Before You Start

A pandemic, a long interval where the world has stopped and started to function at a slow pace, we finally paused. But this pause paradoxically becomes an opportunity to finally be able to deal with ourselves.

We found time to read the books, that we are never managed to finish or started something new (like this magazine) or we cooked for our beloved once. We finally appreciate our windows and balconies, which became the safest place to observe the small corners of the world. Terraces from which to peer into the universe, to observe the rising sun, to capture the sunset, and to rediscover the Moon, accompanied by billions of stars.

We found ourselves reflecting on our time, on the past and on the future, observing a precipitous past that makes room for a rich and decidedly slower present.

And even while we are still writing a hashtag #stayhome under our posts in social media, preparing dalgona coffee, getting ready for another zoom workout session and somewhere in the background we can hear playing Tik Tok “I’m bored in my house, and I’m in the house bored”, we’re not bored anymore. We made friends with boredom and we found that time is not just сontrolled by watch hands, it’s only in our hands.

Now, after having read the QDiary, I hope you have a bunch of useful hacks to survive the rest of quarantine time and you also have your own #afterquarantine vision of how you want your life to look like.

You are not afraid of the future. You are inspired. You can start living your best NOW, cause who knows what 2020 is still preparing for us.

xoxo,

Valia

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