So I’m assuming most people in the affected areas have free time now due work getting shut down…

So, how’s life?

But since the how is asked, why is life? what is life? when is life? who is life? … okay enough existential crisis…

Really, how is life?

  • For me: I’m still living with my family of origin…

    It’s so weird…

    I remember… okay I might have said this a bunch of times throught various comments but:

    I remember in 2010…

    When I first arrived in the US at 8 years old

    And it was like November or December

    And I was in Brooklyn, NY

    And there was this huge snowstorm

    the entire street where I lived in was covered in snow

    My first snowstorm ever

    That is a memory that is forever carved into my hippocampus

    The snowstorm nowadays just make me wanna be a kid again

    Its so sad that the passage of time destroys everything

    I never really appreciate childhood when I was in the moment, until it the moment has already gone

    I never thought of taking pictures to preserve the moment

    I never did journaling

    I never thought of future-me… aka present-me

    I was just there…

    And now I’m here…

    okay I sound like I’m rambling lol

    Like every time there’s a flashback scene in movies/tv especially depicting childhood, I just get this weird nostalgia thing where my brain triggers its own “flashback scene”

    so weird

    I want a fucking time machine

    I want to do the time-travel consciousness transfer thing like in Travelers (the tv show)

    I wanna relive that moment

    Forever

    Forever

    Actually idk

    I had no freedom in that moment

    Not like I really have much freedoms now either

    But I have the internet now

    I didn’t yet have internet access during the first few months in the US

    But idk why that snowstorm is like the most memorable “first impressions” of America

    Anyways, back to the present

    I’m living with family

    But now its so… awkward

    I sort of feel that nostalgia

    But still… I’ve been through so much emotional trauma

    Now we feel like strangers

    Even though we’ve known each other for two decades

    We’ve been together for two decades

    I remember… vaguely remember… sometimes there’s like a snow storm

    And this was when I was in Philly and I had my own laptop

    So I’d wake up at like 5AM and check the school district website to see if there’s a snow day

    And the I see the text in red banner.

    The text that says school is cancelled

    Like…

    The

    JOY

    So then I told my mom that and then I just chilled on the internet for the rest of the day…

    So AWESOME!

    but yea…

    oops I rambled for too long, I doubt anyone is gonna read this… xD

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      2 months ago

      Life is what you make of it. e.g., enjoy school, because if you have to go anyway then why not? Make it a good one! It’s the only one you have…