AS LITERAL AS IT GETS

POV Your friend is talking about this new show she started to watch, she's obviously so excited about it and you appear to be listening. Friend : I sincerely didn't see it coming guyyy R: Huh?  I'm pretty certain we've all being in a situation like this, countless times in fact. Becoming aware that there's in fact a voice within always trying to tell me something feels exactly how it feels to be called back to reality after I've completely zoned out. Now I'm like, "wait! for how long you been there??" The last week of December 2021 was a very emotional one cause it really felt like I received all of the lessons the year has been trying to teach me live and direct during that week and that led me to the utmost realization that to be honest nothing would actually ever happen to me or any human in fact except that you are to pick up significant lessons from it. I'll liken it to a treasure hunt, pick up your clues so you would know whe...

I do not classify myself as a writer, deep down I just have a lot of thoughts that I feel the need to put out there. Originally, I intended blogging about my life outside of religion and what being a Muslim meant to me, finding the basic principle behind every experience and then relating these two things because in the real sense they can't be apart right? It dawned on me that, writing that way would just be an expression of one aspect of my life. The one that wants to teach, impact and literally help you do the thinking so you'd get that behind everything that might seem complicated, there's a very very simple principle at work. I think it's basically first daughter complex😅.  "Wouldn't that make it seem like I've got my life together" , I thought. When in reality I am still trying to make sense of what this life is really all about. We are all out here hustling, struggling, trying to be a daughter/son, brother/sister, friend, partner, s...