In fact, what becomes of us, how we quietly transform, can happen during the darkest hours. Lockdown opens opportunities to practice and learn something new.
You can start a retreat, you can begin a hundred thousand recitations. You can sit often into mindful breathing sessions. You can light butter lamps and offer Saang, and read scriptures to learn what it teaches.
You can read books that gathered dust on the shelves for years. You can write stories and poems, paint and sketch, learn to dance, compose a song and sing out loud.
For students, this is the time to read books and revise subjects you learnt. You can learn what teachers couldn’t teach, you can practice handwriting, study chemistry if that was your nemesis. You can write essays, atleast ten essays to free your mind. You can learn new words, hundreds of them. Hone your Dzongkha writing, memorise some prayers, and journal your future five years from today.
This is the time, husband and wives, and lovers and fiancรฉes can spend time to talk and laugh, try to understand the differences, accept the gift each live for the other. The lockdown must open our home and hearts to connect and converse, to tell stories, share humour and rejoice meals together. This is the time not to isolate into our iPhones and Samsung, into LED TV and TaBs. This is the time we plan and discuss life before us. You must know, your children and future is a journey you cannot change again and again. Life is a miracle in everything that unfolds before us.
Lockdown must not waste our health, we must graduate with a new experience, new learning, new realization, and a new life to live.
Namgyal Tshering
Principal
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