2020 Was A Crazy Year

Unless you have been living under a rock over the past 12 months or so, then you will understand what I mean by the title of this article; now I am not a very old person, in fact I am in what most people consider the prime of my life. However, I have never experienced as crazy of a year as I have in 2020. Most people were completely caught off guard when this whole COVID pandemic thing started, myself included. I was still in college at the time, and I can remember back to when I first started hearing about the virus back in early 2020. I first heard about it being an issue in China and that they were watching it slowly spread to other parts of the world. I definitely thought it was going to be another H1N1 or Ebola virus type issue, where people were way too hysteric about something that did not have a huge impact on most of the world. However, I watched as COVID slowly made its way to the United States (I think the first case was in Seattle?), and before I knew it, things were shutting down one after the other. I realized it was serious when the NCAA canceled March Madness for the year, and various Universities were shutting down left and right.

I was sent home in mid March from my University, where we were forced to finish the semester online. It was such a crazy end to the year, and honestly not what I wanted for 2020 at all. But all things considered, I had a pretty good summer in 2020. I worked for the company called Shipt, where I made really good money going grocery shopping for rich people that were too scared of the virus to be seen in a Meijer - I don’t really blame them, I just didn’t really have a choice to not work and try to make money. I also got to hangout with a lot of my old highschool friends again (socially distanced of course) which was nice because a lot of us probably would have been spread out around the midwest if it had not been for COVID. So all in all, my summer wasn’t really negatively impacted by the pandemic, but it definitely made my summer look a lot different than what I was planning. 

I spent a lot of time inside my house as well, playing video games and playing guitar. Those were basically my two main hobbies over the course of the COVID summer - those and reading. I spent a lot of time ordering products online as well. Since most stores were closed down for an extended period of time, it was hard to find some stuff in stores. Especially because people were panic-buying a lot of products, some things just could only be found online. Honestly, I really get annoyed with people that begin mass purchasing certain products, because this just creates problems for everyone else. We see it happen with gas all the time, especially a couple weeks ago. 

Anyways, since I spent so much time ordering stuff online, I began to amass a large amount of packing supplies in my garage. So I had to take several trips to the recycling center to get rid of cardboard boxes, packages, and packing supplies that had accumulated on my property.