Vivienne's Views

Quarantine and the pandemic is something I never want to remember, yet has been a blessing in disguise. I wouldn’t call myself depressed, but rather, consider myself very sad last year. At home I was alone, my parents both worked their typical 10-6, my sister was up at school, and my dogs mopped around in our lifeless home. School was even worse- some of my friends were hurting my feelings, people started rumors, and I clearly lacked respect from some of my peers.  Being in a pandemic taught me to only keep a tight circle for not only safety, but to remain around the people who I trust and happy around. After all that has been said and done, being the bigger person is just leaving people alone. Looking back, it was extremely exhausting trying to get people to like me or convince them to stick around when I have always been myself. I’ve just learned to drop things, why make everyone like me when I don’t like everyone back. Although I am a grudge holder, I’ve worked on being forgiv...

  As a kid, my view of high school was very different from how it actually is now. In the earlier 2000’s high school looked fun to me. In Disney Channel original movies, the high schoolers would have insanely long passing times, lockers, crazy neck to neck football/basketball games, “the popular” table, a generic chess club, open house parties, detentions thrown out freely, non existent school work load, and school dances that actually looked enjoyable.  In High School Musical Three, there's a music number where everyone is getting ready for prom and it was just insanely fascinating (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9K3sBUwQzU). No matter what movie, the prom looked like the best part. Everyone had a date, and their dresses were big and colorful. I was so excited for my day to come to wear a long dress like that. But I still haven’t. And I never got that date either. Prom got cancelled this year but some moms (including mine) got together to make masked up parent sponsored pr...