You Call That Summer Fun? Let’s Talk About the Kind of Summer That Deserves a Soundtrack!

You Call That Summer Fun? Let’s Talk About the Kind of Summer That Deserves a Soundtrack!

Let’s start with a controversial opinion:
 Summer fun has been wildly overrated... because people keep doing it wrong.

Here’s how a typical summer goes:

  1. You make a bucket list that includes skydiving, traveling the world, learning Italian, and training for a triathlon.
  2. By July 9th, you’ve binged three shows you don’t remember watching, sunburned your left shoulder, and thought about starting a garden — but only thought about it.
  3. By August, you’re googling “is it too late to have a fun summer?” while rage-drinking iced coffee and regretting every plan you didn’t make.

But NOT THIS YEAR.

This summer, you’re going rogue.

We’re redefining summer fun — motivational style — with a mix of absurd, reflective, low-cost, high-impact activities that might just go viral and change your life.

Let’s go.

 

 

1. Host a “Main Character Energy” Day

Here’s what you do:

  • Dress up like you’re being filmed for a movie no one knows they need yet.
  • Walk through your city or town with headphones in. Bonus points for dramatically staring into the distance at nothing in particular.
  • Say “yes” to something spontaneous: a popsicle, a bookstore, a street musician performance.
  • Narrate your life in your head like you’re in a coming-of-age drama. Or better, get a friend to follow you filming TikTok-style.

Why? Because fun doesn’t start when the activity does — it starts when your attitude shifts.

Become your own plot twist.

 

 

2. Build the Dumbest Obstacle Course Ever

Requirements:

  • Pool noodles
  • Balloons
  • Cardboard boxes
  • A sense of humor

Build a backyard obstacle course that’s objectively ridiculous:

  • Crawl under a “laser maze” made of yarn.
  • Hop across pizza-shaped pool floats.
  • Toss water balloons at targets labeled “My Excuses.”

Invite your friends. Wear capes. Time yourselves like Olympic athletes.

Motivational twist: After each section, write down one personal goal — and shout it at the sky before moving on.

Fun + reflection = brain trickery at its finest.

 

 

3. Launch a Summer Passion Project (That’s Useless on Purpose)

You don’t have to monetize it. You don’t have to be good at it.

Examples:

  • Make friendship bracelets with weird phrases like “Gaslight Gatekeep Garden.”
  • Write fake Yelp reviews for local squirrels.
  • Record a motivational podcast where you dramatically whisper affirmations to your dog.

Fun shouldn’t always have an outcome. Sometimes it should just be unhinged joy.

 

 

4. Host a “Too Hot for Logic” Backyard Debate Club

Invite friends over for watermelon and war — the verbal kind.

Debate topics:

  • Is cereal soup?
  • Would you survive in a horror movie?
  • Should naps be legally protected?

Make it competitive. Make it dumb. Make it philosophical if you’re feeling spicy.

Life lesson included: Not everything needs to be serious to be meaningful.

 

 

5. Become a “Tourist” in Your Own Town

But here’s the catch — pick a theme. Commit.

Examples:

  • Cowboy Day: Dress Western. Visit a farm. Talk in an accent. End the day with cornbread and root beer.
  • 1970s Time Travelers: Only eat from diners. Only take Polaroid-style pics. Use paper maps. Speak in “groovy” slang.
  • "Lost Royalty": Wear a crown to the gas station. Order a slushie with royal confidence.

People might stare. That means you’re doing it right.

 

 

6. Have a DIY Spa Day Where the Goal Is to Look Ridiculous

No expensive facials. No cucumber water unless it’s ironic.

Try:

  • Yogurt face masks with googly eyes glued to the outside.
  • Hair rollers big enough to launch satellites.
  • Robes that don’t match. At all.
  • A meditation session where you “om” your way through every intrusive thought.

Take photos. Call it a “self-delusion celebration.” Feel 200% better afterward.

 

 

7. Schedule a “Do Absolutely Nothing” Day — But Make It Intentional

No screens. No productivity. No checking emails “just once.”

Instead:

  • Stare at the sky.
  • Eat snacks horizontally.
  • Listen to an album start to finish.
  • Watch ants.

Tell people you're busy if they call. Because you are. You’re busy being a person, not a productivity machine.

This is not laziness. It’s rebellion.

 

 

8. Create Your Own Summer Olympics (But Make It Weird)

Event ideas:

  • Fastest flip-flop launch.
  • Dramatic lawn chair reclining.
  • Ice cream cone engineering challenge (no tools allowed).
  • Best “slow-motion victory” celebration.

Invite friends. Have medals (they can be stickers). Film it for your YouTube channel. The world needs to see you dominate in “synchronized sunscreen application.”

 

 

9. Send Random Motivational Letters to Strangers

Here’s how:

  • Write out five uplifting, hilarious, or weirdly profound messages on colorful paper.
  • Stick them in library books, bathroom stalls, or grocery store aisles.

Examples:

  • “You’re doing better than you think. Probably.”
  • “If no one told you today: Your eyebrows are majestic.”
  • “Whatever you're worrying about? It's 80% imaginary. Take a nap.”

It’s fun, slightly chaotic, and might just change someone’s day.

Also? Instant karma points.

 

 

10. Host a Summer Camp for Adults (Even If It’s Just You + a Friend)

Create a mini “camp” for one weekend:

  • Schedule silly classes like “Campfire Confessions” or “Advanced S’mores Engineering.”
  • Have a talent show where nobody is allowed to actually be talented.
  • Make DIY merit badges for things like “Didn’t Check Email for 4 Hours” and “Survived Social Interaction.”

We grow up, but we never stop needing play.
 Don’t wait for permission. Be the weird camp director you needed as a kid.

 

 

11. Create a Summer Playlist That Feels Like a Movie Soundtrack — Then Live It

Pick songs that make you feel:

  • Unstoppable
  • Melancholic
  • Like you’re in a convertible in slow motion

Then schedule an entire day based on the mood of that playlist.

Let the music narrate your summer.

Pro tip: Crying in sunglasses while listening to a power ballad in July heat = elite.

 

 

12. Invent a Holiday and Celebrate It Like It’s Real

Ideas:

  • “Oops Day” – Celebrate every mistake you made this year and what you learned.
  • “Snacksgiving” – Potluck of weird snacks only.
  • “Do-Nothing-Til-3 Day” – You’re not allowed to do anything responsible until 3 p.m. Minimum pajamas.

Make decorations. Force people to participate. Call the local news if you must.

If the world can celebrate “National Donut Day,” you can have your own holiday, too.

 

 

Closing Thoughts: Fun Is an Act of Rebellion

This summer isn’t about looking cool or checking off aesthetic Pinterest goals.

It’s about:

  • Laughing too hard
  • Getting too sweaty
  • Doing things that make zero sense but 100% joy

Fun is sacred. Weird is holy. Boredom is optional.

So forget the FOMO, ignore the influencers who are “summering in Santorini,” and go create a season that is uniquely, chaotically, you.

The best summer isn’t the one with the most photos — it’s the one that leaves you feeling like you lived instead of just existed.

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