Instant purchases, quick fixes, and consumer impulses serve as distractions from real personal transformation. Genuine change requires sustained effort, reflection, and habits that cannot be solved by a single 'buy now' click. The return of schools brings a partial restoration of routine and, often, a late-summer heatwave alongside renewed traffic congestion. Commuting frustration offers small compensations: time to listen to podcasts and a private release of anger while enclosed in a car. September commonly fosters misplaced optimism about self-improvement and fresh starts, but durable progress depends on persistent work rather than short-term rituals or retail-driven solutions.
The things that you think will fix you are just distractions, because real change is much harder than an Amazon 'buy now' button. Schools are back and with them will return (I hope) some semblance of sanity and normality. Along with the semblance of sanity and normality, there's also the customary 'school's back' heatwave that we can look forward to.
Now, I do acknowledge that it's not all good news. The sh**emare traffic is also coming for us once more, but a small price to pay surely? Traffic has its upsides: sitting in traffic is an excellent time to listen to your podcast and for medicinal rage-venting by screaming at other drivers from inside your car. And listen, these aren't the only gifts September brings - September is also the month of deluded optimism.
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