I am sure that many students are counting down the days until summer vacation. In my case, however, I remember that I used to count how many more days I had left when it came to summer vacation.
It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy summer vacation, it was just that I didn’t want to go to school.
I think summer vacation is roughly 40 days, but the countdown to summer vacation starts from the first day you get in. 30 days is still plenty of time. 2. At the 10-day mark, my mood sank, and at the one-week mark, I couldn’t sleep at night. My head would always ache.
I finished my homework in the first three days and watched TV the rest of the time. At that time, educational TV programs were not only English conversation programs, but also programs for each grade in elementary school, such as 3rd grade science, 5th grade Japanese, and so on, which are like online classes nowadays, all day long. I spent my time watching them in a daze.
Then I would watch reruns of old cartoons from around 10:00, Laugh it up from 12:00, a wide show from around 3:00, and reruns of dramas from 4:00. I had a routine for the rest of the day.
The McDonald’s McShake commercials were a good indicator of the number of days left in the summer vacation. At the time, a special weekly McShake was sold for each of the six weeks of the entire summer vacation. It went something like, “This week it’s Muscat flavor.”
At the top of the screen, there are six different cups lined up in a row, so you can see where you are this week. Each week it shifts to the right.
It became increasingly painful to look at it, and by the last week’s flavor, I felt so empty that I could no longer even remember what flavor it was.
I just wished that the cup would go back to the left most position.
Looking back now, I think it was a waste of a summer vacation. However, I am sure that I would have spent it in the same way even if I went back again.
In fact, the way I spent my summer vacation didn’t really change when I started working. I was most energetic on Friday nights, and after that, I counted the remaining 48 hours on my fingers, which was just a minimal number of days.
Perhaps, if I were told that I had cancer or something, I would spend the rest of my life counting the remaining days in the same way.
People who used to play hard during their summer vacations without worrying about the number of days they had left would probably spend their remaining days in the same way.
From this, I believe that the way we spent our summer vacation in elementary school can be used as a reference when we have a limited number of days left in our lives.
If we think about it more broadly, it is the same thing if we consider the period between birth and death as a time limit. Whether you spend it slumbering, watching TV (games), being active, or having fun with friends, it is all the same.
In the end, I believe that when the time comes, people will spend their time in the way that is best for them, that is, in the way that is easiest for them, without overdoing it.
See you soon.
