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On Unintentional Surprises [a little vignette]

It was a surreal yet beautiful Ramadan month; my hours were rarely unoccupied, so I was waking up early hours to work-from-home and when the evening flipped over, I was at my new comfortable pre-built office chair and studying away using body-doubling. I learned the art of pistachio matchas in an electronic whisk, sometimes with hazelnut butter instead. Throughout the night, I studied with people…

10 Year High School Reunion!!!

This little piece of the internet has become a not-so-subtly disarrayed blog in the world-wide-web statosphere, but I must return for the pure unadulterated joy of providing closure to my graduation piece, now only ten years later. In some ways, the existential part of my soul wondered if I would live this long to tell the tale of revisiting my past; and alhumdulilah I have. This was saved in my…

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Will vulnerability ever stop feeling like someone has punctured a hole in my chest? I feel physically ill, each and every time I take an emotional risk, the congruency of my words circa 2024-5 leaving a scatter of wounds that I told myself was necessary. At least I stitched this one up in time, I tell myself, before I bleed out. The marriage process does this, it seems — and my experience is not…