zosia miller

 Some time ago, at the end of October, my parents went on a short trip. They let me and my sister stay at a flat that they weren’t letting at the moment. So for around a week, we moved into a place that was more convenient than our house in terms of getting to school.               In that short time, I visited my house once. But what was weird was that when I told my friends about my plans I didn’t say “I have to go home to grab a few things”. I used the name of a street that I’m living on. It made me realise that I’m not as attached to the building as I thought. Through that week I called “home” the place where I stayed with my sister. It showed me that my home is where my family is. This short time reviled where my priorities are.

  Our society is very technologically advanced. Phones replaced almost every additional device like a calculator, flashlight, clock or notepad. I think that there is a big difference in our response to each of these devices and their equivalents on our phones. I am mainly talking about notepads on phones and comparing them to those traditional ones. I noticed that I tend to remember things written on a piece of paper better than the ones written in notes on my phone. I often don’t remember about my planned tasks and information from lessons because I typed them down on my mobile. When I asked my friends about their thoughts they realized that it is easier for them to remember information from their notepads rather than from their phones. It may have something to do with our muscle memory. I presume that when people write something down their brains “remember” the motion and connect it to the information. 

               Because of the covid pandemic, we had to change our lives on many levels. We started to work and attend school remotely and we started wearing. Nobody expected that the world we know can just disappear.                But we all changed with it. We had to adapt in order to function properly. It wasn’t easy and a lot of people struggled with it. But eventually, in a short time, everybody was accustomed to this new reality. Then, when some part of normality was restored we all forgot about our previous struggles. I think that we don’t realise the value of certain things until we lose them. We simply take them for granted. The first example in my mind is quarantine. I am not the type of person that goes out very often but on my quarantine not being able to leave my house bothered me. We all adapt to convenient things too quickly and we don’t think that they might be temporary.