To those of you who won’t wear a mask, I hate you

This has been boring as hell staying home for the past 3 months. I haven’t seen a single high school friend since my birthday party in January. I was supposed to spend my summer in Japan but that got cancelled. I was supposed to visit a good friend in New York for the first time but that got cancelled too. I wasn’t allowed to go to my senior awards night, my last school play (which I also missed my senior night for obvious reasons), or most importantly, my senior prom. I won’t be having a senior skip day. I won’t be having senior week. I won’t be having a senior ball. I missed out on the last of my senior nights for lacrosse, and I missed out on my last night with my friends before we go our own ways. No graduation ceremony. No party to remember with my friends and family. No closure before I left. I didn’t have a senior year of high school. I barely even got a junior year thanks to you fuckers. <br><br>I finally started getting used to staying home when we were told it was safe to go out. We finally thought that our time to socialize was coming again. That is, until you fucks decided to go out and recklessly endanger everyone around you. Because of you, our county had to shut down once again, and now I realize that I’m not going to get the college experience that everyone dreams of. You took away my senior year of high school, and now you’re taking away my freshman year of college. I’ve spent years working my ass off to get into a good college. I’ve been working since the summer before freshman year, and I’ve spent an uncountable amount of hours studying and working on projects to get my dream college. I got accepted into multiple colleges, but I’m going to a nearby state college. Why? I’m staying close to home so my parents can have someone to take care of them when they get older. I’m staying close to home to make sure my sister has someone to take her to her activities. I’m staying close to home because I don’t want to leave my family with the added financial burden of taking care of themselves and driving to see me when I’m away. I stayed close to home so I wouldn’t have to worry about money while going through the most stressful years of my life yet. <br><br>I was hoping that college would be somewhat normal. I was expecting to have to wear a mask and social distance. I was expecting to only have some of my classes online. I was expecting to stay in the dorms with no visitors, but I was also expecting to be able to walk down the hallway and see some familiar faces from high school. I was expecting to do well in college and party once in a while. I was expecting to make new friends and have them come over to my dorm to watch movies. I was expecting to learn a lot from my classes, including my acting classes. I was expecting to have a good time in college and have something to look back fondly on. You’re taking that away from me. You’re taking away something that I’ve worked my whole life for just because you believe that your right to not wear a mask is more important than my right to have a college experience. Fuck you. I fucking hate you.