There is a lot happening in the world, there always has been. Uncertainty has surrounded us all. To many of us, since the pandemic, the world has felt very unusual and fast. For example, life has felt very off to me these past couple of weeks because I've realized several things, like I'm already out of high school and about to graduate community college and I'm 21 years old and a legal adult now? It all feels very weird. I was a month into being 15 years old when the pandemic started. At the time, I went to a private day school in person because of my disabilities. I had not yet started doing online school to start getting high school credits, although the pandemic obviously shifted that quickly and would confirm I'd be starting my high school credits online. Luckily, my private school was one of the first schools in my state to open back up for summer classes in June, with me and other high schoolers and middle schoolers going in the afternoons.
But for me, things have only recently stopped feeling normal. I think the pandemic has no doubt shifted almost everything online. If there was a global power outage, pretty much everything would be interrupted because of how much we rely on technology now. Businesses and schools would have to close, hospitals would see people who rely on technology to live pass away suddenly, and so many other things would happen, all because we rely on technology so much. But this year and last year as well, people have started getting out more and not scrolling on their phones. I was very hesitant to get a phone that I didn't want one until my 16th birthday, and I ended up getting it two months before that because it was Christmas, but I really hesitated to use it in that two-month span. Like many people, I've fallen into its addict. But school and hobbies have helped me stay away from it when I can, the only important thing my phone is used for is writing.
The state of the world, meanwhile, is very sad. Violence has become more prominent each day. We were so isolated during the pandemic, and there is more fear afterwards as a result. Earth is the only place we call home, Earth Day was recently celebrated for 2026, but with the world feeling so fast now it already feels like the day was many centuries ago. Uncertainty is everywhere, and it hits us all, often unexpectedly. How are we here? Everything feels fast, too fast. Is this really the present moment? Are we stuck at the age we were at the start of the pandemic?
This world right now needs a lot of kindness and curiosity. It has become very broken and divisive with so much going on and things often shifting too quickly. Being kind is very helpful in trying to make the world better, and curiosity on how things happened and how they can start to be changed is also crucial today. That's why I'm starting this blog, to highlight issues that are happening and how we can work to make them better. It will take a lot of time, but it's important to treat ourselves, others, and the planet as a whole with kindness.
