Day 14: Does It Take A Pandemic To Open Our Eyes?

HELLO EARTHLINGS.

Coming at you live from my parents back deck. (Most people have seen this advertisement by now, but it never gets old.)

DANG FLABBIT! Day 14 and I just realized that I can put the actual video into my post instead of just the link. I am not the best with the inter-web. WATCH OUT, I MAY GO WILD NOW. I don't know why this is so exciting. I feel like I'm my grandpa when I pop on the screen on a video call with him.

ANYWAY, back to painting the scene. I just finished my classes for the day, and I decided to mosey on out to the back deck as the sun is shining, and the neighbours dog is barking like a gremlin. WAIT- No, that's my dog. BILL-LEE! Anyway, It is quite nice out today, and I felt like I needed some fresh air. Also the Internet is fast, but my computer programs that I use for school, take ten years for me to make one move. After hours of updating and deleting items, no luck! So, I decided to redirect my attention to my daily post.

Maybe it's just me, but do you ever notice that when you step outside, you instantly feel refreshed, or a sense of awakening? It's like when I step outside, and the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the wind blows through the trees, it just spiritually turns on a switch. I look off into the distance dramatically as if I'm in a music video about a girl that went to the country-side to find herself. I close my eyes and feel the heat of the sun, the cool breeze of the wind dancing through my toe hairs. I feel alive. I feel like everything will be okay. It's like whatever may have happened yesterday, or earlier in the day, it's just gone. I'm fine. I don't know, mother-nature does things to my mind.

I feel like through the pandemic, mother-nature has been all of our friends, whether we had physical friends surrounding us or not. I think at least once we all turned to her in times of doubt, or uncertainty. I really think we needed her, I think we still do. Though, why is this more evident now more than ever?

I have always kind of been a home body. Most of the time I would rather be at home, one or two friends, or alone. Which has been a blessing and a curse through the multiple lock-downs we have experienced. It was like, I loved the break from feeling the need to be out there in the world, meeting new people, and doing new things. As, for once, everyone was at home, everyone had nowhere to go. However, I started to feel stuck within the walls of my rented home. Slowly, the friends that had become sisters started to move out of our home and back home with their families. As, what does one do when they run out of funds, and get let go from their jobs? They go back to the beginning.

The first lock-down, I felt so alone. It felt like the most important people in my life were leaving me. And fur-babies. My dog passed away, and months later, my grandma. Then multiple friends were distanced from me, not by death but by pandemic. The loneliness was eating me up, and as much as I had one dear friend left by my side, she was consumed naturally by her own life, her own job that still continued. So, I turned to nature. Which sometimes felt like my only home. With nothing to do, I went to a nature park by my house nearly everyday for quite sometime. One day, I spent 7 hours hiking through the many winding trails. It was a new adventure. Every time I went in, I found a new path, a new spot. Mother-nature took my hand through the beginning of this pandemic, and showed me the way.

I have heard from many other people that mother-nature took their hands too. That being able to be outside, and explore the natural part of our world was deeply important.

Life can get busy, hectic, crazy. Sometimes we get so caught up in our own worlds that we forget to look back to Mother-nature. Though, we must always remember to. For, she is good, and she helped us through difficult times.

I don't know why, but this guy always manages to crack me up. Gatis Kandis. He's "the funniest not funny comedian", as Simon said. If you care for a laugh or deadpan silence depending on your humour, press play. Though, if you're short on time skip to 2:30 because the first part is just the intro with the host of AGT Britain which isn't particularly funny.

ALSO, with this shout-out to nature, we also must protect her. Do what you can, yesterday, today, and tomorrow to give a little good back to our only home.

REDUCE

REUSE

RECYCLE

LOVE YOUR MOTHER.

Thanks for reading kids.

x

Kailee