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These months of quarantine have been really difficult, i've miss lots of things that i used to take for granted.I think also that this time have helped me to understand how much certain things, even small ones, are actually very important for me and I have had also time to take care of myself  and to stay with my family. I know that also now that the quarantine is ended the virus is changing our life and i hope that we will return soon to our normal life.
Margherita

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These past few months have taught me a lot.
I've always complained about not having enough time, but perhaps the problem has always been not knowing how to use it.
This quarantine didn't give me time, but it taught me how to spend it.
It taught me altruism, to spend time with my family, to make better use of every moment.
It taught me not to take things for granted, like going out on Saturdays with friends, because everything could change suddenly.
It taught me to seize and not to be afraid to seize the moment, because that moment could be the only one.
It taught me to be present for those who need it.
It taught me to seek positivity in a not entirely negative period.

Alessandro

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I’ve never thought I would say it, but yes, I miss school: I don’t miss the school itself, but staying with my friends and my daily routine; also because personally I don’t like online lessons and I find them even more stressful than normal ones. During the lockdown I had a lot of time to think and I understood how important is to live day by day. One thing that helped me a lot during this long period was music, as always: unexpectedly I’m a directioner again :)
Here’s a short video I found at the beginning of the lockdown.
-Elisabetta

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When the government announced the lockdown, I was terrified. I was scared for my family, I was scared about being alone with my thoughts and if I said that the quarantine didn’t affect my mental health, you would have every right to call me a liar.
Finally, after almost two months of complete chaos, especially inside my own head, I kind of got used to staying alone, but I believe that the only thing that kept me sane through this hard time was thinking that it was a matter of time before I could see my friends and hang out with them again.
Even though it was hard, I never thought for even one second that it wasn’t worth it. Living in a household where the latest news are discussed everyday, I grew up acknowledging my privileges and I’ve always known that there are people who are always suffering more than me. In my mother’s words: “Every time you think that the quarantine is a violation of your right to freedom, think about all those people that can’t go outside everyday because they are afraid that a bomb could hit their head.” I can say that during this period I acknowledged my privileges even more and I took the time to educate myself about more important issues than me staying at home that are happening in the world (in particular, after the murder of George Floyd, I educated myself about the Black Lives Matter movement and did everything I could to support the protests).
This was a hard time for everyone and it had a huge impact on everything: on the economy, on the way people act, on the way people think. And I never thought I would say this but I miss going to school and somehow I’m even more tired now than when I did at least six hours of lessons five days a week.
I would never say that the quarantine was a waste of time, considering all the lives that it saved, but I wish that everything could go back to the way it was before as soon as possible.

Elena

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"It's just a dream," so I said long ago.  I started by saying this phrase because for me it is like a dream, or rather, a nightmare.  I didn't believe in being at home all this time without seeing anyone but only my parents.  Luckily they supported me in many things and I must be grateful to them.  It usually takes 20 days for a person to get used to a change in their life and yes, it was difficult for everyone to believe.  Despite this, Coronavirus certainly didn't stop me from studying and doing activities that I also did outside of school.  Many times we kids take everything we do for granted when instead we find ourselves with nothing like a snap of fingers.  In this quarantine I rediscovered new things, I deepened many topics, I spent more time with my family and especially with my mom.  In one way or another I have never stopped believing that sooner or later things will return as before and maybe even the expectations will be more beautiful.
Giorgia

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There are many things that have changed during this quarantine. Initially for the most of the people it was a period of fear and chaos but then it was possible to understand that this situation has brought also good things, for example the decrease of pollution. If I have to talk about my personal experience I can say that, apart from being sad for not seeing my friends, I have appreciated to spend more time with my family. I think that this was also a chance to stop and think about my future and understand the importance of things that before the quarantine we didn't care about or we just took for granted.

Giacomo

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During this period I had the 'chance' to stay alone and riflect about myself. I was able to spend more time with my family even if this meant to stay less with my friends. Thanks to this period I understood which people are going to be always by my side. I understood how much I can miss school, because there I meet all my mates and I have there my best laughs. I would have never imagined to say this but I miss school so much and I can't wait to go there again.
Lucrezia, Convitto Nazionale Canopoleno, Italy.

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Plus, they can't even drink.

I spoke to nearly a dozen high school students from all over the country and they overwhelmingly echoed the above sentiments. They were taking it in stride to varying degrees, but many were fatalistic about the future. They mourn the losses of (in order of increasing importance) prom, school groups, sports, and graduation. They hang out on video apps and social media with their friends, but they miss seeing them in person. And they miss the ritual of going to class and hanging out with people they've known for years, even if they've never been close friends.

Here's some select commentary.

"When you're in school you only think about going home," says Emma (17, Novato, California, a classmate of Zoe's), "and now that you're home, going to school is all you want to do."

Jackson (16, Greenville, South Carolina) misses other rituals. "I miss sitting down in a restaurant with my family, which we used to do every Friday night," he says. "I just didn't realize how much I'd miss 'normal life.'"

Zia (16, Denver), a junior who has yet to take any of her college entrance exams, characterizes her mental condition as "stressed" and "getting worse every day" as the crisis shows no signs of abatement.

Kam (17, New York) says he's keeping busy at home but, as a graduating senior, is "kind of freaked out about going to college after this. I'm an only child going from living with no one to living in a dorm."

These are all common sentiments. A new study polled students aged 13 to 25 about their current mood, and the top three results were "frustrated" (54 percent), "nervous" (49 percent), and "disconnected" (40 percent). Teens are anxious, they are upset, and they are nostalgic ... for February 2020.

But most of all, they are bored. God, how teens are bored. Many schools have hastily implemented online learning, but teens widely dismiss it as ineffective, at least for now. "Online schooling is mostly a joke," Zoe says, "just to say that we 'did school.' I do maybe 30 minutes of work a day now. The Zoom chats are super unproductive, just a waste of time."

Without hours and hours of daily structure, teens are left to fill virtually the entire day alone, and technology is not providing the answer. Netflix and Xbox can only get you so far.

Every teen I spoke to cited how crushingly bored they had become in just a few days. Aiden (16, Alamo, California) says the boredom is causing him to "go crazy." Jackson in South Carolina says: "It's so bad it can disrupt my sleeping. If this lasts a lot longer, everyone will be so bored. We're going to have to come up with a new way to do things."

There's a lot of denial in the mix as well, though that is probably not unique to teens. The "taking it one day at a time" metaphor was also well-cited in my conversations.

Some fine print, required by WIRED: By submitting your Covid Spring story you are agreeing to WIRED's User Agreement and Privacy Policy found at WIRED.com. All submissions become the property of WIRED, must be original and not violate the rights of any other person or entity. Submissions and any other materials, including your name or social media handle, may be published, illustrated, edited, or otherwise used in any medium.
So how do you help a teen cope? My personal experience would suggest you can't, that you are best off staying out of a teen's way, but Ryan Fedoroff, National Director of Education at Newport Academy, a mental health treatment center for teens and young adults, offers some tips. She says, "Be compassionate and truly listen to your child when they speak about their worries and the fact that they are upset with activities being canceled. It's important to validate their feelings during this time, even if they are disappointed and sad. Ask your child how you can support them through this time. It is important to not try and solve their problems when they are upset. Just show compassion, validate, and be present."

She also notes, and this is important, that kids watch adults for psychological cues. "If you are obsessively and overtly worried about coronavirus, or continuously mentioning how upset you are that their activities are canceled, your kids will likely have anxiety about it too. We all need to vent, but try to do it in a private place where your children can't hear you."

Fedoroff also suggests trying to create as much structure as possible in a teen's life: family meals, workouts, and reasonable "virtual learning time." ( Khan Academy is still an awesome online tool.) If graduation is canceled, you can have one at home on Zoom. Good news: Your kid is the valedictorian and gets to make a speech! Remember, this is an event that will define a teen's outlook for the rest of their life, a virtual 9/11 for Gen-Z. Positivity is unilaterally a good thing wherever you can find it.

Zoe does have a glimmer of optimism and hope underneath it all, as most teens do, as we all do. "I'm still hopeful that this is temporary," she says. "I'm not ready to give up the last three months of school, the last three months of being a kid. I want to prepare for the worst, but that's not me. If I think that way, I'll fall apart."

Really, she just wants a little more time, a few weeks to finish her high school career strong and officially close the book on her adolescence. More than prom, more than graduation, more than a medal in track, it's clear there's one thing she wants more than anything: the chance to say goodbye.

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Plus, they can't even drink. I spoke to nearly a dozen high school students from all over the country and they overwhelmingly echoed the above sentiments. They were taking it in stride to varying degrees, but many were fatalistic about the future. They mourn the losses of (in order of increasing importance) prom, school groups, sports, and graduation.

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If I say that all this  hasn't effected my mind, I would certainly lie. It has been a tough time and I'm sure I'm not the only one. We're living a tragedy and all we can do is stay at home and respect the rules. I felt so powerless all this time... we often forget that life is very important. I understood something that I used to ignore before COVID outbreak, which is taking the risk and do things as they happen to you, maybe they are signs of fate for you!
We should concentrate on little but important things such as being there for the ones we love in every moment they need us because life is very short and we don't notice how it flies away.
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During this quarantine I understood the importance of taking care of myself and I learnt that staying at home all day with my family can be very annoying ;). Now I know that spending time with my friends was, and still is, very important to me and I miss them so much! I underestimated the importance of going outside and live a normal and mundane life. I hope all of this will be over soon because I want to go to the beach. I'm going insane!!
Asia

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In this quarantine I learnt how important it is spend time with my family but it is also important go out and stay with friends and other people, go to school and other things that in this period we can't do. And before, maybe a lot of people didn’t unterstand how beautiful is our 'normal' life but I think that I won't underestimate all the little things that I usually do.
Letizia

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I Think these months were usefull to understand that our routine isn't obvious.
Visit our relatives, go out with friends, do sports etc. was normal but with this virus nothing is normal anymore.
I thought a lot and I realised that in our lives we haven't enought time to stay on our own, also just to watch ourselves in the mirror looking at our personality. Before this situatuation people thought just about themselves and now, an entire nation work to help as many people as possible.
In the end something positive was there:)
here you are an article about value of humanity.
carla

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In questi giorni drammatici l'umanità si trova davanti ad uno specchio che ne riflette l'immagine. Un'immagine vera, senza trucchi. Al naturale. Un'immagine che ci svela il senso della vita, riassunto nel concetto di precarietà. Non abbiamo nulla, ma siamo in tutto e per tutto precari. Tutto, infatti, ci viene dato: la vita e la morte, il bene e il male, la pace e la guerra, la gioia e il dolore, il sole e la pioggia, la terra ferma e la terra che trema. Siamo uomini e donne in cammino verso una meta che non conosciamo e non conosceremo mai.

Uomini e donne, naturalmente uguali, senza altri aggettivi. Semplicemente uomini e donne, che vivono quotidianamente la vita di tutti. Ricchi e poveri, intellettuali e ignoranti, europei ed extraeuropei. Anche dal punto di vista religioso: cristiani, ebrei, musulmani, buddhisti, taoisti, ateisti, tutti uguali nell'unico segno dell'umanità. Persone che si rispettano e si amano per vivere la stessa sorte.

Una sorte che non abbiamo chiesto. Nessuno ha chiesto di venire in questo mondo. Giunti in un mondo che non conoscevamo. Costretti. Come tutti. Prigionieri tra prigionieri. Proprio questa situazione iniziale comune dovrebbe creare tra gli uomini una famiglia di fratelli e sorelle. Purtroppo la storia, fino ad oggi, ci ha mostrato e continua a mostrarci che gli uomini si odiano, si combattono, si annientano.

La situazione mondiale del coronavirus è certamente una sventura, ma se l'esito producesse la consapevolezza e realizzazione d'un nuovo mondo, diventerebbe un miracolo. Miracolo meravigliosamente umano, perché è l'uomo e solo l'uomo che fa miracoli. La metafora del cerchio, in cui principio e fine, vita e morte, si identificano, rappresenta perfettamente l'unità dei contrari, esposta da Eraclito . Non si tratta di aspetti contrastanti, ma interdipendenti, perché l'uno implica l'altro: la vita corre verso la morte. "La stessa cosa sono il vivente e il morto" afferma Eraclito.

Nella cultura occidentale, la morte è considerata come il male per antonomasia. Il male dei mali. E per esorcizzarla si è ricorsi all'idea di immortalità. Un'idea pre-cristiana, che il Cristianesimo ha fatto propria, nel momento in cui ha accettato la dicotomia anima/corpo. Ma l'uomo è tale solo nell'unione di anima e corpo. Al momento della separazione non è più uomo. Come l'acqua non è più tale quando vengono separati i due elementi di ossigeno e idrogeno. Una trasformazione sostanziale. Senza il corpo, non ha senso parlare di gioie e dolori. Quindi non ha senso parlare di inferno o di paradiso.

"La morte conforme a natura, - ha scritto Feuerbach - la morte che è il risultato del compiuto sviluppo della vita non è un male. L'immortalità è un bisogno dell'immaginazione umana, non della natura umana". E nella sua opera più significativa, " ", accusa il cristiano di essere un egoista, perché adegua il suo comportamento morale in funzione del castigo nell'inferno o della felicità in paradiso. Il paradiso conquistato sulla terra col denaro non è che nullità, mentre la felicità del benessere per tutti gli uomini sarebbe il ritorno all'Eden. A quel paradiso, sognato da millenni. L'essenza del Cristianesimo

La ricchezza individuale è segno di inettitudine e inferiorità mentale. Ecco perché Erodoto racconta che , dopo aver dato la Costituzione agli ateniesi, intraprese un lungo viaggio per il mondo, arrivando a Sardi, dove comandava il ricchissimo Creso. Di fronte alla domanda di Creso se avesse mai incontrato l'uomo più felice di tutti, Solone risponde con un'altra domanda: "Che cos'è la felicità per gli uomini?" E risponde che nessun uomo può essere considerato felice prima della morte e che la felicità consiste nel "filosofare", cioè nel rispondere ai perché della vita. Solone

In un periodo così particolare per l'umanità, con una pandemia che tende a colpire ogni individuo in ogni parte del mondo, si pone l'interrogativo "chi e cosa siamo"? Non raggiungeremo la verità, perché non lo sapremo nemmeno con la morte. Ma sulle ceneri degli uomini che hanno dato la vita per il bene dell'umanità, da sempre ed anche in questi giorni curando malati, nascerà un mondo nuovo e uomini nuovi. Forse sono ancora valide le parole di uno scrittore tedesco: "L'umanità è il lato immortale dell'uomo mortale ʺ .

*Nell'immagine in alto 'Infinity Mirrors' dell'artista giapponese Yayoi Kusama

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Here you can find one of my articles I have written for my local newspaper. Read it using a translator because it is in Italian.
https://www.lanuovasardegna.it/tempo-libero/2020/03/30/news/quandi-tutto-sara-finito-le-lettere-dei-ragazzi-della-nuova-scuola-1.38656739