After watching a film on Netflix, I can't help but to not take advantage of every single second of my life. I recently watched a movie on Netflix that was based on a book of the same name. It's called "Before I Fall" and it is about this highschool girl who goes through a time loop where she relives the same day over and over again, after a car accident. This film has made me think twice about life and what it feels like to live. Especially watching something like this during the COVID-19 pandemic has made me want to make sure I don't take things for granted and that even being able to not go outside as much shouldn't ever be seen as a disadvantage anymore compared to having to go through a daily deja vu that one can't escape from.

So after watching this movie, especially since seeing that one scene where Samantha (the main character) loses it after she wakes up on the third day, I can't help but to be scared that this might come true one day or someone might build a time machine that can automatically make deja vu events take place. Although I am dreadfully praying for that day to not come, I am still scared if some things can still come and haunt us. Although "Before I Fall," was based around the premise of living in a time loop, I do feel that the time loop was there to haunt Samantha and remind her that she can't go on living the same way unless she fixes certain things in her life, such as bullying the outsider at her high school, Anna. So I am wondering, if we were able to change how we treat an outsider at school right before the quarantine started, would we? Because honestly, I am starting to think that the quarantine is the "time loop" that Samantha comes to dread in the film. And, we also dread this "time loop" we're in right now.

I remember seeing a Facebook post a couple of months ago about the quarantine and how it changed the person who thinks about life. This person made a list of things to be grateful for and to not take for granted in everyday life after quarantine ends for good. When I saw the scenes in the later parts of the film "Before I Fall" where Samantha tries to make things right with her sister and not ignore her as if she has done in the beginning of the film, I thought of that Facebook post. I couldn't help but think about how we would try to make things right again if given the chance. No one is perfect and maybe there is such a thing as a second chance after all. But what really matters is that we don't take the second chances for granted and that we actually try to make a keen difference when we use this second chance. I think that is the most uptaking thing I have learned from watching the time loop take place in the movie. When we're given second, third, and even fourth chances, it's best that we learn our mistake and not make the chances go to waste..