Love Letter To Zoom

Dearest Zoom,

From the moment I first downloaded you, there was this unexplainable feeling that swelled in my heart, and I knew right then that I needed to tell you just how much I love you. You have made my weekdays so lifeless and automated that sometimes I look right into that shining green light of yours and think to myself, “Where would I be without you?” 

I love the way you glitch every time a teacher decides to cold call on me. I love the way you uncannily freeze faces in mid-blink, or catch me just when my mouth is open. I love the way you crop the screen in the most inconvenient way when someone tries to share their window. I love the way you make my computer fan sound like a jet plane about to take off whenever I’m on a call that lasts more than 10 minutes. But most of all, I love how you create awkward silences that are mainly the result of someone forgetting to unmute. 

You’re my first thought in the morning when I roll out of bed wearing my pajama pants and the same shirt as the day before, and my last thought in the evening while having my scheduled existential crisis. I need you more and more each day because you offer me the closest thing to human interaction I get. 

You allowed me to submit my math test exactly one minute before the due date. You listened even when I was screaming at you to reconnect to the Wi-Fi while desperately trying to restart my router. No matter how hard I tried to push you away, you never let me go. And that is something I’ll never forget. 

With you in my launchpad, I have had the pleasure of living in a way that I never thought was possible. You have given me so much self-doubt, crippling camera-shyness, and greater anxiety than I could possibly imagine. I am quite sure I am the luckiest person on this Earth. So now that you are here with me for the long run, promise me that you will never ever leave, for you are the only one who completes me.

With Love,

Every Student