3 Lessons I Have Learned While Spending My Quarantine In A Remote Village In Asia

I never thought that spending my 3 months in my village will impact my life that much.

I really don’t like spending time in a village. When I was in college I often visit my family for two days in a month and in summers I had to spend a whole month but I never thought that I will get this opportunity to spend three months because of COVID-19.

I was in a student hostel preparing for my exams when a friend called me and informed me that “The government has announced complete lockdown of the country” this means that now, I have to visit my village and spend the rest of the time there. I was a freelance writer too and also run other online businesses.

In a small village in the Asian country, the total number of homes might be 1,000 to 1,500. The villages are mostly made of mud and very few homes are made of concrete. The economics of the village mostly relies on farmers and people who have jobs in the city or in foreign countries.

There are a lot of lessons I have learned while being quarantined in my village.

Life isn’t easy as it looks

Near to my hometown, there is a farmer who wakes up early in the morning and goes to his farms, then he works for more than 10 hours under the sun, that’s the hardest thing I have ever seen. He makes less than $20 a day. Even though, as a freelancer, blogger, and YouTuber, I could make more money with less effort, this shows, life is at the same time unfair and hard for some people and we should be thankful for what we have rather than worry about what we don’t have.

Before I was in the city, I wasn’t aware of the hard life of the villagers and often do less amount of work compared to the work I am doing now and the inspiration behind it is “Village Life”

Waking up early

I wake up late in my hostel life. The problem with waking up late is that half of the day is already passed if you wake up at 12:00 PM, and you have literally no energy to do your work. Procrastination is the most common problem among all young people.

And now, i wake up early. Go to a morning walk.

Go to this place in picture for a Yoga and sit there for an hour. Even though this place was so near to my home, I have never visit this place but thanks to lockdown, I discovered this beautiful place to sit there in quiet and do some yoga.

Waking up early helped me to make a list of things to do every day and start acting on those goals from the very beginning of the day.

If you make a list of things then you can be more productive compared to a person who doesn’t know what to do next. Just complete your to-do list and you are happy to go.

Remote work is possible

I am a freelancer, blogger, and YouTuber. I also write on Quora and Medium at the same time. This means I have to manage over 5 small businesses, yes, writing on Quora is a business for me. In Asian countries, the Internet is so cheap that a GB of the Internet will costs you somewhere between $0.08 to $0.2, in my case, a GB of the Internet costs me $0.09.

As someone once said:

Give me an Internet connection, a Laptop, and a room, and I will revolutionize the world.

Because of the Lockdown, I am not in my office while instead, I am now typing this from the comfort of my room in a village.

This was my story of living in an Asian village far from the city.