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becoming love
I learned that human connection is one of our most valuable gifts as human beings. Love is the most beautiful and important feeling in the world. I've come to experience love in another country, I've loved strangers and strangers have loved me. I learned the real value of a smile and I confirmed that kindness is something we should never live without. I think I've never felt as loved as I do today. By God, by my friends back home, by my family, by my new friends of the bateyes and specially by my new rustic family. Let it be remembered that we have to let everyone see through our heart and we...
Light, Darkness and Everything in Between
Ever since the coronavirus pandemic exploded, I’ve been feeling quite confused. Sometimes, I feel extremely grateful because my family and my friends are safe. Other times, I feel heartbroken for the people who are sick, their loved-ones and the ones who are economically affected by the quarantine. When I am disappointed about a trip to see international friends being canceled, I feel a little ashamed for feeling sad about something so “superficial” when other people have it worst. I’ve also heard a lot of things about how people are dealing with this crisis. Some are having anxiety due to...
Coronavirus and mental health: your wellbeing can be someone else’s survival
Hey kids.
We cannot emphasize enough How it’s a problem, too much to bluff. Innocence is swept away, All because the older ones have a say, A say for us girls, and even the boys. However, it’s always the girls that are sensualized toys. At a tender age, be it nine or twenty, you would think they’d leave us be We should be open and not forced Into this over sexualized society where all they see are curves, chest, hips, legs, and the symmetrical face already. They crave beauty. They desire with lust. Well how can we trust? We’re so young, we may not even be ready. For such comments and looks. We still...
How Art Can be of Value During Self Isolation
It’s a time of tension with lots of cases of the novel Coronavirus being reported over the world. COVID-19 is now the most well known word wherever you live. By now, many of you know where it came from, but none of us is aware of when it will leave. When such times come none one is really prepared, and even those who seem to be are still hit un-aware. False information is spreading like wildfire, resulting in pressure on people and children. Fear has become a centerpiece of our reaction – accompanied by psychological pressure and stress. Quarantine and isolation in general are important to...
Black
"I love the view of sunset. The skin on my skeleton likes to feel the warmth of it. The first thing I like to see is the sight of birds sitting on a mahogany tree just outside my window. They love to wake me up on Sunday mornings. Their chirping is an alarm to my ears. I love the sound that the leaves of a tree make when it's windy. I like to sit on the terrace in the evening when it's about to rain and feel the air rushing against my body, when it tries to push my hair to the other side. I love the fragrance of soil after it rains, petrichor is what it's called, isn't it? I love to go to the...
Why you should choose zero waste gifts?
During Christmas and New year people are actively seeking gifts for family, friends or co-workers. Unfortunately, this beautiful and exciting season is associated with a rapid increase of waste such as labels, wrapping papers, gift cards, in fact, millions of gift cards are thrown away and they end up in nature or on the landfills. It's no secret that recycling those waste takes several decades and causes damage to our environment. Often it is hard to even realize how much waste we generate during the holiday season. Fortunately, each of us can contribute to changing this sad reality for the...
Coronavirus: The Great Reminder For Humans
I just saw some jokes in Twitter about COVID-19 related to Asians and Chinese people. As an Asian, it's not funny at all to joke like that in this situation, and I got a little bit offended. They said "don't be close to Chinese people." How can this be possible, while China also helps other countries to solve the problem? Why don't they use their maturity and humanity to act? Please, don't be racist, and if your friends are infected with COVID-19, avoid the virus, not the person. COVID-19 is a big reminder for humans. Though many people have died and become sick, we can still try to find some...
Let's protect each other!
It's a very difficult time now, but it doesn't mean it's a reason to be rude and afraid! More care and patience! Let 's support doctors and others because only then we can win together! Let's protect each other! If you are between 13 and 24, share your illustrations, drawings and other art content that help raise awareness on the importance of supporting each other, kindness in terms of crisis and taking care of your mental health. Learn how to do it, here.
The Path We Pave
Lockdown
You might be in your room right now underneath your blanket, watching Netflix, chilling, eating the stock you're having right now and if you are empty you went to the only shop opened near your area, unfortunately, I was doing the same but after I came out of the ration shop I saw two hungry children, I was having many packets of snacks so I decided to give one to them. But during the time I was searching for the packet in my bag I saw four more children coming, asking me to give them rice and wheat. I can afford to give two of them but not six, and I am sorry for that. They were screaming...
5 foods that can keep your mental health in check in the times of pandemic
The Covid 19 pandemic is taking a toll – not just on the world economic operations and markets, but also on our mental health. As administrations across the globe rush to shut down activities in order to contain further infections, many of us are left all by ourselves, locked up inside our own homes, virtual communication being the only feasibility. Although many are engaging a lot more with various social media sites, others reading or maybe learning new languages or skills in order to keep their minds occupied, yet there are several suffering from bouts of anxiety, that’s ultimately having...
World heroes
In memory of all those who left us! You were fighting coronavirus to save your family, your friends, your country, and the whole world! Here in Kyrgyzstan, we are praying for everyone to fight back for the love and happiness, to stay longer with loved ones! Here in Kyrgyzstan, we are crying for the loss, our hearts are broken but full of hope. If you are between 13 and 24, share your illustrations, drawings and other art content that help raise awareness on the importance of supporting each other, kindness in terms of crisis and taking care of your mental health. Learn how to do it, here.
Keeping our mood up during the coronavirus lockdown period
My name is Kaninica Sengupta and I'm a 7th Grade Learner in Chennai, India. The first two days were really fun. I could sleep in late, wake up late and did not have to worry about going to school. But everything changed in the third day. I was sick of the usual routine. I missed school and I missed my teachers. I was scared of how I was supposed to learn even though our last exams were over. My school teachers started giving us home work, worksheets and audios/videos via our e- mails. That kept me engaged. I am a person who needs to do something different or I get bored really quickly. My mum...
COVID-19 and an Overshadowed Earth Day
This year's Earth Day will be starkly different from all the ones I have spent at school. As I am stuck staring at the pale white-yellow walls of my room that confine me, I find myself itching to do more. Struggling to speak out, try to make an impact- in a world that is deteriorating in so many ways. As one problem overshadows the previous, we forget some of the other projects, passions and movements we have been working on for so long. Living life under the coronavirus has become the new normal, especially living in Singapore- a country that’s been hit especially hard. It’s only taken a...
This Poem is For the Love
This poem is for the children whose schools have closed, the children who rely on whatever their pocket change can buy them in the cafeteria to get them through the day. This poem is for the people who lived through a lifetime of war and are as afraid of going outside on this still spring night as they were back then. This poem is for every family from my city to your city, to every city neither of us have ever been to or heard of. This poem is for the mother who lost her job and has to feed 3 kids. This poem is for the boy who searches for smiley faces in the rain drops sticking to his...
Purpose
Every living soul born to this earth must serve a purpose. Big or small. What is purpose... How should we find it, ours... When we serve a big purpose, it seems easy for us to identify it. We will come out to the surface of the water, visible and identifiable. However, what if we serve a small purpose... We will not come out to the surface of the water, we will might as well be submerged, there will be no momentum to soar high. Invisible and unidentifiable. It is only our existence. Our existence that will touch others'. How would it make a purpose, we might think. It is our existence...
Lebanese Water Wars
How to succeed in failure without really trying
Some paths you must walk alone. We all know that. We come to this world alone and alone we must go, or something like that. And the love you give, sometimes you might never get it back. And let’s not forget the world is full of injustice and anger and plastic that just won´t go away. I could write for days about the darkness there is out there or the hopeless void I sometimes feel I’m a part of. But in all honesty, who needs that? Did you notice how easy it is to just sink in it? Do you get what a dark place your life would be if you decide it to be? When something bad happens in your life, it...