An interesting time that we live in right now. We are the generation that will tell our kids that the world was dying and on their question “what did you do to save it?” we will probably have only one response “stayed at home.” To some extend it will be hilarious in the future, but at the meantime we can only guess how far quarantine will go. The venues are closing, concerts and shows are being cancelled, there is no space to create, you might say. Or is there? 
The whole world is on PAUSE right now. We are all united with the same exact issue, the population of the Earth is in the same circumstances. So, what do we do? I say, create! Imagine! Unite! I saw a meme the other day, it said something like “those who considered musicians, actors, writers not important enough, try to cope this quarantine in silence – without music, films and TV series”. How true is that? How valuable our field is especially in this tough time?! 
Celebrities are going even further, they are showing up for our community through social media. Natalie Portman and Margot Robbie started a main stream of reading a book to children. Check it out:





During this time, we, as never before, can contribute to our society without any additional physical effort. However, those contributions are in high value to parents who have to work from home and teach their kids at the same time. 
Joseph Gordon-Levitt approached this pandemic also from creative prospective and unites collaborators from around the world. In his platform “HitRecord” he allows writers, musicians and other artist to work together on various projects. For instance, one may write an idea for a TV show and another can adjust, add or edit it and create something new. Similarly, singers may find a song and add their vocals to it.




What else is there to do, you say?!  Create! Collaborate! Unite!

If you much rather prefer to be on your own, maybe it is that time that you always needed to finish writing a play or a painting? Maybe you always wanted to learn how to play piano, but never had spare time? Let’s find something positive in this negative circumstance. No one right now is ahead, we all are on pause. So take this time for something that you always wanted to do. I believe that each and one of us has a little creator living in us. So let them be! 

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  1. HJSApril 5, 2020 at 2:23 PM

    Like you, I have been thinking about the most productive ways I can spend my time. I have been working on a book for almost a year now, and I would like to devote more time to it than I used to be able to. I am excited for our classes to end so that I can do that project in May with fewer class interruptions. There are days when I feel like giving up and being a Zombie, but the internet provides a really interesting opportunity for us to have an expanded mental world at the same time as our physical world is shrinking. I find this transition of space to be really interesting, and I can't help feeling grateful that our first big pandemic happened in an era where Margot Robbie and Natalie Portman can read books to children over the internet. Even ten years ago, this would have been a totally different experience.

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