Dreams and nightmares

I’m up at Tahoe with Sophia at a share house that one of my close buddies organized for the summer. My friend Mike was living in Tahoe and decided to travel the world until COVID hit. Since then he’s been back in Tahoe and organized an amazing home for a bunch of us to stay at this summer.

I jumped at the opportunity as this has been a dream of mine for some time. This has been a nice benefit of the work from home life due to COVID. I miss the office and my coworkers but I figured that I make the best of the opportunity and ride out the quarantine this summer in Lake Tahoe.

Everything up here almost seems normal. People hanging out enjoying the weather. Restaurants are opening up for limited seating and there’s people starting to congregate more and more.

Of course this is a small distraction from the reality of the world.

COVID-19 didn’t go away overnight. Racial inequality is rampant in the country and there are still widespread protests. We still have an absolute idiot in the White House attempting to divide the country for his own benefit. Yet, the stock market continues to rise and we seem to be set for all-time highs sooner than later.

Reality is going to sink in for everyone including myself sooner than later. The dream of escaping reality up here in Tahoe and pretending things are normal and perfect is well.. just a dream.

In a sense, the stock market is a dream as well. There’s more money in American wallets than ever before due to the Fed and abnormal spending and that’s perhaps masking the reality of the world today.

Unfortunately reality and nightmares will soon hit. I don’t know if the market will crash again or if COVID-19 will continue to spread rapidly. I hope not, but if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s to expect the worst to happen.