I think my generation gave up a lot more than other generations over lockdown because these are such important years for us, where we find change hard. That feeling hasn’t really gone away: screens were everything to me for two years and remain a much bigger part of my life now lockdown has ended than they would have been if it had never happened. I once spent three whole days watching Netflix during lockdown: I was completely obsessed. Lockdown wasn’t great though in the way I became totally dependent on screens though. He and I spent a lot of time together, making art and talking for hours. Lockdown was also nice in that I got a lot closer to my family and, in particular, my younger brother. I realised I was much more capable than I’d thought. It was also really cool to realise that all that stuff that seemed so complicated really wasn’t: it wasn’t such a big deal to make a website, advertise across different social media sites. I’d been quite lonely – I’d got to the stage where I barely talked to my friends online because we’d run out of stuff to say to each other – but when I started selling my jewellery I was having conversations with people from all over who wanted to buy what I’d made. I started making jewellery just for fun and then it occurred to me that I could start a business, sell what I’d made and give the profits to charity. Home learning was so boring – I was so over sitting in front of my computer, doing endless worksheets and online lessons. It was all because of lockdown: I would never have started thinking like this otherwise. Now I realise there’s nothing stopping me from being an entrepreneur, starting my own business or being a CEO of a big company. She had just started secondary school when lockdown beganīefore Covid, I wanted to be a singer. I don’t get excited about anything.Įva Yacobi is 14 and lives in the south of England.
I would say that before Covid, I used to be worry-free but now I don’t really care about anything. I was pretty much on my own, in front of a computer, doing home learning – which was incredibly hard because you can’t ask for help in the same way: you’re told what to do, then you log off and have to do the work on your own. I worry that Covid will come back in a worse variant or we may get another plague. It’s probably why I worry a lot about death now. My mum spent a lot of time at the hospital with him for seven months and I had to wait at home, worried every day that she would come home and tell me he’d died. I think that’s why I’ve found it hard to make new friends at secondary school. It’s also made me think about how people you think of as “for ever friends” can just drift away. It makes me sad that I won’t have any friends in my future from primary school. We tried to stay in touch online but we ran out of things to say and drifted away from each other. Then I lost those friends for good over lockdown. I didn’t have a chance to say goodbye to anyone or have a school leavers’ party. I also had the last year of primary school taken away from me. I could see them getting older over Zoom and I was scared they would die before I could visit them again.
One of the worst things about Covid was not being able to visit my grandparents in Poland. Marcel Charowski: ‘I feel old before my time’.
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