Rotaract Medium

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off your souls” As rightly said by Pablo Picaso, art heals our souls, connects to our emotions at a deeper level. Be it music,painting or even a folk dance, art has the immense power to infuse positivity and happiness in us. Art provides a way to forget our sorrows. It gives us a much more beautiful perceptive of life, makes us live in the moment. Creating art reduces the stress levels in us as well. No time can beat the dire need of the infusing positivity in us than the time of the pandemic. When we all are isolated, and when there is nothing to do, and our thoughts are completely filled with the negatives surrounding us , our empty mind has become the devil’s workshop. But there was art, which provided us a distraction.“Bringing people together, inspiring, soothing and sharing: these are the powers of art, the importance of which has been made emphatically obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic”, Audrey Azoulay says in he...

Are you familiar with this scenario: Standing in front of a closet full of clothes, stuffed from bottom to the very top and still couldn’t decide what to wear, almost an everyday ritual before leaving for college. This “decision fatigue”, the dilemma of not having anything to wear even after having a literal overload of clothes. Did you know that the average person only wears 20% of their wardrobe on a regular basis? That means 80% of those clothing items we simply couldn’t live without spend the majority of the time in the wardrobe, while we reach for the same well-loved dress again and again. “Have you ever thought about intentionally having less?” Less debt, less clutter, less stress, less stuff!   A capsule wardrobe is a practice of editing your wardrobe down to your favourite clothes (clothes that fit your lifestyle + body right now), remixing them regularly, and shopping less often and more intentionally. It refers to a collection of 30-40 practical and versatile piece...