I felt behind.<\/p>\n
I was a very timid person even before all of this. I was not able to handle social situations that well so I would overthink everything. I wasn\u2019t funny, I wasn\u2019t cool, and I wasn\u2019t popular. People knew me and I knew them but I wasn\u2019t that important. I was worried I was going to make a bad joke. I was worried people were going to look at me weird. I thought to myself when looking at others, \u201chow is he so funny?\u201d and \u201chow is he so cool?\u201d<\/p>\n
I knew that I was missing something but I didn’t know what it was. I was trying my hardest, but no matter what I always felt behind.<\/p>\n
Then COVID hit. I realized that everyone is in the same place. I wasn’t behind anyone. In fact I felt as though I was ahead. I treated the time in quarantine as a time to better myself, to \u201ccatch up\u201d to all those who I thought were ahead of me. I wanted to return as a new and improved person, someone that no one had seen before. I wanted to enjoy life the same way my popular peers did. I worked and worked until I got what I wanted.<\/p>\n
The best part was when the 2021-2022 school year started, I was a completely different person. I was able to handle myself. I was able to make people laugh. I was able to form my own friend groups and not be the guy on the side. It\u2019s because of COVID that I got this opportunity to better myself – in the end, the world had to stop for me to get ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I felt behind. I was a very timid person even before all of this. I was not able to handle social situations that well so I would overthink everything. I wasn\u2019t funny, I wasn\u2019t cool, and I wasn\u2019t popular. People knew me and I knew them but I wasn\u2019t that important. I was worried I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leonia-high","tag-leonia-high-school"],"yoast_head":"\n