So this past weekend I went fishing with my sister, her two kids, and her boyfriend. It was my day off but I received a phone call early that morning (mood=pissed because I wanted to sleep in), but I quickly got over it, got up , and got dressed. Nothing fancy, just the worlds most comfortable cargo shorts and a brown shirt, complimented by my favorite pair of Old Navy flip flops!
So once I get to the other side of the world were my sister lives (aka the other side of town), we pack up two cars worth of fishing equipment. You would think we were going camping. And then we even went to Wal-Mart so my sis could buy more stuff, life blankets and extra weights for the rods.
Now this whole time I'm thinking were just gonna hit up the local beach pier and fish with everyone else. So in my mind I can enjoy the comfort of being at my favorite place in the world (the beach) and hopefully catch some dinner as well. But noooo, my sisters boyfriend knows this "hot spot" that good for fishing. So we head there.....oh yea, by the way it was in Ponte Vedra Beach which was like an hour away from where we were. So we finally get their and he tells us that in order to get to this "remote" location we must first walk through some woods. Notice he said "some" woods. So were like, ok no problem....so we all grab all the stuff, which was alot more than we could handle, did I mention we picked up tons of snacks from Wal-Mart as well. And we begin out hike through the woods...which turned out to be 2 miles in the sweltering heat carrying all this heavy fishing stuff with flies attacking us the whole way!!
But once we got there, it was cool. Just a little patch of land where we could set up camp and hopefully catch some fish. So as I'm standing in the water waiting on the slightest jerk on my line I start thinking.....we as Americans have it so easy today. Then I was thinking about the 2 mile hike in the woods carrying all that stuff, I was imagining what the conditions were like when Harriet Tubman made her way from the South to the North. I was thinking about the people in Africa who don't have any transportation and some don't even have shoes. The weather is much hotter over there and they have to carry there whole life on there head. I started thinking about the times when people had to fish by hand, roast that sucker with a handmade fire and eat it just like that, no lemon pepper or tartar sauce. Hell not even a fishing rod to catch the fish!! With all this being said, it just made me realize how far things have come for African Americans, and it made be appreciate the things I have now. It also made me extremely curious about Black history and what the conditions were like. I think that this weekend I'm gonna go check on an African American Art exhibit that taking place at a local museum, and perhaps I'll even do some research people like Harriet Tubman. I guess the whole point of this entry is just to share my experience with you and remind you that other people made it possible for us to live the life we live today. And although things are certainly not perfect, we should still celebrate and cherish what those people have accomplished!!
So if your reading this I challenge you to Google any African American who sacrificed alot so that we could have what we have today. You'll be surprised!!
Here's a little uh video I made during our adventure!! Enjoy!!
