A Teenager’s Perspective: Lockdown 

A Teenager’s Perspective: Lockdown 

First things first, I want to clarify that I am not speaking for ALL teenagers. Every single person that went through lockdown and came out the other side will have different experiences, and I am not going to diminish that.  

However. I have noticed that most media outlooks, most people, seem to have forgotten that the human race is not a hive mind – specifically in relation to COVID-19, and the ensuing social isolation that the entire world suffered through for two long, long years. I have become desensitised to my generation being used as the punchline of jokes no one laughs at for my whole life, but to see that almost highlighted as a coping mechanism for the rest of the population throughout lockdown… my god, I was angry.  

So, I wrote about it. Read it and weep. 

Blue-light tinted memories. 

Screens instead of faces 

Spinning on a leather stool 

Monotony. 

Warm clothes but cold fingers 

Softly humming loud melodies 

Alive. 

Talking to no one 

Discovering worlds through other minds 

Learn. 

Avoiding updates 

Obeying rules only half understood 

Survive. 

This is going to become history. 

This is how we will be remembered. 

This won’t last forever. 

Enjoy it while it lasts. 

Staying connected to friends you no longer care about 

Meeting people in the unlikeliest of ways 

Adapt. 

5 MILLION DEAD 

LOCKDOWN EXTENDED 

We’re all in this together! 

Alone. 

Blue-light tinted memories. 

The ‘most important years of our lives’ 

Stolen along with too many souls. 

Forgotten to us, as we were to the rest of the world. 

As we always have been. 

Yet we long to remember, to relive 

The years where we learned  

Who we were  

For the first time. 

Yet still we are villains once more 

A whole generation of human beings 

Minds, creativities, power 

Degraded to stats and numbers 

Only used to show how badly we are coping. 

But the thing they forget 

Is that we are coping. 

Teenagers everywhere, from different walks of life 

We coped through monotony. 

We lived and we learn. 

We survived, and enjoyed it. 

We adapted to being alone. 

And now we will tell you 

Our version of lockdown 

With blue-light tinted memories. 

Evie Taylor, Year 10 Student