my 100 reasons for shukar-guzari (on-going) 1) the insane miracle of finding friends of your heart on the internet. 2) playlists that you randomly find in a cold night that take you away from all your suffering for some time. 3) people who write stories that explore the deeper layers…

I love the Urdu script. And the colour yellow. And the time just before the dawn. Pink skies. Floofly clouds. And breezy, starry nights. I love sunflowers and Aliceʼs Adventures in Wonderland. And pens that write smoothly. I love the English language and how poetic Van Goghʼs qoutes sound in it. Kafkaʼs exquisite descriptions of his never-ending sufferings. Piles of unread books. And people who are effortlessly themselves.

i hate forgetting that i grew up in a house lined with sunflowers; with tall trees i was always eager to climb, and swings that hosted every kid in our lane. i hate it when the bitter aftertaste of endings and separations; takes away from me the joyous fairs i…

Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you It was awfully quiet in the beginning. Or I found it to be that way because I was so not in the mood to sit in the realization of it to be the last day just yet. Mainly, because I had spent…

alternative title: climb that rainbow & an apology in advance to the people who will read this.

The panic monster is having a full-on party in my head right now. I have a hundred thousand errands to run, and I don’t know where to start. What do I do? I finally open my abandoned laptop to listen to all those smart fellas who are never low on…

I was genuinely confused during my Amal Orientations. Aside from the fact that I had never thought there could be such immensely polite people out there, I was mind-boggled and to be honest, a little too queasy (a̶n̶d̶ ̶b̶o̶r̶d̶e̶r̶l̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶j̶e̶a̶l̶o̶u̶s̶) about how much they smiled. I was three months into…

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. I have an immense need to understand the world around me, and one thing that helps me do it is figuring it out by writing. …

“Fix something around you and take pictures” I was sitting in my room when I read out the instructions pertaining to this activity for a project at Amal Academy. I patted myself on the back for clearing up my mess, earlier that morning. …