Angielski

Last Saturday, I played a game in which I spent many long hours as a small child. I was hoping to travel back in time to those times when life was much simpler and more beautiful. Unfortunately, despite the emotions, the game turned out to be much worse than I remembered it. I guess that is just how human memory works, it writes down things from youth as cooler than they really were. Perhaps this game was never very good and I just remember it because it accompanied me in the happy moments of my life. Although I turned off this game after a short time and probably won't come back to it for a long time, I am glad I turned it on. Nostalgia is a very nice feeling and I hope that in some time I will remember my present experiences similarly.

In the last week, my class studied online. It was the first time in six months, when the period of several months of online learning ended, and my moderately positive opinion about learning online was not maintained. In the past year I sometimes enjoyed  online lessons. Undoubtedly it has several advantages, such as the lack of getting up early, long journeys to school and greater comfort of learning. This week however I did not enjoy this form of learning. I think that such unannounced one-week breaks in normal school only create confusion and cause an accumulation of tests in the next week. Also I do not think they are very effective in limiting virus transmission, so I am not a supporter of them and hope that things will stabilize in not too distanced future.

Recently, during a school lesson, a teacher spoke out very strongly against computer games and social media. He argued that they are addictive and that they prevent teenagers from developing. This teacher made me think about it and I have to agree with him. I am myself watching as computer games become the most important thing in life for some of my colleagues, and this is worrying. Instead of systematically studying for school and developing, after returning home, they sit for hours in front of the computers. I believe that parents and the school, and perhaps the state as well, should be more involved in solving this problem. Recently, the amount of time children can spend on computer games and social media has been limited in China, and perhaps this is a direction that should be considered. I am sure that it will be more controlled in the future, because at present, probably not everyone is aware of the consequences of overusing the Internet and computer games.

Recently, while walking around Warsaw, I noticed that there were more and more police officers on streets and in subway. There were actually policemen at nearly every metro station and on every major street, and this situation is not a one-day situation. It's good that the policemen came out from behind their desks and are among the people to keep order, but I wonder where this intensification comes from. Perhaps it is related to the announcements of the minister of health about greater checks on keeping epidemic restrictions, but I do not recall that earlier during the pandemic there was such an increased activity of the police. I am curious how this affects the crime statistics. I just wonder if the policemen are in greater numbers on the streets, they do not neglect other duties that they performed when they did not.

Recently, when I was returning from school by bus, a boy about 12 was standing next to me, listening to music. Even though he had headphones, the music could be heard within a few meters. I asked him to turn the music down, but despite the fact that he did, it was still loud and disturbed people which were reading books or just were tired. I don't understand the way some people think. When I put my headphones on, I always check that they are not set so loud that it will disturb other people. This boy's behavior is becoming more common,especially in the younger generation, but it is only one part of how people in public do not pay attention to whether their behavior disturbs others. I think that if we would thought about our behavior more often and made sure that it is not annoying, the world would be a better place.

Last Saturday, during a walk, I was approached by a man who was apparently looking for a way. He asked me if I knew where the horse stud was located. My automatic reply was "unfortunately no." A few seconds later, however, I came to the conclusion that i know where it was located, turned back and showed him the direction for which he thanked me. This situation made me wonder if the fact that I answered the first time without thinking was a symbol. People today have become more individualistic and have less contact with people in the real world. Perhaps my answer was simply due to the fact that I have never been to this stud and I know where it is only by accident, but this situation, (apart from the satisfaction of helping), also gave me lesson for future to watch out for antisocial reflexes, which may occur more frequent after lockdowns.