From my pandemic to yours
During the course of this period, in which we were all detached from our ordinary lives, our class decided to use their emotions, to tell and share their experience, without any filter, in a text that could reach the reader's heart instantly: the vlog.
We wanted to share with you a part of our totally unexpected journey, on which we embarked at the end of February 2020, with some quotes taken from the vlogs we shared in class and that we think better succeeded in capturing the general situation.
Coronavirus, in a matter of weeks completely paralyzed our country and the whole world so we decided to tell our experiences and share them with others through our emotions, our feelings, our needs in a period of our life that we had never thought we would live and that in many ways has marked our souls. Each of us found the bravery to speak and tell their own experience in the hope that their words are not in vain, full of emotions, pain, nostalgia and why not, a bit of playfulness.
Here are some quotes from our vlogs:
Agnese: I’ve realized how beautiful my life was, how lucky I was to go to school, because right now I feel like all the days are the same, as a Sunday in loop.
Sofia: Since this period started, I have become moody, I don’t know how to deal with my emotions, with my feelings. I constantly have a sensation of emptiness inside me that I am trying to fill. Now I’m trying to convince myself that I’m okay, that everything will be fine. I’m in the period where I can’t understand myself and right now my life is a giant question mark. What am I going to do when everything will be over? What are we going to talk about? It seems to me that I’m living in a dream and that this isn’t really happening.
Filippo: We understand the value of something only when we lose it
Laura: I feel trapped, trapped in my own home and sometimes that feeling drives me crazy, I can’t stand the feeling of not being able to do what you like even if you have never actually done it, and that makes the whole situation more frustrating than it already is.
Veronica: Nowadays I have realised that one of the most important things is to enjoy life and the little things it offers also we must learn how to appreciate it. Taking everything into consideration, every day’s life is special and unique, but we need something dramatic to happens to remind us of it, because “life it’s what happens to you while you are busy making other plans”
Mariasole: Throughout this quarantine I have had time to nurture a hobby that I eagerly enjoy doing which is cooking. It relaxes me and I also like to try new recipes. My sister likes cooking as well. She's such a capital one for baking cakes and last week she made an orange cake and some brownies. Moreover, during the last month, I had time to stay with my family much more than I used to. I used to stay in the boarding school so I'm not accustomed to see my parents everyday all day, but I think that I'm dealing quite well with this situation.
Vittoria: After the first few days I was wrapped in a wrapper that held me tight, in my false awareness: I knew I would soon go back to school, I would see my classmates again and my daily routine would not be broken by any force majeure. My awareness happened all at once: I looked around and I realized that I was alone, in my room, without friends, without school, without time to spend properly. I feel empty in an empty house in an empty body and while I think about the meaning of what happens to me, I would just like to spend time with myself and with the people I love most in the world.
Emilia: I'm doing a lot of new things because I know myself very well and I know that if I don't keep myself busy, I would go through a passive phase, and I would spend my days doing nothing and just getting depressed. Also, until yesterday, we were living a really Kafkaesque situation because dogs could go outside but kids couldn't; that’s the Italian approach to the situation, and the thing that scares me now is people's paranoia. I've always dreamed of leading my cat's life, but now I’ve realized that it is not what I expected. We must not forget that there is always a bright side. Humans will always be unhappy if they don't learn to take life as it comes and pretend that that was always the initial plan.
The news item chosen by Chiara was the Queen’s speech.
Finally, after listening to all the vlogs of our classmates, we felt united, in emotions that are driving our days. Our emotions were synchronized as we listened and we discovered that they have been for all this time in which we have been far from each other.
Class I^C
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