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HIST30060: Loneliness

Title (Dublin Core)

HIST30060: Loneliness

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

The past three years have been incredibly lonely. I've included here a picture of my younger brother on his 18th birthday: a picture I find eerily reminiscent of Edward Hopper's Realist paintings from the 40s and 50s. My brother has always been the most popular person in any room, constantly surrounded by friends, a real party animal. But on his 18th, he was alone (with me and my parents) and couldn't celebrate in the way he would have liked. Since then, he has had a makeup party, but it isn't the same. He also finished high school during this period, and god I feel sorry for the classes of 2020 and 2021. It is easy to be sorry for myself, who has only experienced university through the lens of a post-COVID world, but I was fortunate enough to celebrate my 18th with my friends, finish high-school not on zoom, go to schoolies and travel on a gap year before we were prevented by the pandemic. Poor Sam didn't get any of that, and that really makes me sad.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 4, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Rose

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life
English Events
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Australia
brother
birthday
Zoom
loneliness
sadness

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Lonely
birthday
high-school
lockdown

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/14/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

11/15/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/04/2020

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This item was submitted on November 14, 2022 by Rose using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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