Here’s My Advice: Take It Or Leave It.
So next time someone approaches you for advice, check your intention. Ask yourself: will I feel insulted if she doesn’t take it?
So next time someone approaches you for advice, check your intention. Ask yourself: will I feel insulted if she doesn’t take it?
You don’t have to do anything by a certain time. Let the old aunties pushing you to get married because all your agemates are already married with kids let them know that your time is governed by Allah’s Will.
It is never too late to change your story, to shrug off the labels you have given yourself: you are only what you say to yourself you are.
Letting go means you are no longer in charge and not being in charge can leave you scared, vulnerable and uncertain. And who wants that?
What would it be like, I wonder? to do over, start afresh, begin anew? Pack up, leave and land where
I get to choose. We all get to choose. Even in times of dire circumstances we get to choose.
Having a cat in a house full of pigeons wasn’t going to be a very smart idea and I doubt Junior would have looked kindly on his little ones being on the lunch menu.
I saw a man in the street Bird nest hair, half clothed Dirty, bare of feet. Knelt upon a puddle
Growing up in the late 80s it wasn’t unusual to have four out of seven nights when we had to make do with candles and kerosene ‘kandili’.
I find as women we are the most judgemental to our own.
We smile haughtily, shake our heads and tut tut at our sisters for not being ‘up to standard’.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow I will go see her To myself I say Tomorrow I will start that task I have another
Making the world a better place doesn’t even have to involve partitions, protests or punches