Dropped off to a new World

When the Summer Vacation began, everything around me suddenly changed. It was not the people in school anymore, it was the people at home who I will interact with. The classrooms became the rooms, the bell became the alarm clock, the school desk became my desk and many more. But what I like most about these sudden changes, which began the moment I entered my house from the last day of school, is that the teacher became me.

It was no longer the principal, the administrators, the counselors-those guys became my parents. The teacher became me. I am in control of my room, my decisions of what to learn for the day, what to do. In school I could do those things too, but it would always be limited there.

For a kid, summer vacation is his/her mark of freedom, for a parent, more expenses, but for a teenager, like me, it could mean life.

When I was in school last school year, I always know what the date is, the day, and the year(of Course), but now that I am in vacation, I often forget what day it is or the date. It feels to me that I was dropped off to a new world of the same planet. I felt that I was lost, I felt that summer vacation is not my life, and that school is. And then I remembered, summer vacation is our rest, our break. That we have to rest for a while because we can't keep on going. Just like an army who retreats from battle, an army retreating isn't an army of surrender, its an army smart to realize that retreating would give them time to plan for their next attack.