"Freedom Day"

There's so many things that are going through my head for this photo that I want to say, but I'd be here typing away for hours. This day is bittersweet. Am I excited and glad that the lockdowns in Melbourne are finally being let up? Absolutely.

But at the same time there's despair in the fact that we are opening up with our covid case numbers the highest they've ever been.

I'm afraid that people who I know and care about could still get covid, and could die.

I'm frustrated at the people who constantly just broke the rules of lockdown which meant that our cases skyrocketed, leading us to having to give up on keeping our numbers down.

But at the same time, being in the city on the night that restaurants and pubs were open for the first time in 3 months - there was a special vibe in the air.

A bit of hope that maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of normal. Whatever normal ends up being.