August 2020
Hello, friends. It's the beginning of August, and there's approximately 5 more months until 2020 ends. I'm not sure how 2021 is going to be, but I wish so much that it would be kinder to us all. I understand that 2020 has been good to some and most, but I think we can all do better without a pandemic, or a protest, or a political downfall, or drying dams. My summer break came and ended, I'll be starting my new semester next week. I didn't get to go home over break and this makes it the longest I've been away at a single time. I've managed to get by, but a tiny part of me still wonders if I could just go home now and compensate all the time that's gone by. I don't understand how some of my friends can stay far from home and only visit every other year or two. So far over the break, I've had several mental breakdowns, then when the lockdown softened, I had a physical breakdown. I lost my balance and sprained my foot. It's been a month a