"Hello, World!"

A reflective look at the chaotic, history-making times we’re living through—questioning whether we’re shaping history or just witnessing it unfold.

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I’m just now starting to realize we're living through a very important time in history right now.

It’s strange because, most days, everything feels normal—school, hanging out with friends,

doom scrolling social media. But in the quieter moments, when I start hearing my heartbeat

in my ears—I realise how much the world is shifting around me. We grew up in the shadow

of a global pandemic that shut everything down, changed how we learned, and left behind a

generation that now carries the weight of those years in ways we don’t fully understand yet.

At the same time, wars are breaking out across the world, and even though they may feel

distant, they dominate our feeds, sparking protests, debates, and division. Politics has never

felt more unstable—leaders rise and fall, extreme views spread like wildfire, and it’s hard to

tell whether we’re moving toward progress or watching history repeat itself.

It feels like everything is happening at once. The fight for human rights is louder than ever,

with protests and movements demanding justice and change. Climate disasters keep getting

worse, and yet real action still feels frustratingly slow. AI is evolving so fast that we don’t

even know what it will mean for our futures—will it make life easier or replace everything we

thought was uniquely human? Will people’s English projects ever truly be their own

anymore? Our generation has access to more information than any before us, but that also

comes with a constant flood of anxiety. It’s overwhelming, trying to keep up with everything,

trying to figure out where we stand in a world that feels like it’s shifting under our feet. It

makes me wonder—will we look back on this time and realise we were part of something

historic? Or will we only understand its significance when it’s too late to change the course we’re on?