January 2012
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hic habitat felicitas
It’s literally minutes from the New Year and all the past few years play in my mind- the year where I celebrated New Year between two timezones, in a plane a few hours away from Dubai, in new cities, new homes, new schools, new friends.
In just a few minutes a new year shall start and I look back at who I was this past year, and reflect on if this year had helped me change into a better...
December 2011
23 posts
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“We built a tall, tall tower
Towards the sun, towards the sun
Took some words...”
– JOY WILLIAMS - SPEAKING A DEAD LANGUAGE
“Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
– George Washington
Blink
She lies on the floor, wet hair forming unruly curls around her in a halo, lost in her thoughts,
“crazy, obsessive, harsh, cold”, where the only companion awake so late is her own mind eating away at her,
“depressed, bi-polar, weird, freakish” She tugs at the curls, irritated at this realm she remains in, contented at her existence, but lost in translation of...
“After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “You Learn”, trans. Veronica A. Shoffstall (via exhilarating)
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Flirting African
Today at work. This is what happened.
Good looking black dude comes into the store and I state hello. So does he.
“Blah blah blah blah”
“are you somali? You have gorgeous features, just beautiful.
Blah Blah Blah.
O.o
After he said that, he started talking about African homeland and life and so on but all I could think of was,
“Did he just say what I think he...
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Seven years.
7
More than half a decade, less than a decade.
7
A fact that usually contains no great significance, no keen awareness, till the eve of Christmas,
a day in which people celebrate happiness, family and joy,
the same which the thirteen year old had also celebrated,
but the ones that followed were filled with a bitter memory of what could have been and what had been lost.
They...
“She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so...”
– Khaled Hosseini (via mendmyheart)
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Aisha Khan
What confuses me is how people react to news they did not expect to get.
Aisha Khan is safe with her family.
Yes, a lot of services, money and time went into her search but that does not justify the fact that some people are disappointed that nothing had actually happened to her.
It’s better she’s alive, even if she did “fake” it, than for her to be abducted or even...
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It’s two am and I stare at the ceiling,
refusing to look into areas where light and dark meet
for the silvery figure my eyes catch,
in random blinks,
is keeping me awake.
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“If people come together, they can even mend a crack in the sky.”
– Somali proverb (via exhilarating)
Name change
Fairydoodles.tumblr.com is now heredwellshappiness.tumblr.com
Feeling nostalgic for the name I had for a year.
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My little sister.
Sister: (Runs in to room) THERE'S A FIRE BURNING!
Me: OMG WHAT WHERE!?
Sister: It's ..... in my heart.
“Somewhere between fake smile and words they don’t say
only they know the demons...”
– Desmond Watts
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Happiness
Things that make me happy
Random conversations over anything
Ice cream
Color Teal
Curly hair
Mauritius
Charcoal
Pakistan
Bollywood Songs and Dances
Sketches
Buraanbuur
Mum
dSLR
Photography
Blogs
Laughter
Watching people create things
Documentaries
Sunsets
Sunrises
Tapal
The SUN
Night
Moon
Stars
Bodies of water
Wind
Great friends
Earl Grey
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ihopeyoulikegulabjamun asked: Whats your ethnicity?
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I sketched something for the first time in what would be close to four years.
Sounds insignificant.
I’ve become a shadow of who I use to be- a person who dreamed big, who refused to live in the grim reality she faced every day, a person who celebrated the little and the big moments all the same. Drawing, dancing, singing, dreaming, exploring, reading, writing, music, art, English, math,...
