By: Danny Tow, Co Editor-in-Chief<\/p>\n
We\u2019re living in an unprecedented time. No one currently alive (outside of the few 115-year-olds here and there) was around the last time a pandemic such as this struck the world, and even so, modern medicine and technology have drastically changed the response from how the Spanish Flu was dealt with in 1919.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s difficult to be selfish during a time like this, especially when so many people worldwide are fighting for their lives. And yet, it\u2019s hard to not think about everything that I, a high school senior, am missing: Senior Prom, Graduation, the final months spent with my friends before we head our separate ways for college. I won\u2019t get to attend events I had eagerly waited months for. I won\u2019t see a glorious senior prank pulled. I\u2019m (likely) missing my last day of high school, my last sports season, and possibly even my last summer of adolescence.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, even as I list everything I\u2019ve lost this semester, there have been a few bright sides to what\u2019s happening. My entire family is together at home again, something that hasn\u2019t happened since my older brothers went to college. I\u2019ve been able to focus on my health much more, and taken steps to improve that part of myself. I\u2019ve found a new appreciation for everything my parents have given me, and made sure to thank them for it. I\u2019ve even managed to improve my skills in video games in the obviously limited time I’ve had at home to play.<\/span><\/p>\n While nothing will ever be able to replace the lost memories of this spring, I have realized that there\u2019s very little I can do about it. And that\u2019s OK. All I can do is follow the guidelines of health officials who know much more about what\u2019s going on than me: stay at home, limit contact with others, keep clean, and wait. Wait until nature runs its course and this virus – as have all others before it – dies out, and we can return to normal, or whatever normal will be when this is done.<\/span><\/p>\n To the Class of 2020, and all others who have lost something because of the coronavirus, I ask you to remember this: Though nothing can make up for the loss of whatever you had planned, life goes on. You will still find happiness, sadness, and everything in between in your life, even though you missed out on fun events this year. We\u2019re all going through this together, in our own separate ways. Everyone comes with their own origin story, and this is simply part of ours.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Danny Tow, Co Editor-in-Chief We\u2019re living in an unprecedented time. No one currently alive (outside of the few 115-year-olds here and there) was around the last time a pandemic such as this struck the world, and even so, modern medicine and technology have drastically changed the response from how the Spanish Flu was dealt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SENIORS2020SMALL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}