The Time I was Patient

During baseball season of last school year I was in quarantine for 18 straight days because I was deemed a close contact then the day I came back to school I was deemed one again. I did not end up getting COVID. At the time I was really mad and impatient because I just wanted to play baseball. But after about a day I realized that there was nothing I could do about it other than just being patient. Being patient was a hard for me because I really wanted to play baseball especially after the previous season got canceled. I decided all I could do was to do drills and stuff at home to try to stay in baseball mode because baseball is all about repetition. The first few days were the worse days because I couldn’t hangout with anyone or do anything so I felt like this quarantine was never going to end. Three days into my second quarantine I followed my team play a game without me. I was upset that I couldn’t help them compete and try to win the game. I luckily was only going to miss two games and then came back because we had a few get canceled because other kids were in quarantine.

When day seven came around of my ten day quarantine I quarantine I began to get really excited for things to get back to normal. I finally felt like this was about to end. I continued to work on baseball and just rest. The day finally came that I got out of quarantine. I was very happy to be back on the field and picked up where I left off. I think a big lesson that I learned from this was that being patient is a good thing especially when there is nothing to do about it. There is no sense of just being miserable and complain all the time. The way I navigated through all of this is I just sat back and waited for it to come. I realize quickly that sitting back and complaining does nothing. You just have to make the best out of what is happening. Being patient is a good thing don’t be impatient.

“Baseball & Mitt” by SteveNakatani is licensed under CC BY 2.0