It is a blessing when remarkable persons that we admire make time to speak with us. Those shared interviews are reflections of us both, that’s why it’s imperative that what we ask matters.
One of those persons we were blessed to speak with was acclaimed Hip Hop artist O-Slice!
During our conversation about the effects of the pandemic we asked her this GOOD QUESTION: Did 2020 cause you to value your life and the lives of others more than you did already?
She answered, “I think I always placed a high value on my life and others. I think I’ve always been one of those “don’t hold a grudge because you never know”. I’ve always tried to value life to the highest capacity and not take it for granted, so I don’t think that it necessarily changed that.
I think maybe it made the other outcome feel a little more realistic, because it’s like people are really dying. I think that last year kind of made me really understand death and how final and how real it is. Sometimes you look at it from a far but I feel like, especially with a lot of the celebrities that passed it, just felt like … We always knew that death could happen to anybody but when you see people just being snatched from life it’s like, wow.
It just shook me a little bit harder this year, not a little, like a lot harder in 2020. And I think that it also kind of made me put more value in my actions, and how responsible I am for them.
For example: With the way Covid moves, it’s like if you do something, you put yourself at risk. You might be okay with doing that but you’re not okay with putting yourself at risk and your friend at risk, or yourself at risk and your family at risk. You just kind of have to take more accountability.
So, I think that it made me understand that the things that I do and the sacrifices I have to make are not just for me, but for those around me and the people that I love.” | THIS ENT
[By Mr. Joe Walker]
