Fly Like A Butterfly

Better days are coming, sooner than you think. I keep telling myself that. A better day I will wake up, staring at my ceiling, thinking to myself: this is not just any day, this is going to be a post 'apocalyptic' day. I stare out the window seeing those around me out and about. Part of me ponders...should I venture out fully? Should I still stay recluse in my bubble? Or should I take that slight chance and go out fully back into the pre corona virus life? I know there will now be a new normal. I do have the right tools: mask, sanitizer, and gloves. I should be okay right? It's funny before, none of that mattered so much until now. Now we have question ourselves prior to running our everyday normal errands. But I want to conquer the day, and accomplish all what I had put on hold before! This will be a better day. This will be a day of new normal as I know it now, as we all know it.

A better day will be, a day where I can venture back out into society fully! To get my day started, I ever so enthusiastically do my morning routine, adding a little pizzazz to it. Eat a bomb breakfast made by yours truly. Then as I grab my purse, cell, and keys (life lines), I steer to my door. I open it, and stare out into a unknown world, that since prior was on lock down. I take a deep breath, and just become one with nature. I relish in the moment, as I feel the sun beaming down on my melanin. I hear the birds chirping extra loudly.

I can relish, in the fact that I can now feel free to fully venture out into my happy place: retail therapy. I guess the saying is true: you don't know what you got until it's gone. My hair, down to my toes was in need of much beautification shall we say. I can't wait to see my hair stylist, so she can work her magic in my tresses of hair. I can't wait until I go to the nail salon, and become the bougie savage girl in my head just for an hour while I indulge in a mani + pedi. Oh that feeling is coming back to me now. I can go to the local coffee shop and go inside, get my chai tea latte, and sit and become one with others (6 ft of course still) but hey at least I'm out in the free world again fully. While those retail things may seem trivial, and materialistic, it's what makes me happy. What makes most of us happy. Being able to self indulge. Sometimes you have to set that aside and look at the big picture. Better days to most would be going back to work, back to their normal. Earning a living. Making a way for themselves and others. I know these have been trying times. But in the end, hopefully sooner than later, we'll look back on them, and think how far we came through the storm. That rainbow will pop through, and better days are ahead.

It truly is nothing I take for granted. Maybe this was what we needed in a sense that it made us stay inside, cherish those we love more, and spend more time getting to re know one another again. Gave us time to learn new skills, and practice old ones. This has been by far a journey, that would be an understatement. Just glad to have been able to cherish this time with loved ones.