thankfulness

It has been really easy for me to get down during this time. My scale of good or bad has been a bit skewed. This is mainly because not many dramatic events have been happening on my day to day schedule. Because of this, I have been trying to realize that there is both good and bad in life but we should not get to caught up in it. Taking time to be grateful right now is a big focus on mine. There are so many things that we should cherish and be thankful for that, at times, go unnoticed.

On Sunday, it was mother’ day. This holiday, and other holidays during this time, have felt a bit strange. My mother and I woke up and got breakfast from a local restaurant called raynaud’s bakery. Then we say on the wall of butterfly beach to eat it.

Usually, all of my family comes together to celebrate Mother’s Day. Since we have all been social distancing, this year we decided to all meet in the front yard of our house and stay are distance. It was so strange not being able to hug my grandparents. The whole event was a bit stressful for all of us but it was really special to just all be together safely.

This morning, I joined the MAD zoom meeting where Andre Slough explained his career. The biggest thing I learned from him is that you just have to let things go some times. And that, in an industry, you can say no. It is easy to stress over making people happy but, for sticking up for yourself, they will end up respecting you. He says, “don’t over stress yourself.” He has knowledge in so many aspects of the media industry.

Andrew’s dad was a photographer for Notional Geographic which started him in the marketing industry. During this time, he has been working even more than usual as things have switched to an online approach.

I wanted to reflect on what has been occurring in most teen’s as well as adult’s lives currently. Our main form of communication/interaction is online. This should make it easy to communicate with your friends since all it takes is a click of a button. However, to me, this has not been the case. I feel like teens are getting so comfortable behind there screens and only focussing on what betters them individually. This can lead to miscommunications and, instead of being able to work things out face to face, people are able to simply “mute” or not respond.

Although there have been so many good parts of this pandemic such as the ability to reflect and reconnect with your family, there are definitely things that I can not wait to go back to normal.