Hey there, it's Ronnie coming at you.
We're all going through some difficult times right now with our situations.
We have to be careful.
Please help each other out, love each other.
Do what you can to help people.
I want to help you.
I want to help you through these difficult times and give you some positive energy to
help you, some suggestions, some ideas about doing fun things.
So, how's the quarantine changed your life or society?
Of course, there's the bad, but let's look at some things.
Working at home.
So, a lot of people have started to work from home.
If you have a job, perfect.
Thank you!
We're very lucky to have jobs.
People have lost many jobs and wow.
Crazy.
But if you are lucky enough to work from home, you're going to have some advantages.
You get to wake up later!
So, before, you had to wake up early, get the coffee in you.
Drink your coffee or your tea.
You had to take a shower, you had to change into your nice work clothes and you had to
commute, okay?
Commute means your driving or your transportation time from your house to your job.
Hey, if you work from home, there's no commute.
You have to get from your bed to your computer desk.
What, two seconds, maybe five?
Maybe two minutes if you've got to go down some stairs.
So, you wake up later, there's no commute to the office - yes!
Because of all this, there also seems to be less traffic in the cities.
And interestingly enough, in some places, there's even less pollution because we're
driving less cars.
That's good.
Let's save the earth.
What about offices, what about businesses?
So, businesses, of course, are losing money because they can't open.
But if you work from home and you're a business owner, you don't actually have to rent an
office space.
You don't have to pay people to buy computers for everyone.
They have their own computer.
You can potentially save a lot of money for your business if you play your cards right,
that is.
Hey, guess what?
You can do new things.
You can start something new that you've never done before, but you've always wanted to.
Let's say that you're like, "Wow, you know.
I was working, my commute was two hours, and I never had time to bird watch."
Well, guess what?
Now you have the time to bird watch, you can do it.
You can't go shopping, okay?
Ronnie's allergic to malls, okay?
I hate malls, I hate shopping.
And for me, I'm just like "Yes!
Nobody can go shopping."
So hey, are you saving money?
Look at you.
You can't go shopping, you can't buy things you probably don't need, so you can save money.
You can learn something.
You can take a new course; you can get a new career.
You can make yourself a better person somehow.
You can take yoga; you can do lots of amazing things because you have more time.
If you want to learn English, you can watch www.engvid.com . You can read a book.
You can do so many different things.
You can take lessons with me!
You can also try something that you've never done before.
Maybe like, do you know what?
I really, really want to try to be an acrobat.
So, you can go online, you can order all the props that you want to be an acrobat and try
that out.
I didn't try that.
I don't think being an acrobat is something that I would personally like to do.
I wouldn't mind maybe learning how to find medicinal herbs or something, but acrobat,
to me, not interesting.
But everyone's different.
What do you want to do?
What's something that you're like, "Oh wow, I want to do this."
Guess what, do it, try it!
You never know, you might like it.
The thing that I really, really, really, really, really think is amazing, and I've seen this,
is people are actually maybe beginning to respect other humans.
And this, to me, wow.
It's just so much amazing energy.
They call it physical distancing, but I call it personal space, because usually when you
stand in the lineup - and I do this as a human experiment - if I take one step forward, the
person behind me takes one step forward.
I don't like people around me.
It annoys me.
People are - I can hear them breathing, I'm just like, "Get away from me."
So, I have a problem with people standing very close to me.
This is even since I was 16 years old.
I just don't like having my personal space invaded.
Hey, we have a personal distancing thing now.
Please respect it.
Hey, six feet, perfect!
Please stay six feet away from me.
Hey, this is cool.
Hey, how you doing?
Give me a virtual hug, give me a virtual kiss.
Love it.
But I see this and I'm happy.
I'm like, "Yes, more freedom.
Move my arms around."
We have these things called neighbors.
Did you know your neighbor before this?
I see a lot of people talking to their neighbors now.
I see, ah, this is cool.
I see people taking some lawn chairs out on their driveway and their neighbors come over
and they keep six feet away and they have a couple of beers and they talk.
It seems like people are respecting humans more.
They're talking to other people and getting to know people again because our society is
people just staring at phones.
This needs to stop.
So, hey.
Oh, there's a human, let's talk to it and have fun.
Maybe you can learn something from them.
Workers.
Front line workers, people doing their jobs to help us.
There's been amazing amount of respect for people that most people take for granted.
Cleaners, cooks, people working in hospitals that aren't doctors and nurses, everyone who
is still working outside of home.
Doesn't have the luxury to stay home and work from home.
These people need our congratulations, our respect.
Thanks guys, like amazing, thank you.
So, we have to look at the human factor of things.
We have to go, "Hey, these people are working hard for us, and they're - without them, we'd
be nothing."
And, of course, our elderly people.
This is affected a lot of elderly people, it's no joke.
But I see stores opening earlier so that people can come in earlier and get what they need.
They can get the hand sanitizers; they can get the masks before all these crazy people
take them all.
So, what I see is the beginning of a respect for the humans.
Oh, I'm may be one, too.
But I like this.
And I think that this should continue and should never have stopped.
So, again, through all these hard times, please respect people.
Please try, try something new.
Learn English, www.engvid.com , have fun, enjoy.
Think positively, until then, I'm Ronnie.
Keep well.