Five benefits of the lockdown

You can benefit from the limited movement caused by the lockdown (Photo: Shutterstock)

At the onset of the lockdown, I thought two things: (1) Limiting movement will prevent me from getting sick and consequently making my family sick, and (2) I won’t be able to get many of my 2020 projects going. Number two made me quite sad because I had such plans for this year but, it turns out, the universe had other plans. To ensure that I made it through this time with minimal damage to my mental health, I told myself that I needed to focus on the positive and do only those things that brought me joy.

Now that we’re approaching month three, I can safely say that there have been some positives that have come out of this lockdown. And I’m choosing to focus on these because I know and understand the consequences, particularly on my mental health, of looking at the glass as half full rather than half empty. Below are some pros of the lockdown.