Summer Love

23rd July 2019

To those who are no longer here, 

Welcome to your first pet peeve. This is going to be a short post because although this pisses me off, I don't have an awful lot to say on this particular pet peeve of mine.

What is it about summer that makes people think they need to be in love in order to truly enjoy it? This is just something I will never be able to understand. You can all sit there on your high horses and call me cynical if you would like, you do you, but I, for the foreseeable future, will remain baffled by it.

When summer comes, social media is flooded with loved up and happy summer couples. They go travelling together, make amazing memories, take Instagram worthy pictures together. Then, autumn arrives and just like Thanos and his snap, you never see any of these couples again. They just vanish. Summer is over and so is the love. Is that really any way to live? I think not.

Now, I know I have never had a summer fling but that doesn't mean I can't see through the filters. We live in a world so obsessed with an online persona. Yes, I know, here I am writing a blog, the only difference is, I'm not making out I'm better than I am. I know that there are things I will write, will surely anger some people, and I'm okay with that as long as I continue to be true to who I am.

I digress. Again. Summer love. A pointless endeavour. Just to clarify, I'm not talking about already established couples prior to the summer, I'm just talking about those couples who only exist when summer starts and are gone as soon as it is over.

I wouldn't mind as much if there was a steady phasing out period in the transition between summer and autumn, where the interactions between then slowly diminish. Less tagging, less mentions, you know the drill. They are always just over as fast as they started, kind of like being ghosted and that is what frustrates me to the core. Oh, just imagine spending a summer of love together and then never hearing from them again, harsh to say the least. 

I just do not see the point whatsoever. What is so wrong with just enjoying the summer surrounded by your friends who love you? I would take chilling out at the beach with my friends, eating junk food, laughing at stupid things, trash talking the boys who had done us wrong, basically what I do with my friends now, there would just be a lot more sun and a lot more sand and I would rather do that than spend the with someone I knew was only going to be around for the summer any day of the week. 

Summer Love, in my opinion is a fad, unless you are in a committed relationship, of which I am not, so, what do I know, really?

So, that is what you've missed.
Love, always 
Tiffany Jade 
Xo.