alhamdulilah
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Your Parents Can Only Hold You Back if You Allow Them to Do So
﷽ ☺︎ Your immigrant ethnic mother and father can hold you back only if you allow them to hold you back. You need to draw a line in the sand when it comes to your pursuits. In fact, if you anticipate that they will hold you back from doing what’s best for your growth, then…
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Harsh Reality Strikes Again on a Cool April Night
﷽ ☺︎ One day, I’ll leave this house. I want that day to be peaceful. I want to leave this place in peace. I don’t want to hold a grudge against my father for taking the wifi out every time I disagreed with him or didn’t do what he wanted me to do. I can’t…
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On Progress, My Paid Newsletter, and People Who Are Always Negative & Embroiled in Drama
﷽ ☺︎ Progress is slow, but it is inevitable. Today, I feel very behind in life. I’m not where I want to be. I’m not comparing myself to anyone, alhamdulilah, but the younger version of myself had so many expectations for how my life was supposed to be. Alhamdulilah, I’m not the same the person…
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On Third-Culture Kids & the Shame of Growing up Poor in North America
﷽ I apologize for the abrupt frankness, but, tears are falling down my face as I write this. Today, my body has decided that it’s time I properly grieved the pain of losing the life I charted out for myself. I started university when I made a plan detailing how my life should’ve went, and…
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I Love Being a Stay-At-Home Daughter
﷽ ☺︎ It’s hard to enjoy the life Allah swt blessed you with if you constantly have your family breathing down your neck over you being unemployed. That is why I turned away from them when it comes to how I choose to run my life. My strategy for living my life is up to…
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On Celebrating Important Milestones, Alhamdulilah!
﷽ ☺︎ Not very long ago, I received an update indicating that I’ve reached a very important milestone. Alhamdulilah. Without Allah, it never would have been possible. All thanks and appreciation belong to Him. I won’t say what happened, dear reader, but I nevertheless would like to share how I experienced this event. Most of…
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On the Time I Got into a Car Accident, Accepting the Loner Allegations, & the Pros and Cons of Nonchalance
﷽ ☺︎ One time, I got into a car accident. Ever since then, I’ve used that incident as an excuse to not even hear the word car breathed around me by ANYONE. Now, you might be wondering: Whaaatttt??? Why would you do that? Aren’t cars like… useful? And to that, dear reader, I’d respond: NO! I mean,…
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On Being Perceived, the Embarrassing Feeling of Being Human, & r/MuslimGirlWriter
﷽ ☺︎ I hate putting myself out there. Not only is it petrifying to do, I find it also quite annoying and cringey. Nevertheless, this is something that must be done, unfortunately. To live is to be seen, or so the great mike wizowski said. UUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!! I’m so annoyed by the fact that I have…
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The Positives, The Negatives, & The Beauty of Existing
﷽ ☺︎ These days, I have zero energy for life. I also hate waking up early. I haven’t been praying fajr on time. My day starts around noon, or after duhr, whichever comes first. I go to sleep when it’s a little before fajr time, so I get my eight hours of sleep throughout the…
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On Perfectionism, Shirking Help from Others, & My Fake Fear of People
﷽ ☺︎ When did my worrying of how others perceive me start? In high school? Maybe even before that? I’m not exactly sure when this anxiousness started. I’m trying to remember if this trait of mine developed early on in life, or if it happened later in my adolescence. Either way, it’s here. It’s here…