After years of living in a modern lifestyle that marginalizes the role of the home and places it at the bottom of the list of priorities, compulsory quarantine came as the only option in the face of the outbreak of the new Corona virus, so that millions around the world found themselves forced to stay in their homes for days on end without the opportunity to go out. In the face of this new situation, boredom and emptiness took over most of those isolated in their homes, not caring about the options that have become available on the Internet, which can make the home quarantine period a happy open vacation, full of positive experiences and practices. Waei Foundation for Research and Development offers you a group of fruitful activities that you can benefit from during the quarantine period, after you take all precautionary steps to protect yourself and your family from transmitting the virus to you. By raising the level of hygiene to the highest level, with the necessity of washing hands with soap periodically, using sterilizers, and avoiding shaking hands, kissing, and visits.
1) Online educational content:
If you want to learn new things, all you have to do is head to the YouTube platform, which is a veritable goldmine of interesting educational content. Regardless of your interests (geography, psychology, history, filmmaking, writing, etc.), you can find a YouTube channel that teaches you something new or interesting.
2) Mastering a new skill:
One of the most ideal ways to spend your free time is to learn something new. You can start a new hobby or master a skill you have always wanted to learn. You can learn new skills for both your work and your personal life. All you have to do is spend some time trying new programs that may help you at work. You can learn the rules of intonation of the Holy Qur’an through the intonation lessons that YouTube abounds with.
3) Group video calls:
You can spend a lot of your time with friends through communication applications that provide group video calls. Through these calls, you can view the news of friends and loved ones without leaving your place, which increases communication between friends and loved ones and reduces the negative effects of the lockdown conditions and the prevention of direct meetings.
4) Reading books:
Almost everyone has a list of books that they would like to read, so today, while you are committed to self-quarantine, which helps the whole world limit the spread of the Corona virus, you can start reading these books, and you can also rely on the many digital book platforms that provide endless options.
5) Documentary films:
If you don’t enjoy reading, you can learn something new by watching dozens of documentaries online. Streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and others have large collections of documentaries, but Netflix’s documentaries section is an excellent place to start, as what you find there will likely keep you busy for days.
6) Training courses:
Your commitment to self-quarantine, which helps limit the spread of the Corona virus, is the ideal time to start an online course because it requires time and effort, as you can choose anything you are interested in, from how to use Photoshop to learning a new language or even studying philosophy.
7) Fitness:
If you usually go to the gym to maintain your physical fitness, today, during your commitment to home quarantine, you can repeat your regular exercises at home, or you can check out the most prominent international sites that offer lessons to maintain your physical fitness from home.
8) Reclaim your hobbies:
You can return to hobbies that make you happy, just for the sake of enjoyment, such as drawing, playing, or writing, or even trying a new food recipe, as we have seen on social media pages, which have become full of people sharing recipes for food and desserts that they decided to try at home, bragging about the results, and sharing the method with others.
9) Take nap minutes:
During work days, we cannot take a nap in the middle of the day, and the only rest time is during the night, but during home quarantine you can enjoy a short nap of 20-30 minutes. It is not limited to children only, as it also has benefits for adults to restore the mind, increase concentration, and reduce errors, in addition to its psychological benefits in improving mood, alertness, and performance.
10) Postponing homework:
The world will not collapse if we postpone washing the dishes as soon as the food is finished. You can leave the dishes for some time to enjoy talking with the family after lunch, tasting dessert, or relaxing, and return to household tasks when you feel like doing this, and you can enjoy this now, as there is no schedule or appointments that you have to catch up with, and postponing household chores will not hurt anything.
11) Body and skin care
Aside from exercise, which may seem exhausting to some, you can take care of yourself by putting a mask on your face or enjoying a long, warm bath, to relax physically and psychologically without thinking about what is going on in the world around us.
12) Meditation on the universe:
You may have seen every day how elderly people sit on the balconies of their homes to enjoy reading and drinking a cup of tea without doing anything. A month ago, you did not take this part of your life into consideration. Now you can practice the meditation that you hear about and did not apply before. Fortunately, we are in the spring season now, and it is the right time to enjoy nature.
13) Family summer sessions
There are many families, due to life circumstances, family separation and self-isolation have become prevalent, and members of one household may only meet occasionally. Therefore, times of curfew are an opportunity for family gatherings, increasing family closeness, and holding summer sessions in which family members meet and exchange memories, or each one talks about his hobbies and interests, or even his sorrows and joys. Perhaps many have discovered that he did not know his partner at home well.
