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Editor's Note

Like every cloud has a silver lining, these grey, more” in our lives. This meant holding onto a
tough times have a brighter side too. While few close relationships and making everything
we are cooped up in our homes with more possible with lesser resources. With fewer
or less just ourselves, things have changed in engagements, we are left with a lot of “Me” time.
and out. Yes, these times have been anxious, We are starting to understand the concept of
but on the brighter side, all of us have been ‘Quality over quantity’ and how little things like
able to find something about us that either we the sunrise and those first drops of rainwater
were too busy ignoring all the way or maybe are enough to fill us with an abundance of hope
just oblivious that it existed. Millions of people that everything will be alright.
have discovered how they could be good cooks
or how that one quote from that book they Even with all the hope we have in our hearts,
weren’t able to take the time to read changed getting rid of the negative thoughts seeping
their perception of how everything was. As for into our worlds from the slightest cracks gets
me, I have discovered how to ease down things more or less very difficult. In those times, I try
and take everything a little slower. to remind myself of a quote "Birds sing after
a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to
As the citizens of the Instagram kingdom that delight in whatever remains to them?" By Rose F.
we are, all of us are always striving to do more, Kennedy. This gives me all the power to remind
be more, show more. We have lived everything myself that good things are coming. Things
in FOMO, but then COVID happened. The first will be okay, if not immediately but eventually.
time we were all asked to get into our homes This issue is all about that. It is about keeping
and not leave, it was all too fast and too soon. yourself safe and positive. We will all be just
Everyone was dealing with different emotions fine. A bend in the road is not the end of the road
all at once. Fast forward to five months after unless you fail to make the turn.
those events, we are all in different places right
now, emotionally, mentally, and physically.
When I think of it, I feel like what COVID really
has done is swiftly bring the concept of “Less is (Apoorva Agrawal)

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