Staying at home due to COVID-19: a disaster or an opportunity?(Part Three)
Some of us might hold that staying at home makes individuals isolated from the world, but if we think deeply, engagement can be not just outwardly but inwardly, meaning it happens not only through in-person activities or communications (not to mention that many have established/joined online communities, or launched a fair amount of meaningful campaigns online), but also by reading news and true stories happening right now in the world, relearning histories, rethinking our relation with the world, and, most importantly, introspecting ourselves, all of which can be conducted at home, by ourselves, and free of charge.
So all in all, what can we benefit from staying at home or self-isolation? The answer for me is this, stated in her commencement address at Harvard by the British novelist JK Rowling who quoted it from the Greek author Plutarch: “what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality". What we are experiencing today doesn’t set us apart; it brings us closer by offering us great opportunities to value our relationships and cherish each other much more; it encourages us to rethink and thus retreat our world, our lives and ourselves, by looking into the essences through the misty surfaces; it makes us less of a tool, but more of a human, by returning us our time which would otherwise have been spent on meaningless things. Far from being a disaster, staying at home due to COVID-19 is truly an opportunity.
(p.s. I just found out that there is a restriction on the length of the article. So I divided my article into three parts and above is the last one. )
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Staying at home due to COVID-19: a disaster or an opportunity?(Part Three)
Some of us might hold the opinion that staying at home makes individuals isolated from the world, but if we think deeply, engagement can be not just outwardly but also inwardly directed. What I meaning it happens mean by this is that not only through in-person activities or communications (not to mention that many have established/joined online communities, or launched a fair amount of meaningful campaigns online) but also by reading news and true stories happening right now in the world, relearning histories, rethinking our relationship with the world, and, most importantly, introspecting ourselves self introspection, all of which can be conducted at home, by ourselves, and free of charge.
So all in all, what can we benefit from staying at home or self-isolation? The answer for me is this, as stated in her commencement address at Harvard by the British novelist JK Rowling who quoted it from the Greek author Plutarch: “what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality". What we are experiencing today doesn’t set us apart; it brings us closer by offering us great opportunities to value our relationships and cherish each other much more; it encourages us to rethink and thus retreat recreate our world, our lives and ourselves, by looking into the essences through the misty surfaces; it makes us less of a tool, but more of a human, by returning to us our time which would otherwise have been spent on meaningless things. Far from being a disaster, staying at home due to COVID-19 is truly an opportunity.
(p.s. I just found out that there is a restriction on the length of the article. So I divided my article into three parts and above is the last one. )
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Let's honor those who share their great wisdom with us.
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I like the sentence that 'what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality'.
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