A letter from November 20th, 2020

Letter to me, Dear me. ’ve learned a lot, I definitely went through loneliness and isolation. My friends would do hourly calls all the time so that was good. I learned that when you take away the one common activity of the friend group, you become waaaay more divided than you would think. (Friend group was like 8 people, now it’s like 4, which is cool in a way because there is more quality time and you are able to get to know each other better. I think it’s sad though because I’m very extroverted and when you take away marching band and school it’s very hard to have that feeling of belonging. It’s interesting to think that this year isn’t that much of my life at all. It was weird, but I still had my summer, the day that the stay-at-home order was lifted, I went on a 29 mile bike ride. I pushed myself and It was a great experience. Riding in a storm on vandalia trail was really cool. I’ve gotten into a really good habit of sleeping well, exercising everyday. Currently I can cycle 4 miles in 13 mins, But I hope that that will change the more I work at it. I want to be able to do consistent pushups and get better at HIIT Training. In terms of lessons, I’ve learned a lot, Time management, Diet, mental health, and limiting video games. On the whole time management thing, At the start of quarantine, It was a break from it all. I had been really stressed with Robotics and Percussion and Geometry. So I took like a 2 month break and I did nothing besides finishing up with E-learning and wasting my life away with video games and bad food. (Rightfully so, I wanted something to cope with losing everyone. Weirdly enough I stopped being able to remember people's faces, Maybe that was because I’m not that imaginative. But I think I’ve gotten better at that. Dr. Jordan Peterson has been a HUGE inspiration to me, In my freetime I “took” his personality course and I learned about human personality, Very interesting, The big five personality model. Right now as of November 2020, They don’t know what makes people orderly or industrious. Also, There is no way to genetically engineer someone's IQ, SO I hope that gets figured out. MEANING: So during my freshman year, the PHS band made it to state finals in class A, I had no idea what that meant until the following year when we didn’t make it to state. All the staff members were saying we would make it, but we got sad when BOA didn’t work out and no one motivated us and the clarinet sections had bad leadership, I still miss what it was though. But anyway to get back to meaning, Human connection and the feeling of belonging matter a lot to me now, Covid showed me how to be appreciative of what I have. Talk about character development. Evan Fritchie -Best