NorthWest Muslim Summer Issue

Page 8

PEACE OF MIND By: Zeba Hashmi, London Ontario

S

erenity is a calm-

to cut down the level of

ness, a feeling of

traveling, consumerism, and

tranquility. How

physical engagement with

many of us have

others. This has certainly

it? How many of us have

slowed our level of outdoor

the time to feel in such a

daily activity and shifted it

manner? How many of us

to the indoors. We now

are able to adapt to it when

more than ever are engag-

forced to?

ing with our families, our

At this point in time, we are

little ones, our youth, and

seeing our routines as pre-

our elders, even if it is from

Covid-19 and post-Covid-19.

a distance. We are more in-

“

How would we rank ourselves with having a sense of calmness in

volved in cooking, crafts,

There is no longer a village to support the physical needs of a family.

our lives? This depends on

and nature.

your personal living arrange-

We have become pockets of

ment, family size, level of

isolated family units and

stability, and support sys-

while we are embarking

tem.

once again on a lifestyle that

In the lockdown post Covid-

existed in the mid-late

19 we have also been forced Photo by Oscar Nord on Unsplash 8

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