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I’ve been stuck at home for the past 12 days, and as much as I feel extremely productive, I also feel unproductive and lazy, I feel as though I have nothing to look forward to and have nothing to strive for at the moment.

I’ve been doing the best I can to keep up and do my assignment, but it’s been a struggle. The best way I’ve been able to do them and the best advice that I can give is to keep everything in order and have it visual where you can see it and scratch it out when it has been done.

For me this past school year, I have been using a planner on and off, and at the beginning of this week, I took it out of my backpack and looked at all of my assignments that had already been posted and wrote them down. This past week’s load has been full, and so has my page on my planner. However, I feel so productive; I have been doing all my assignments, even turning them in before the due date. On the downside, while doing that I’m in bed, I’m watching Netflix, snacking on food, and taking naps after everything is done. This is extremely different from being in class. It is a different environment; it’s not a learning environment. I think of home, a place to relax, a place I am comfortable in, and a place where I can get away from the stress I have and the real world. It has been difficult taking that comfort zone to me and making it into what is supposed to be a learning environment because now that is what my home has to be, because of the unfortunate circumstances that we are in at the moment.

I wake up, do some work, and now go to bed. That was the usual occurrence before understanding that at this time in my life, I co-exist with a global pandemic. Yet, nothing much has changed, and the only change is that it’s from home. Home is where I have all the time to myself. To practice self-care, have a good sleep schedule, eat correctly, and exercise basic needs that I neglected before because now I have the time to pace myself instead of working on other people’s time. Of my generation, I find myself an average teen, the same as others. I was worried about what might come from this pandemic, worried for my friends as well as a family that has compromised immune systems. I wake up every day wondering if healthy people understand that stockpiling and buying up everything think it’s good when the older generation lives from paycheck to paycheck in this economy. Then I remember that most adults read at the level of an 8th grader. The repeated fight in the political arena between republicans and democrats over an issue that could affect millions upon millions of people being treated more as a ploy to get re-elected by the usage of the media to coerce millions to think in a specific manner, which isn’t for themselves. The repetition is the same old song, and it gets boring, so I decided against watching the news and like researching on my own time. Rather than the adults at my home who are sucked into it, they think they’re world-class scientists after being no more than slightly educated on the topic off of Facebook. Yes, Facebook. It’s at this point in my life that I realized the tables have turned. Teenagers are no longer the simple ones, but rather it’s the older generation that believes coronavirus is a government ploy meant to control the population. “Yeah, grandma, don’t believe everything on Facebook,” is a go-to now. Watching my little sister play with toys at home as nothing out of the norm for her.