You may be thinking, "how is quarantine even good if we are literally in lockdown?" Well, for starters, we end up knowing who our real friends are and who are not. It is hard losing those long-lasting friendships that you would think would have lasted forever, but people end up going their ways. That does not mean that you lose the friendship completely; it just means what friends are closer to you. Whenever you have a friend or lose one, you must realize that they taught you something that will benefit you in the long run. So, friendships and relationships are one thing we have learnt in quarantine; of those who are our real friends and those who are simply acquaintances that are part of your discovery.
Another thing that we have learnt, or discovered, during quarantine is the things that we like to do during our free time, whether it is watching Netflix all day long, working out, painting, listening to music, studying, reading, or any other activity. The activities that you do during your free time during the vacation days, maybe determine how productive you are in your day-to-day activities (during the school year or college). The comparison to the explanation given above can be the marshmallow experiment. If you have not yet heard of it, well then, it's time, and it may change your perspective of how you see or do things. The marshmallow experiment consists of several young children, around the ages of four and five, left in a room for approximately 15 minutes. During that period, the kid had the choice between waiting to get a second marshmallow or eat it before those 15 minutes had finished and not get a second marshmallow. However, if the child did eat the marshmallow, they would not get a second marshmallow. The choice was simple: eat one marshmallow now or two later. The experiment did not end that day; it went on for several years when the kids were adults. In conclusion, those who waited patiently for the second marshmallow had succeeded in whatever capacity they were measuring. The lesson learnt from this experiment is that if you delay the gratification, you will achieve what you want instead of procrastinating and avoiding what you want to do.
Relating this experiment to our locked-up summer, the time to do what we want is now. You haven't finished the painting or book, catching up with that friend via telephone or facetime, trying a new hobby, well, anything. It will be up to you if you want to be that kid that didn't wait to eat the marshmallow or the one that did.
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