My feelings about school have changed drastically. Most days I wake up and I always think to myself “ugh I don’t feel like going to school today”. Usually I am counting down the days until the weekend and I let the week just pass by. Now, my whole perception of school is different. I realized how much fun I really have in school. I have met many new people who have become my best friends because they happened to be in one of my classes. Now, I wish I could go back and see them and joke about homework and class. I miss going to lunch and catching up with what’s going on in all my friends lives. I even miss going to school and having an interesting discussion of learning a lesson that makes me excited to learn more. There are so many memories and celebrations that school brings and I just want to experience those again. Now, when I think about school, I don’t think of the homework or the waking up early, or the occasional class that feels too long. I think of the times when I laughed too hard at a joke a classmate made, or met a new person, or the times when I was just so happy to see everyone. I took school for granted and I complained about it a lot, but I realize that I actually loved it. Every year gets more interesting and more fun and I would give up anything to have that back. Looking back, I wish that I had enjoyed every day of school instead of trying to get through it, and that’s what I will do now when we come back.
I totally agree sophie! I always complained about school and I sincerly thought that I would be so happy to do e-learning. This is not true at all. We definitely all took school for granted, especially just those social interactions that we had daily.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It really is the small things that make us happy. Its sad that it took a whole pandemic for people to realize how important the small things are. Hopefully we dont take anything for granted next year.
ReplyDeleteI also feel like I have taken things for granted; this quarantine while frustrating and unpleasant as it is, has made me realize the things that I just figured I would have forever. I just read somewhere that people are finding that they regret not living in the moment more because they assumed that there would be plenty more moments to come. I feel like a lot of people are going to come out of this quarantine as different people, I know that I will. I think that when the time comes to go back to school, no longer juniors but as seniors I think that I’ll no longer wake up in the morning and prematurely say that I’m not ready for my 9:00 am math class but instead will look forward to it. I find that for the first time in my life I am counting down the days until I can go back to school- a place that I didn’t know I enjoyed so much.
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