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Reading Time: 3 min Let’s just agree… This year is a wild ride! If you had told me last year this time, that we’d be wearing masks in public daily, I would…
Reading Time: 3 min The 9Lives team paid a visit to the Spice Route Destination in Paarl during the break from nationwide sobriety at the end of 2020. Supporting your favorite local…
Reading Time: 2 min There was nothing better this Christmas, than the gift of Bridgerton on Netflix. I don’t say this lightly, I’ve been reading the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn since high…
Reading Time: 3 min For months I lived as if Covid-19 didn’t exist in my life. I was so tired of staying inside, that I grabbed the first opportunity to enjoy a…
Reading Time: 3 min The 9Lives team paid a visit to the Spice Route Destination in Paarl during the break from nationwide sobriety at the end of 2020. Supporting your favorite local…
Reading Time: 3 min Just like most self care routines this year, my skin care routine was basically non-existent. Last week I Googled quotes on success (I had a moment) and came…
Reading Time: 3 min The 9Lives team paid a visit to the Spice Route Destination in Paarl during the break from nationwide sobriety at…
Reading Time: 3 min History and Wine Pairing at Muratie Wine Estate I found myself making my way to Muratie Wine Estate at the…
Reading Time: 2 min There was nothing better this Christmas, than the gift of Bridgerton on Netflix. I don’t say this lightly, I’ve been reading…
Reading Time: 3 min For months I lived as if Covid-19 didn’t exist in my life. I was so tired of staying inside, that…
![[Marié]: For months I lived as if Covid-19 didn’t exist in my life. I was so tired of staying inside, that I grabbed the first opportunity to enjoy a night out in town like it was pre-pandemic. What an expensive lesson that night out was, since I missed my best friend’s wedding.
The reality of cancelling one of the most important days in my best friend’s life knocked on my denial door. I always thought that if I got the virus, then so be it. But I never realised that life will go on while I’m in isolation and it did. I missed a wedding we had been dreaming about since we were in varsity and it brought me back to the reality of this pandemic.
Even though my symptoms weren’t severe at all, the emotional challenges that the virus poses are much worse. Yes I know, no one has to know you had been in contact or tested positive yourself, but if the whole world is keeping Covid-19 locked up in secret instead of isolation, this reality will be a reality for more weddings than we can count.
Read about the reality of the pandemic in my life on the blog. Link in bio.
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