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One day a long time from now I hope to have kids and when that time comes I want to be able to tell them of the year 2020. That it started with bushfires that tore through Australia, then the next thing I would remember is self-isolation and Covid-19
Hopefully by then I would have published my first book and I would tell my children about the first novel I ever finished.
'I was in high school,' I would say to them. 'I was bored in the classes that I had to have over Microsoft Teams because the world was in self-isolation due to a pandemic, the first one in about 100 years.'
I would pause and they'd ask questions and I would try to remember more clearly.
'Everyone had told us that this was a great time to do something. I would see the world outside, people were running and sometimes I would take out on my shoes, but end up never doing anything.
I got bored, bored of Netflix, bored of the constant news of Covid. So I wrote a book to distract myself from my anxiety and loneliness,' I would say this, but the young kids would want to know about whether anyone came back from the dead as Zombies and I would laugh, nod and maybe tell a made up story of a zombie apocalypse.
I'd tell them about them about the novel I wrote and about the videos we saw of the empty cities around the world. I would tell them about the hope everyone had in the middle of this crisis that the environment was able to repair itself so fast.
I have a lot of stories, real and fiction, but this experience is our story.
Hopefully by then I would have published my first book and I would tell my children about the first novel I ever finished.
'I was in high school,' I would say to them. 'I was bored in the classes that I had to have over Microsoft Teams because the world was in self-isolation due to a pandemic, the first one in about 100 years.'
I would pause and they'd ask questions and I would try to remember more clearly.
'Everyone had told us that this was a great time to do something. I would see the world outside, people were running and sometimes I would take out on my shoes, but end up never doing anything.
I got bored, bored of Netflix, bored of the constant news of Covid. So I wrote a book to distract myself from my anxiety and loneliness,' I would say this, but the young kids would want to know about whether anyone came back from the dead as Zombies and I would laugh, nod and maybe tell a made up story of a zombie apocalypse.
I'd tell them about them about the novel I wrote and about the videos we saw of the empty cities around the world. I would tell them about the hope everyone had in the middle of this crisis that the environment was able to repair itself so fast.
I have a lot of stories, real and fiction, but this experience is our story.