Journal #1

Today J.B. Pritzker announced that starting tomorrow, March 21 2020, we will be quarantined in our house, only allowed to leave if it is necessary. This is arguably the biggest announcement since he came out and said that schools would not be in attendance until at least April, entering a phase that many have never experienced before. This whole corona virus scare has brought a crazy reality that just doesn’t infact feel real. It has cancelled/postponed things that seem to be uncancellable such as sports seasons, music festivals, heck it is even messing with potential outcomes of political elections. Corona has essentially put the pause button on just about everything in life which is a insane power that just about anything does not possess. The quarantine away from society has also brought upon some good things like allowing me to spend more time with my family. With Water Polo, school clubs and school binding me into my schedule I find myself away from home from the hours of 6:20 am to roughly 9:00 PM. On top of that my parents are divorced so it makes the amount of time I can spend with them drastically smaller. I am also able to get more things done at home such as simple chores and create habits in my life that I could look to use in the future. Corona has been essentially a hard reset for me and although it leaves me in my house for probably a month of my life, there can be man positives drawn from in the matter of my life habits.