[islamicrays]

Being alone doesn't mean being lonely. Sometimes due to circumstances you end up being alone and many people immediately feel lonely when no one is around them.

It's critical to enjoy your time alone and not feel restless.

I have always cherished my time alone.

It allows me to...

Reflect

Refuel

Recharge

When you can spend time by yourself without using your phone or watching anything it tells me that you're at peace with yourself.

It may seem hard at first because we are trained to look for stimulation, but with practice you can use the time to cultivate gratitude, reflect on your life and aspire for the future.

Take small steps to gain the maturity to spend time alone and feel peaceful.

Instead of grabbing your phone when you're alone do the following:

1. Deep breathing

2. Write 5 things you're grateful for

3. Reflect on your goals

4. Do thikr (remembrance) with reflections

5. Read a book

6. Go for a walk

7. Do a hobby you enjoy

8. Connect with the Quran

Today I had the opportunity to go for a bike ride alone and I felt so peaceful Alhamdulillah. I didn't feel lonely because it was my time to reflect and refuel mashaAllah.

So whether you're alone because of your circumstances or you choose to spend time alone, cherish the time and don't feel sad about it.

Make the most of your time alone and feel the peace!

-Haleh Banani

[214214214214]

u gotta be mature enough to understand that u also have some toxic traits, it’s not always the other person.

[done]

hate when i go out in public and the public is there

[julaibib]

Marriage in Islam is very simplistic, it is society and and culture which has made it into something very complicated.

[sterngespraeche]

i want every child to have a happy, loving and safe childhood that they don’t have to recover from

[arcticbubbles]

do you ever talk to yourself but in your second language

[pr1nceshawn]

The Stages of Not Leaving Your Apartment.

[carldangerous]

I FEEL VICTIMIZED

[sweetpearportal]

I low-key thought this was a post about quarantine…

[time-and-space-penguin]

Me too, lol! But then I realized it was made in 2017 and I was like ???

[feral-flower-child]

Wait it wasn’t about the quarantine???

[seaoflove]

a long time ago i learned that a big part of your life needs to be undocumented and just simply enjoyed in the present. you don’t need to post a picture of the book your reading for it to be good. you don’t need to have a pic of you posing before the sea as proof that u had a good trip. there’s a very fine line between manufacturing moments for future nostalgia and honoring happy experiences by commemorating them into art. and it’s all about intention: do i want to take a picture because it would look good on ig or do i want to take a picture because i do not want to forget how insanely happy i am right now? or, preferably, do i even need to take a picture at all?

[micdotcom]

This white woman’s shocking account of police brutality reveals the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement

Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.

[lanie-love09]

The public needs to hear more stories like this as well.

[lennybaby2]

Wow. This is horrifying.

[the-sarkai]

Cops are drunk on power. Add any ism to that, you have a bunch of abusive, gun wielding, trained to kill, non empathetic, killers running around.

[alexandra-erin]

This woman got hauled out of a window, beaten, stripped, tortured, and humiliated, and she still is able to understand how white privilege saved her life.

[alphacrone]

i know so many of us have been trained since a young age to be so accommodating as to fear ever expressing an opinion, but as we get older we need to understand that being “accommodating” to the point of total indecisiveness is a very uncomfortable way to go through life, for you AND those around you. it’s ok to have an opinion on something. it’s ok to make a decision. your friends won’t hate you if you’re the one to end the “where do you want to eat” “oh anywhere is fine with me” discussion by suggesting a restaurant. you’re not high maintenance if you say, “noon is more convenient for me” when someone asks you what time you want to hang out. make decisions, have opinions, be part of the planning process, understand that you’re not being inconvenient, you’re just contributing. 

[lizardbby]

listen i love women, i LOVE them. but if u r a feminist & believe that women are capable of anything, u also have to recognize that women are capable of being evil and sadistic and malicious. because the point of feminism is that women are human beings. they are not ethereal beings who can Do No Wrong. women make mistakes and they commit crimes and they hurt people. blindly praising all women for being perfect is actively harmful to people who have been hurt and abused by women and also to women as a group because we are NOT perfect! we are human and that is the whole damn point my dude.

[48bluewaves]

Mykonos, Greece 🇬🇷

[zagreus]

Mama didn’t raise a quitter but she did raise an insecure perfectionist who never finishes anythi

[plutothewitch]

september will be kind. september will be magical. september will bring the missing energy. september will be working towards our goals and self. september will be a month full of growth.

[alittleheartandruh]

Maybe they don’t deserve to know about your heart.

[whatevskies-blog]

sorry i couldn’t hear you over my internal monologue 

[alittleheartandruh]

Maybe they don’t deserve to know about your heart.