~Evan Fitzgerald, Class of 2023
Good times are always near
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Roy T. BenNett
In times of adversity just remember everything is going to be alright. It was trusting that good times were near that got me through tough times. When it felt like I had no one to talk to; when it felt like there was nothing to look forward to, I knew that in no time I’d be hanging out with friends again soon just like normal times.
No time in my life was harder than when my outgoing and talkative personality was stuck in my house for a month in March of 2020 during the outbreak of COVID-19. Bored, confused, and discouraged, I sat in my room looking and listening to my teachers try to teach us during a global pandemic that took everyone by storm and put the world on pause. Just a week prior I was enjoying the normal Fenn school sixth grade life laughing with friends, playing basketball, learning in school, and getting ready for a long awaited March break.
What started as a normal weekend and a triple night sleepover ended in me going home and not knowing what was going on. Begging my parents to let me go back out with my friends, but I was denied over and over again. My parents kept telling me “it wasn’t their rule, it was the governors,” but I couldn’t get around to believing them I thought it was just another one of their dumb rules that made no sense.And then all of a sudden I’m sitting in my room playing NBA 2k20 all day with nothing to do but talk to freinds all day over FaceTime. But I knew that everything was going to be alright in no time and that good times are just around the corner so I didn’t worry too much at all.
I learned lots of things being out of school and away from friends for so long: nonetheless, this taught me not to take advantage of good times, and that anything can be taken away at any time. Never would have I thought in just a span of a week, I wouldn’t be able to act like myself or be myself.
During adversity remember to trust the happiness.
