Aditi Navjith

I decorated the wall by my bed. It seems simple but I’ve been putting it off so long even though I’ve been collecting photos to put on it, and I finally did it, which makes me happy because it’s right by my bed and no every night I go to sleep look at memories from when I could go out whenever I wanted… it gives me hope in a way.

I have so much time to do all the things I’ve been putting off, and in that sense I love being in lockdown. it makes me hyper-aware that I have no excuse to procrastinate. I’ve been baking, learning a new instrument, taking online classes for courses not offered at school, and learning a new language… or at least attempting to.

I was talking to a friend who I care about a lot, who also has a tendency to close himself off and isolate himself, lockdown or not. knowing this I took it upon myself to call him at least once a week and talk for at least an hour. last week he took a whole day to reply to a text just checking in, which is unusual so I ended up calling him and we talked and he told me about how he was feeling so lonely, but there’s nothing he could do about it. In the moment I got upset too, because everything he said was true, and that was a breaking point for me too. I got over it by reminding myself that this lockdown is providing me with a much-needed break from classes and everything else I do during a normal school year.