Yesterday I went on an everyday walk down the strip like we do a few days a week. It started out as a typical walk. Go down elevator to lobby, take a right, four doors and your outside. Once the fresh air hit my face and my shoes hit the sidewalk I personally started feeling like I was doing something wrong. After being quarantined in the house for the last few days and watching social media (btw that’s a terrible idea!!! Even my mom said do lol).....but hey they never said you can’t go outside and get fresh air right? The walk started feeling weird as we passed Sahara (old SLS). It was empty. It was quiet. It was lifeless! The sidewalks that once were filled with hundreds of people constantly playing bumper cars just to get to their next destination, certain sections of the street had there distinct piss/sewage/garbage smell, bums asking for a hand out or scaring you while waking up from their nap, etc. It wasn’t there. You could literally walk down the walk way with your arms out at full span and not touch anyone. If you’ve ever been to Vegas you know that is impossible on a typical day! Sometimes your lucky to make it out alive of some of those crowds! Elevators, escalators, sidewalks all out of order. Streets that used to be covered in naked woman cards, plastic bags, pieces of glass now are clean and washed free of all the sins it used to be layered with. As we ventured farther casino doors were boarded shut, bus routes detoured, no timeshare marketers! No one playing the saxophone, no one doing magic tricks, our favorite faces at different places. GONE! As you start to replay your memories in your mind of all the things you remember these streets to be filled with, it starts to feel like a start of a bad scary movie. To all of you who used to be part of this walk that are at home because you are “nonessential” doing your part without a job you are appreciated! We will get through this.
We have to believe that this is our break to come out of this better, stronger, wealthier! There’s no way something like this doesn’t have a positive outcome. We have to take this time to self care ourselves to be a better person for when this is over. You gotta ask yourself what am I gonna do with this time? I truly believe this is what most of us have been asking for but didn’t know it and we definitely didn’t expect it on this magnitude. A reset of everything. Best defined as someone hit the world’s “reset button!” Work, life, relationships, mind, etc! Don’t act like we don’t complain about our job, life, responsibilities, socializing, etc. We now are being forced to come together but yet be physically separated to end a pandemic. Seems like a weird concept right? In this time please ask yourself what can I do to better myself? What can I do to be a better person in the world? What can I do to start this change?? During this time I’ve done face, lip, & hair masks, whitened my teeth, attempted to self tan, wore my waist trainer, read, cleaned, cleaned some more, organized my closet, put work into my blog site, tried to love and connect with my man a little more, did some other random non important things, and played cards...... we are bored!!! It’s nice to be on island time. No where to go at any specific time, however it was sooooooo nice to get out of the house for the walk. I literally didn’t even know what day of the week it was till someone told me!! I have to get my self amped up for the little things now like an essentials run to the grocery store or a nice walk from the bedroom to the living room. After all this I will not take my freedom to go out and about as I please for granted. I will not get annoyed at the amount of people and traffic in this city. I will not take my health or others for granted. Also I want to put a huge shout out and thank you again to all the “essential” workers!! Without you I don’t know what we’d do! You are putting yourselves at risk for all of us so we can stay home. Just like all the quotes around the internet said “your ancestors went to war for you.....” you "the essentials" went to war for us! It doesn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated from me (my mom is a nurse and my sister in law is a medical assistant)!! I sure hope it doesn’t go unnoticed by the higher ups when this is all said and done! If we all do our part hopefully this can be over soon! We won’t go back go normal... we will start a new change!! I pray for a better tomorrow!!!
Always remember..."The best is yet to come!"
xoxoxo
Rachel
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