Youths Learn that a Crisis is a Time of Positive and Negative Change

By Regina Hoo

June 2021 COVER STORY
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FOR YOUTHS with fast-paced lifestyles, Covid-19 has been a sobering experience; timelines are cut, and familiar patterns upended. Extended lockdowns and various limitations to mobility left many lacking options for passing their time.Being in limbo leaves many wondering about their existence and their future, seeing it get bleaker every day. Not being able to be busy is a bigger challenge than one might think. As they say in Okinawa, Japan, happy are those who feel ikigai, roughly meaning “the happiness...

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Regina Hoo

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