Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, oh how I miss the warmth of the sun. I'm tired of winter. I've had enough of being cold.
I want the summer back. I miss the summer like mad. I miss our crazy Niagra road trip and camping and our night scavenger hunt and swimming and blazing in a bush in the middle of the night and streaking with AJ (haha) and visiting my babies (horses) and playing techtv geek for a night and all the other crazy random adventures and most of all spending a vast majority of the time sitting around in Kate or Jamie's basement doing nothing.

I hadn't really realized how much I miss that familiarity of company.

Well anyways, the next thing I've been thinking about, in relation I suppose, is the whole being a slave to the retail world thing. I know a good few people who work, who are made miserable by what they do, or are miserable because they work so MUCH.
Thing is.. guys.. this very second.. yes, that one right there, the one that just passed.. oh look there goes another few.. those? You won't get them back again. We don't have all that long here and these are the best years of our lives.. I think we need to ask ourselves, how do we really want to be spending them? How am I going to look back on this? Sure, everyone needs the money, everyone has school to pay for, life to pay for, just an extra day, an extra shift, I need the extra money, it's worth the extra few bucks. Is it? So many people trudge through life working, trying to save up for some future that won't ever arrive. Cuz guess what guys, if you're doing it this way now, you're going to be doing this for the rest of your lives and you're never going to stop because you'll always be looking for that extra bit of money that you're saving for.. what? Retirement?
Is it worth it?
Personally, I don't think so.
Sure, things get a little tougher when you have less money to play with but isn't time more important than money?
If something makes me unhappy, IT'S NOT WORTH IT. I'm gonna do everything I can to not work full time this summer. Ultimately my happiness is what's more important to me, and if we're always looking long term.. well it's like the queen says in through the looking glass:
Jam yesterday and jam tomorrow but never jam today!

Don't forget that quote, that's a good one. I <3 Lewis Carroll.