Everything's weird
Everything's weird because we're all pretending that it's not. We're trying to do life as usual, but there's nothing usual about what we are experiencing during this pandemic. I'm sitting here watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and it is surreal. I mean I'm glad they're still having it. But no one is there. The streets are empty. Everyone is singing and dancing as if everything is normal. But it's not. And underneath all the "festivities," it just feels so sad to me. It's as if we all want it to be like it once was. It's nice that they want to still have the parade, to "keep our spirits up," but it all feels really hollow to me. They just showed an overhead shot of the Brooklyn Bridge and it was eerily bereft of traffic. To think of the millions of New Yorkers who are in the habit of complaining about the traffic - how they all must yearn to have the chaos of the hustle and bustle of the traffic o