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As the global pandemic has hit the world, most of the countries including Pakistan, governments implemented complete lockdown to stop the spreading of the deadly virus. All the activities have stopped across the country, confining people to their houses. Though it has given everyone a relief from their busy routine and promoted family hours, yet the screen time and social media usage have increased tremendously. Since the lockdown has started, I have been staying at home too just like every other person in the country and being a teacher most of my time is spent using the internet, taking classes, assigning tasks, helping and teaching students online (totally relying on the internet for staying connected to my work and for leisure time too). Then one day the internet stopped working and I tried everything in the book to fix it but it went in vain. Those few days I had to spend without the internet, which made me so frustrated and realized how badly I was dependent on the internet. Co...

If you can’t go outside, go inside!   Quarantined and practicing social distancing, all of us are going through a time that is frightening and threatening, both physically and mentally. Though we don’t know how exactly it’ll impact or how bad things might get, which makes it even overwhelmingly dreadful and emotionally distressing, yet there is always a silver lining, there always is. Being a teacher, for me, the most crucial part of life has become “time” and how effectively it needs to be managed to excel. However, the teaching and effective use of time must not be confined for professional purposes, but to organize one’s life and dig out the talents within: to start a journey within for bringing out the best versions of ourselves.  As the demand of the 21 st century, we all need to get connected to technology either as a need or a passion and are very well aware of different application software, we are aware of the fact that; with the passage of time every the softwar...

Earth is breathing again ! Now that the whole world is locked down to save themselves from the ferocious virus, the Earth has started healing.               Locked down and quarantined just like the rest of the world, where everyone is busying themselves in activities indoors, I have been giving more time to reading too. Being a passionate reader I started reading “The Forty Rules of Love” by Elif Shafak, whose story revolves around thirteenth-century poet, Rumi and his spiritual leader, Shams. As I proceeded reading this book and the rules of love by Shams of Tabraiz, I came across a rule which caught my attention. The rule states                                  “Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things may seem, do not enter the neighborho...