Summers seem to speed up as you get older. Doing something new is one of the few ways to make one feel long again.

Repetition compresses time in memory. A season of identical days gets filed as one blurred entry, while a season with a new job, a new place or a new skill in it leaves dozens of separate markers and feels longer afterward. Novelty is close to the only lever you have on this.

Put one genuinely new thing into this summer, something you have never done before. It does not need to be impressive, only unfamiliar.