Sam Dean
Fitz 9th Grade English
4/24/20
When Will It End?
My Thoughts On Quarantine
“The opposite of happiness is not sadness, it’s boredom”
~Anonymous
Sometimes when I am not really doing anything at the time, I will just sit and think. Think about what’s going on in the world, when it will end, what things will be like after it does, and how long until everything in the world is back on track. There is not really a way for me to come up with those answers though, I can only imagine.
Something else that seems to cross my mind a lot is thinking about the present. As of right now I am not having a horrible quarantine experience. I get to play video games with my friends, have access to the outdoors, and also have equipment to work out. It sounds like I have all I would need, so things aren’t too bad right now. But how long will that last? As days go by it feels like things are getting slower. I’m getting tired of waking up to sit in from of my iPad to look at an hour and thirty minutes worth of zoom meetings. For some reason I think the zoom meeting classes make me more tired than a normal day at school. So I wonder, how long will it be until I get sick and tired of sitting in my house all day? I won’t know until it happens. If it happens. The options for what I can do, and the things that I have done, are beginning to get old. It’s like there is not much fresh (as in new) things going on right now that is not related to a pandemic. I think thats why I play more video games now. Partly because I am bored, but also because it gives me something to look forward to doing. Each game is a new experience and it seems like I have a lot of time on my hands to explore them. It is also something to wonder about. The game I play the most, Fortnite, seems like it has a lot of big plans coming ahead, but no one is certain when they will happen. The game has updates every once in a while which are exciting to explore. That’s why I have gotten into video games.
There is one last topic, and I know I do a lot of jumping from topic to topic, but I think that I have gotten progressively more lazy throughout this time. Right at the start of the quarantine I was very motivated to lift weights and I was excited to see how my body could change (like muscles), if I worked hard enough. As time has gone by that interest of mine has faded away, which I am disappointed about. I think I need to get that motivation back