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  • Giving Up

    Photographer : ©Kulsoom Abid

    Giving up is like running away from your problems. People say give up if you can’t get what you want and try something else. But I say never give up.

    Don’t listen to your brain because it will always reason with you. It will always make you doubt yourself with tons of “what if”, “but”, “maybe” etc.

    Just ask your heart this simple question, “how much this matters to me? ” or you can try “how much do I love this? ”

    It can be anything. It can be a person, it can be a hobby you want to pursue as a career, it can be any goal you want to achieve, it can be a dream you want to fulfil, it can literally be anything.

    Your heart will give you the true and unbiased answer of what you really want to do. And if your heart says “it matters to me alot” or “I love it so much”. Then my dear friend I request you not to give up.

    I won’t lie to you, it will be extremely difficult and there will be times when you will doubt your decision and sometimes you will think that people were right and you’ll consider giving up. And trust me at that time giving up will be the easiest and safest option. But please don’t.

    We have one life. We live only once. And everything, every single thing we truly love is worth the hard work, is worth trying.

    You will have to deal with millions of “maybe this is not the right time”, “maybe this is not the right place” and “what will people think about me”.

    So here’s a friendly reminder, you are the one who is going to decide the right time and the right place. I do believe in God and I believe God always helps the people who help themselves. Write your own story, believe in your aim, in yourself and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

    And “people” will say whatever they want to say. Trust me it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with themselves. Everyone has to face critics in their journey. Use them as your motivation. Just remember that after quitting because of “what will people say/think about me” , one day when you will be regretting this whole decision making process and the outcome, those “people” will be nowhere to console you. All you will ever hear them say will be “ you shouldn’t have given up if you loved it so much”.

    We are humans, we are hypocrites don’t listen to us. Listen to your inner voice and your heart. We will make you think you are a fool trying to fulfil your dreams but never listen to us. Because all we want is to pull you down to where we are and make you like ourselves, so do yourself a favour and don’t listen to us.

    If you are a bird or a fish and you listen to a giraffe or a plant, then just imagine what you’ll end up doing. Or let’s see it this way, if you are birds and are of same breed but u have the ability to fly slightly higher than the others but you listen to them and hence fly at the same level as them. You are clearly doing injustice to yourself.

    So I request you, don’t give up . We live once. Let’s spend it doing what makes us happy.

    Think about it. Your view, reviews, suggestions and criticisms are most welcomed. Feel free to share it with someone you know needs this right now. Let’s tell each other that not all humans are bad and we can do good things too, we can support and motivate too.

    Thank you for reading.

  • I Write…

    Picture by: @_miss_abid_ Instagram page

    I write when I’m upset,

    I write when I’m broken.

    I write when I have nowhere else to go.

    I write when that’s the only thing I want to do.

    I write when I have to one to talk to,

    I write when my soul asks me to.

    I write when I’m happy.

    I write when words pull me towards them,

    I write when my thoughts make me overwhelmed.

    I write when my pen wants to dance,

    I write when my feelings are the song.

    I write when my soul wants to fly high in the sky,

    I write when my words begin to cry.

    I write when my heart wants to dive deep into the sea,

    I write when I want to show what I see.

    I write when the paper pleads,

    I write when my pen wants to bleed.

    I write for the pain that’s biting,

    I write for the sake of writing.

    -©Kulsoom Abid

    This was an original by me. I hope you like it. Your views and reviews are most welcomed. Feel free to comment below.

    Thank you for reading.

  • Don’t Kill Yourself Today

    Poem source: tumble.com

    Don’t kill yourself today

    Because your Netflix trial still has a week left

    Don’t kill yourself today

    Because no one else will finish off the chicken in the fridge

    Don’t kill yourself today

    Because I know for a fact that Starbucks is releasing a new Frappuccino sometime next month

    Yes, your mother will miss you

    Yes your bully will make a sappy Facebook post about how what a wonderful person you were

    And yes

    Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem

    You know that

    You’ve known that

    Everyone and anyone has been shoving that down your throat since they first learned what the word suicide meant

    So don’t kill yourself

    Until you finish your shampoo and conditioner at the same time

    Don’t kill yourself

    Until Doctor Who is finally cancelled

    Don’t kill yourself

    Until you tell someone your best pasta recipe 

    Don’t kill yourself 

    Because I will keep coming up with reasons for you not to

    And I need you

    To hear all of them

    Don’t kill yourself

    I love you

    You’re important

    It’s a bad day

    Not a bad life

    There is more to this

    The world will keep spinning on its axis without you

    But

    Think of all the sunrises you’d miss

    I know this sounds pointless

    But when you’re sitting in front of everything deadly you own

    Revising your goodbyes

    There will be too much darkness 

    To see anything else

    But this is not about seeing anything else

    This is about turning off the lights

    This is about finding the bed instead of the noose

    This is about giving yourself one more day

    Even if it takes ten thousand of those

    One more morning’s

    Until

    “I can’t wait for tomorrow”

    This is about staying alive

    Because there’s gonna be a new Marvel movie

    No one should miss that

    This is about staying alive

    Because the future is coming 

    And it’s ready for you

    I don’ t need you to see it

    I just need you to believe you can make it 

    Until then


    – Hannah Dains

  • My Guilty Pleasure

    Picture by: ©Kulsoom Abid

    Hey people, I’m a book lover!

    This is the first novel I read. The only thought in my mind was, “Novels are BORING!”… But this was my Christmas gift and I love my gifts no matter what. So there I was sitting in my room, opening the first page of this nicely coloured book. (Yes, I judged the book by it’s cover! But what do you expect from a 12year old?)

    Unexpectedly I got lost in the stories. As the tales proceeded, I laughed when the author laughed, I felt sad when he did and I even shed tears when something went bad…Was I in love? Hell yes! I was in love with reading!

    I just love how books, novels, poems and stories take me to a different world. A world that I never knew even existed.

    And since than I have never stopped reading and it has become my very own guilty pleasure.

    Tell me about the first novel you read or any guilty pleasure of yours in the comments.

    Thank you for reading.

    ©K.@bid