When summer rolls around, it often brings with it an inherent pressure to take advantage of the nicer weather and longer days. Although summer break used to feel endless and without bounds when you were younger, now it feels all too short and laden with the countless constraints of adulthood. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still try to make the most of it, even though you’ll never even get close to the kind of summer Phineas and Ferb have literally every year. Here’s how:
Examine your expectations.
You’ll never have Phineas’s unsettling charisma, or Ferb’s quiet brilliance, but what you do have is two days off a week (or, one, since you dedicate the entirety of your Sundays to dreading Mondays) and a list of subpar recreational activities in your immediate area. Take advantage of it! You might not be able to put together a spur of the moment monster truck rally, but you could take a walk on a nearby nature trail and potentially see a bird that looks, like, a little different from the others.
Learn something new.
Sure, you’re not going to be building entire world-class roller coasters from scratch, or creating a functional portal to Mars, or putting out consistently, unironically good songs that honestly still hit to this day – but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something massively less impactful that’s right up your alley! Maybe try frisbee golf?
Maximize your Fridays.
There might be, according to the Phineas and Ferb universe, 104 days of summer vacation to take advantage of, but you really only have around six days at best where you’ll have free time and also be in the mood to utilize that free time to actually do something besides sleep. So it’s important to utilize the free time you have after work on Fridays in order to really get the most out of your summer. You might not have enough time or energy after work to climb the Eiffel Tower, but, hey, Bubba Gump Shrimp is doing 20% off Margaritas from 4 to 6 – so, that’s something!
So, try not to be discouraged by the fact that your summer won’t even be half as exciting, whimsical, or inventive as that of two fictional eight-year-olds, and settle for trying to work in a disappointing weekend hike once a month, at most.
