We all know the feeling when Christmas is over or when it’s the last months before school ends and all you want is summer. You think about how perfect summer is going to be, all of the things you’re going to do, all of the plans, the trips, etc. But when it finally hits summer, it.. doesn’t feel that way. So you start to wait for winter, then winter comes and the cycle repeats. We can all relate to this feeling at least in some way, but why?

Well, there are reasons as to why we romanticize the future. For example, romanticizing things makes them feel better than reality. When we make something in the future seem amazing and perfect, it makes us feel better. We imagine the best version of a season, and attaching the hope for happiness to a time, makes us have something to look forward to. And, overall, it makes us feel better.

“I really can relate to this. There are so many times I find myself feeling this way,” said freshman Victoria Morena.

What does this do to us? We wait for a season to make the present feel better because we just think it’s a filler. Living in the future expecting the great amazing time and living life as a build-up to a moment or time. So we just stay still while the world moves around us and we just wait.

This idea of waiting for a season or time for things to be better doesn’t just apply to summer. It will happen to us many times in the future. And it’s hard for us to avoid it. It’s a human response to not being satisfied with our current lives. But there are steps we can take to stop the cycle. The best one is simply doing the things that you want to do now. Doing things that bring you happiness and joy now instead of waiting for the perfect time is the best way to deal with this. I