Appreciation

 

Sometimes in life, we don’t realize how much we love and appreciate something until we’re deprived of it.

It feels like a whole other lifetime, back when nobody liked to go to school. I mean, friends, and recess, and fun stuff is one thing, but homework, and boring classes is a whole other thing entirely. And then one day… BOOM! Corona came along. No school. Vacation till Pesach. I couldn’t believe it. NO SCHOOL, for a month. Pesach came and went, but we still hadn’t gone back to school, because coronavirus had still not cleared up, and was getting worse. The board of education decided that we would start learning from home. The dreaded social distance learning. At first, that sounded cool, but pretty quickly, I began to wish for school. Actual, legit, in person school. I began to miss the things I hadn’t really appreciated before. I missed the not-quite-yummy school lunch, because what’s lunchtime without my friends to talk with? I began to miss the annoying bell, because what’s the point in ending recess if there’s no annoying song to groan to? I even began to miss coming home with loads of homework, because let’s face it, if you’re already at home, everything is homework.

Eventually, we did go back to in-person school, but with masks and restrictions. But suddenly, I appreciated everything about school, even the not so fun things.

Now that we’re back to distance learning, and everyone’s stuck in the house, and people are constantly getting sick and going into quarantine, I’m beginning to appreciate all the fine weather, and the fun to be had outside, and the bright blue sky, and the warm sun outside. I’m beginning to appreciate everything I hadn’t missed before, that covid-19 has deprived me of.

So, if I had to say there was anything good about the virus, it’s that it opened our eyes to all the good things life has to offer, and appreciate them better.