sun feels like 😭😭 cause ours is genuinely dangerous sometimes it seems so good to have a sun that doesn't give you a heatstroke if you stay out after 11pm
I LOVE THE SUUUNNN!!! :)
Not a redhead, just a very pale and freckly white girl who shares a lot of the same memories of floppy hats and long sleeves and greasy sunscreen. I was perhaps a little TOO rebellious in my teen and early adult years and actually sustained many a red-hot sunburn, but have I since learned? No. Every single year I still spend hours staring at the insides of my eyelids as they're flushed scarlet from the light beating down on me, and every single year I end up smelling like the same aloe-infused moisturizer for a week while I recover. Usually the time for that is the month of May, so, hooray, something to look forward to in the near future!
Anyway I just wanted to say your post made me so nostalgic for summer, specifically the summers of my childhood. I love spring, but I can't wait for all the big green leaves to return to the trees and for the cicadas to start singing their annoying one-note song. Thanks for the healthy dose of warmth this Friday <3
Yes!! The summer nostalgia always creeps up on me when the first real week of spring hits! I also have to dodge my serious sunburns quite carefully but I do love it if I can successfully dodge them! I’m so glad you felt like the air was a bit warmer as you read it bc when I wrote it I was DEEP in nostalgia-land!