Overall, just keep rolling with a punches, and try to remember the good times. (It was just a little hand sanitizer, but he didnt need to know that) You better be careful, I’m contagious!” And you successfully grossed him out with a wet Kleenex. For instance, do you remember when that kid made fun of you for wearing a mask to school? Saying something like, “Ooh, did you get rabies?” Well you better! You were pretty impressive for rolling with the punches, with your knockout comeback, “Yeah, I did. Our mistakes let us know what we need to improve on, while our victories let us know we are on the right track. These sorts of experiences may be embarrassing (especially if you have to get scolded by said child’s mother in front of your ski team) but they are very important for your own character growth! Just run up and smash it into their face! Remember the time you threw a snow ball at your best frenemy, and it ended up hitting a little child? If you don’t want to hit little children with snowballs in the future, you have to take precautions! If you can’t throw to save your life get closer so you don’t need so much power. I’m sending this letter to remind you of the crazy and not so crazy stuff that happened during your sophomore year, and how you can use those experiences as lessons for future mishaps. This is you as a sophomore during the intense year of 2020. You By Johanna Flaherty, sophomore at Simley High School And if Awita is still around, give her a hug for me. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes. I want you to remember the time that you felt her pain and her longing for something more than just sitting in front of the TV all day with nothing else to do. Whenever you have a situation in front of you where you have to step into someone else’s shoes and look at things from where they are standing, I want you to remember your grandmother. It’s easy to assume what other people are going through, but once you go through it, you will never think that way again. We learned what it was like to be stuck at home with nothing to do just waiting for the day when we could go out again. By going through what she went through, we stepped in her shoes. I think for one of the first times in our life we learned a valuable and very powerful tool: empathy. We stayed at home every day and distracted ourselves any way we could. While the whole world’s routines changed during quarantine, hers didn’t. And even though the world was on lockdown, she continued her life like nothing had changed. Then, you’d helped her back into bed and the next day would be the same old thing. She would wait all day for the half-hour we’d spend as a family praying the rosary together: the limited human contact she had all day. After breakfast came a seemingly endless day sitting in a chair all by herself in an empty house with nothing to do but watch TV. You’d get her up in the morning and take her to the bathroom because she couldn’t walk on her own. One day you were jumping from school to club meeting to soccer practice, and then it just stopped.īut while your life slowed down, someone’s didn’t. Remember being stuck at home because the world was on lockdown for the coronavirus? How school moved online, and we spent a lot of time washing the dishes because we just felt so bored? So that time when those coffee shops were closed? Yeah this is that time. Those times were fun! But remember that time when life slowed down? And I mean REALLY slowed down. and couldn’t go back to bed so we watched YouTube the whole morning. Jokes aside, you and I have had some pretty exciting moments: our first time driving, that time we crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, and even the day we woke up at 2 a.m. So maybe, for both of our sakes, get out of the house while you can. Not because I like coffee shops but because when I wrote this letter, they were all closed, and I had to write it while I was stuck at home. Here are the top three responses: By Emil Liden, junior at Minnetonka High SchoolĪs a forewarning, I recommend reading this letter in a public place such as a coffee shop. Week 1 prompt: Write a letter to your future self about what you learned during this time. Each week, students are asked to submit their responses, and we pick the top three. ThreeSixty’s Writing Challenge is open to all high school students throughout April 2020.
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