Sunlight

Sunlight

            Sunlight to teenagers is two different things. Sunlight means getting up in the morning, which none of us ever wants to do. Secondly it means getting a tan in the summer of course. Even though sunlight itself hasn’t changed, except for the number of hours that it is available throughout the year, the purpose of it changes.

Kids that would play outside from sunrise to sunset couldn’t get enough daylight. They would get so upset when it was time to come inside because all they wanted to do was play twenty four/seven. There are those few children that never want to go outside, sleep in until eleven am in the summer oly to get up and play video games or surf the net.  I don’t get that at all. As a kid sunlight is your summer and source of fun!

Every kid should be out playing in it because it is good for you; it is a source of vitamin D. Also, childhood is about having the most fun you can have because when you grow older you can’t just go outside whenever you want and play tag like when you were eight years old.

As you get to the age where you are in high school, you begin to see less and less daylight every year from freshman until senior year.  As a freshman you have that little bit of free time to ride your bike on week days or going to the park with your friends. Even sophomore year you can pretty easily make time to go outside and try to be a kid.  When during your junior and senior year you pretty much have no time at all to have “fun” out in the sunlight. As a student if you have a zero hour (early bird), school for you begins at 7:00 am. Along with that you most likely have a full schedule with multiple AP courses. So for those you are in school during most daylight hours and you also get an endless amount of homework to finish after you get out of school. Most high school students do after school sports or other school activities also out of school sports. A school sport is right after school from 3:00pm to 6:00pm so by the time you get home and showered and done with dinner it is around 7:30pm and you still have all of that AP homework and other assignments and study for that huge chapter test in your second hour. If you finish all of your homework for that night you most likely get to bed at 1:00am and you have missed all of the sunlight for that day.  This is bad for your health because then you lose sleep and become sleep deprived which increases your chances of getting sick.

Sunlight is very important for high school students because it is peaceful to even just sit outside in a lawn chair to relieve some of your stress from all of your homework. High school girls lay out in the sun to get tan for a dance.

Some people believe once the sun comes up you should get up and once it goes down you should be going to bed, that way you are sure to get plenty of sleep. I on the other hand disagree. When the sun comes up during the school year then yeah you should probably get up otherwise you will be late for your 1^st class. During the summer the sun is up really early because there are more daylight hours during this time of the year. I believe you should get up as early as possible to take advantage of the sun in the summer because you don’t have that opportunity during the school year.  You can go for a run or take your dog for a walk, just enjoy the daylight. Most of the athletic events in the summer begin later in the evening so you don’t have to work about missing your day in the sun. You can go to the beach or the pool in the summer with your friends. Just get out and have fun, take advantage of every moment you can because of having to spend all day inside during the school year. When you get older and are out of school you have to get a job and then the only time you get outside in the sunlight is on the weekends.  Enjoy the sun while you can because you never know when you won’t see another sunrise again …… (759)