mental-health
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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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Ads and Alarms Are a Deliberate Attack on the Minds of the Masses
﷽ ☺︎ My sleep was disrupted this morning by this annoying sound coming from the phone of my sister who decided to sleep in my room last night. Alarms are aggravating. The unnerving sounds that phone made this morning made me so angry. But I didn’t take it out on her. Her phone went off…
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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 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 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…
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On Living Proactively, Allah as the Source, & Thoughts on Work
﷽ ☺︎ I sometimes wonder how life would’ve turned out for me if I made one small change/decision early on. What if I didn’t do that when I was younger? What if I did that instead? Would I be a totally different person, or would I end up being the person I am now? I…
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On Pessimism, Human Worth, & Learning through Adversity
﷽ ☺︎ I hate looking back and reminiscing over the past… mostly because there aren’t that many good memories. What’s amplified in my head is the bad stuff. I don’t think I’m alone in thinking this way. Whatever I remember about my past is not that good. Many people tend to think about the bad stuff. People…