The Fear of Missing Out

I wrote my essay about what it feels like to grow as a person in the pandemic. The prompt was to write about how it has affected my identity. This was a hard thing to write about for me because I think that as a teenager my identity is already changing a lot. I didn’t know how to differentiate what about the pandemic has changed about me. I decided I wanted to talk about that because I think that is a real feeling. I also wanted to write about how it feels like teenagers are missing out. I wrote about this because it is a scary thing to realize this is the time where you are supposed to be making memories but your not. I think we have been told that this is the time for having fun and learning about yourself for a long time but now that we are teenagers its not happening. This is something I have noticed about myself and I have heard from my friends. I think its is shaping our identity a lot so I wanted to write about it.