I don’t think my life has been the easiest to get through. But life is indeed hard for some people. God gives the hardest battles to his strongest soldiers. I’m actually glad that I’ve toughed it out for as long as I have; I feel that I might have paid off all my spiritual dues,…
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If I ever go back to school—if I ever go back to college, if I ever decide to go back to the ‘formal education’ thing; if i ever continue my education by expanding on my original discipline, or by taking on a different discipline//area of focus—I will probably go for a focus in drawing and…
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Why do I feel I need emotional comfort and security? I had almost died of loneliness one time in 2015, when I was alone in my family’s townhouse for about three weeks—my sibling and mother had went overseas to the UAE, where dad was working at the time; it was something of a necessary trip…
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RCE 4194: Interpersonal Effectiveness Self-Coaching Journaling Assignment #3 Instructions: This time, I’d like your self-coaching journal to take the form of a 1500-word letter to yourself plus a P.S. paragraph to me. Once again, please take the time to write this assignment thoughtfully and with some depth. Only you and I will see your answers…
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It’s the third day of Ramadan, 2022. May allah swt accept all of our prayers during this blessed month. May he give strength to the ummah and to all humanity; insha Allah everything will be ok. I don’t really think that I was supposed to be as stagnant as I have been, in my life.…
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I think I’m going to use all of the slights, the insults, the abuse, and the contempt/hatred I received from other people throughout the course of my life, I’m gonna use it to focus more on serving my community via the kinds of work I like to do; I’m gonna use it for strengthening my…
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Evenings—red, rose-colored, pink—often pacify people into forgetting their suffering. The sun half gone and the sound of water running its course through a stream, river, creek—lead people into a trance. They’ll be completely enraptured, and then they’ll see cruelty and inexcusable pain, again. Then they’ll see the moss on a tree and become entranced, again. They’ll be entranced, and…
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Bodies of Water Bodies of water are blueish-green, clear blue, dark blue holy sites. But is there enough purpose and meaning in that? A body of water trapped in an indifferent universe must justify its own existence, just like a self-conscious sacred spot must ask itself “why am I here?” Being a refuge for others…
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Maybe my quietude, my reading habit, my journaling, my attempts at published creative writing, and my meditation and prayers, are enough to see me through. They’re enough to last me for the rest of my life. Maybe I don’t need other people—I don’t need approval, acceptance, popularity, or even close friends. Nor do I need…
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Creative Writing 4745/The Sentence: Strategies For Writing. Final Essay/Project. 12/15/2021. College, Career Trajectory: The Concentrated Elements of My Likes And Interests. I’m Trying To Attain An Undiluted Formula; One Not Diluted With Unessential Or Weakening Agents Which Will Reduce Its Potency. I don’t get the third chapter of my math textbook, and it’s frustrating because…
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