Writer's statement: I wrote this letter because I wanted to see how my future self would react to the feelings I was experiencing and react to the fact that I was in a situation like this because this doesn't happen often. The letter I wrote connects to our current situation since I wrote about my feelings about living through a pandemic like this.

Dear Future Self,

I hope you are doing well. I am writing to you as a 15 year old in the middle of a pandemic. I really don’t know when this is going to come to an end. I’m confused. I’m stressed. But thankfully, I am not sick. I’m not in the hospital suffering right now and that is worth every single hour I've spent staying at home for the past couple months. To keep myself busing right now I have just been spending the majority of my time attending dance class over zoom. Which is way different from being in the studio and I really miss having the escape of being away from home. My schedule went from having thirty minutes in between when I got home from school and had to go to dance class and then getting back from dance class and having an hour before bed, to this now. The exact opposite. I have free time for the first time in so long and I am always home. I am interested to read this back one day when this is all over and possibly think to myself that I should have never been complaining about having free time. But when will this even all be over? That's the thing about this situation, there are only so many answers out there. Maybe we will look back in fifteen years and think we should have handled this completely differently. No one exactly knows what is right.

It is also very interesting to see the people around my age who got tired of staying home and are just going back to life like normal. As if we all are not tired of this and as if we all don’t want to go back to normal life. We do, trust me. But right now we are also doing what is best by listening to the government's orders.