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                    ounce of prevention is worth a pound         certain  pieces  of  information  that
                    of cure!”                                    gave me goosebumps!

                     QUARANTINE AND CHILL:                       SHAKESPEARE,  who  has  shaken
                                                                 this  majestic  sphere with  his brilliant
                          I  am  that  sort  of  person  who
                                                                 works,  wrote  King  Lear  during  a
                    believes that quarantine cannot offer a      plague!
                    solaced  melodrama.  Separation  from
                    the  loved  ones,  the  loss  of  freedom,   Sir ISSAC NEWTON:
                    uncertainty  over  disease  status,          Discovered  the  laws  of  gravity  and
                    constant  boredom…  Does  it  feel           invented calculus under quarantine!
                    good?  But  still,  we  must  taste  the      Mary  Shelly  when  she  wrote
                    bitter things to earn sweet things! The      FRANKENSTEIN  was  cooped  up
                    question  that  clouded  my  mind  was       in  the  house  because  of  the  year
                    “Why  don’t  we  make  this  peculiar        without summer. Can’t she serve as a
                    circumstance  a  bittersweet  one?  Is       motivating     figure    as    well? So,
                    this  the  time  to  break  or  to  be       shouldn’t we buckle down and write a
                    productive?” The following words of          masterpiece  or  invite  a  genre  or
                    Monica  Torres  in  HuffPost  also           discovering  fundamental  laws  of  the
                    added fuel to my chaotic fire, “Please       universe  in  our  quarantine!  Let  your
                    don’t  be  guilted  into  being  more        creative  juices  overflow  in  this
                    productive during coronavirus.”              quarantine!
                    We,  the  youngsters,  spend  our  time      THANK OUR HEROES:
                    locked  into  the  endless  scroll  of
                    twitter  and  instagram,  all  of  which
                    reward  constant  immersion  and
                    monitoring  until  they  begin  to  feel
                    like  duties  rather  than  stuff  that  we
                    use for fun. We listen to audiobooks
                    at  1.5  speed  to  consume  them  more
                    efficiently.  In  my  point,  “Leisure  in
                    this  materialistic  world  is  not  truly
                    leisure, it’s a labor!”


                    LISTEN TO YOUR OWN SELF:                     This  kind  of  picture  pops  up  from
                                                                 every  corner  of  the  world.  Recently,
                          As  the  saying  of  Swami
                                                                 we  have  seen  that  a  doctor  couple
                    Vivekananda “You are the teacher of
                                                                 from  Italy  had  passed  away  after
                    your own and you have to learn from
                    mistakes and give yourself a solidarity      saving  134  patients.  So,  First  and
                    time  “Self  isolation  is  in  fact  an     foremost,  let’s  promise  ourselves  to
                    excellent opportunity  to spend much         Salute them all, brave workers all over
                                                                 the  globe.  Their  sacrifice  and  calm
                    time  relaxing  into  the  peace  of  your
                                                                 countenance is awe striking! Hats off!
                    holy  inner  sanctuaries.  At  this
                    juncture, It is worthwhile to mention





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