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5 Powerful Life-Lessons That The Lockdown Taught Me

#1. Looking inward for happiness

Asmita Karanje
Live Your Life On Purpose
7 min readMay 25, 2020

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I am sure this lockdown has taught us several things ranging from something as small as ‘’how to wash our hands the right way’’ to something more significant like ‘’connecting with our loved ones virtually.’’ Some lessons are tactical or technical like knitting or creating content, but some are deeper and profound like ‘’adapting to change’’ and ‘’valuing relationships over money.’’

Here are my top 5 life-lessons.

Hope you can relate to a few of them and find some useful tips on a few suggestions & recommendations.

#1. Looking inward for happiness

It has to be the topmost life-lesson. With improved lifestyle, cheap international travel, and rampant promotion on social media, ‘’travel’’ had become the mainstay for many people in this millennium. Staying home was rather uncool.

However, the pandemic has helped us to break that cycle. It gave us an avenue to find pleasure in small things such as learning to bake or connecting with our long lost friends. It also aided in pursuing our long lost passion — painting or cooking or taking that Guitar lesson.

Most important of all, staying home has helped me in developing a perspective — to

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