As summer is to approach the Northern Hemisphere as the Summer Solstice draws near , summer is bidding a quiet farewell, at least, in the country where I live in, which is situated near the equator.

I’ve always had this mentality that after June 12, summer is officially over. I remember last year, my college friends and I chose to frolic the last days of summer in Boracay, and the weather was still cooperating with us as it shone an exotic allure that captured my heart. The day we left, was the only time when the rain started pouring in Boracay - and that was the 13th of June.

I’ve alot of stuff to say goodbye to as summer is over. Goodbye to the warm sunshine that helped me get a wonderful tan, goodbye to the gorgeous beaches that filled my soul with a sense of serenity, goodbye to the wonderful summer memories that stopped time and made me linger away from reality a little longer, and goodbye to love, the warmth of the season that blessed me with endless smiles.

As I bid goodbye to shades of orange and aqua fused into a dreamy harmony, I need to travel back to the land where things are real and people grow up. Summer is my temporary neverland, and everytime summer ends, I grow up - as my birthday draws near. Perhaps this sentimental flow of thoughts are part of my birthday blues, too.

I feel the cool wind envelope my body as I have also missed it while summer lasted. I’m hearing droplets of downpours by the rain. The rain. Another friend, another foe. That’s another story.

Even if summer’s gone, it is forever etched in my mind - and summer is just there, the moment I close my eyes. I’ll just linger a little longer until the heartbreak of leaving summer is gone.