Don't Let COVID-19 Get The Best Of You

Hello beautiful people!

I think I can speak on behalf of the whole damn world when I say March has been the most horrible month of our entire lives. And we owe this to a thing, that we can't even see with our bare eyes. This very, very small virus, doesn't care who you are, if you are rich or not, or where you come from. It is the most non-bias thing that we have on Earth right now. I imagine that it's laughing at us and looking us like we are chickens with our heads cut off. Yet, there are some people out there who still think this is fake and controlled by the government (I find it very difficult to reason with this people but to each their own). I started off like many of you, not really listening to what is happening around the world or the news. I thought many times "oh this is bad, but it'll pass through soon" until recently, even before the "stay at home" order. I had a gut feeling that this was going to be bad when I decided to stay home, rather than go out for St. Patrick's day. My worries deepen when the governor made the decision to close all the non-essential jobs. That is when I got really freaked out because this meant that this was going to affect EVERYONE. You know, when something bad happens in America, we all joke around and say that we are going to move to another country...we can't even joke around because it's happening everywhere across the world. No one is safe literally.

But by saying that, it doesn't mean "every man for themselves". This is where I think people got it all wrong.This isn't an episode of Survival. This doesn't mean hoard food to last you months and don't care about others. It's quite the opposite. This time of despair means to be mindful of your actions, and care a little bit more about those around you.

I'm not going to lie, going into this I was scared of getting depressed because I know that for me to have a clear state of mind, I need to exercise and go outside whether that's to window shop, shop, eat out, go on a date, see a friend, or just do something, instead of doing nothing at home, and that was all taken away from me. Thankfully, I have found ways to keep my mind busy. But I have also let my emotions out and I feel like everyone would do better, if they would accept that yes, this is happening but I still have some control over my life.

And you DO have control over your life still. You have the option to stay/become healthier rather than eat junk. You have the option to do something you always said you would do if you had the time (ex. learn how to cook, organize your closet, de-cluttered your house, spend quality time with someone). You have the option to look at your life and actually pause to see if there's any places where you need improvement and work on that. This might be the only time, when the WHOLE WORLD is feeling like you are. But I strongly believe that we will get through this pandemic, simply because we have to. This is one hell of a wake up call but I think we needed it. We needed almost everything to be taken away from us, to realize what is truly important, and that is yourself and those around you. So don't forget to video call your people because now more then ever we need all the support we can get.

I also believe that this is Mother Nature's way of saying, "sit the fuck down, actually talk to one another by talking, and let me have a break, thanks I'll be up and running for the next thousand years shortly".

I feel immensely grateful that I still have a roof over my head, running water, funds to buy food, and my fiance in which we will be telling our kids how we survived the 2020 pandemic in our small city apartment and the only thing that we had abundance of was love.

Side note:

For those people who think that COVID-19 can't get to them... it will if you don't stay inside. For those people who don't care and are still living their best lives, I hope you don't have guilt of living your best life while making your parents, or grandparents, or people with underlying health conditions (like me!) infected in the process. I hope that when you do get infected, which you certainly will if your not practicing social distancing, you won't get be embarrassed to name all the places you visited in the last 2 weeks.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STAY AT HOME!

The longer it takes for people to comply, the longer we will have to stay at home and honey we are trying to live our best lives here so we understand, but just sit down and watch Netflix!

I'm staying at home, for myself, my fiance who still needs to work, my mom, my grandma and all my aunts and uncles.

Thank you for reading!

XO Ashley