7 Days of Pokémon Go: Day One – You Don’t Hustle You Don’t Level Up

Look fam, last week was rough. You watched Black people gunned down by police every day in different cities across the country, 5 police officers were killed after what had been a peaceful protest, and you probably found yourself in more than one unsolicited “All Lives Matter” conversation. We’re there with you. While digesting all of this pain, we have found moments to steal some joy back for ourselves, following the lead of our colleague Lauren Bullock’s column about the Blackest Joy in the form of Pokémon Go. We’re bringing you 7 days of Pokémon Go, our testimonies and our spontaneous moments of delight that have helped us get by. Catch our week-long series here. [quote_simple]”You Don’t Hustle You Don’t Eat”- Diddy[/quote_simple] Pokémon Go is that relationship you find yourself in doing the most work just to get to second base… second base being an evolved Squirtle. If you’d told me 6 years ago that I’d be in my early thirties out late at night wandering aimlessly trying to catch an Onix Pokemon then realizing I was surrounded by hordes of pre-teens doing the same thing, I’d have told you, “sounds about right.” It’s funny that we live in an age where console games are online and you can join in with a friend on wi-fi instead of having to visit one another. Historians will look back and see that it took Pokemon Go for people to re-establish human contact in 2016. I haven’t seen my roommate Ian in days and I live with that man. I haven’t seen Josh in months and he lives …