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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.

  • Why is Racism even a Thing?

    ©Kulsoom Abid

    I was into my routine “late-night-overthinking” when I realized that sometimes I don’t understand why “Racism” is even a thing?


    I mean it’s like saying white flowers are beautiful because they are white and purple or blue ones are ugly because they are purple or blue.


    At the end of the day, they all are flowers. They all are beautiful.
    Imagine if the World had only white or yellow flowers… Now imagine the world with only red or purple or blue flowers…?
    There will be no variety in gardens and bouquets, everything will look the same.

    Let’s look at it in this way.

    When we make a painting, we colour it the way we want to, we use the colours we think will look good on the object and we go deep down into our creativity and imagination to come up with what we desire for. And when we are done, we don’t care what others think, we love our painting because it is ours it is purely our creativity.

    Now, think of us (the people in the world) as paintings and think of God as an artist. He painted us this way, he painted the flowers this way because he wanted to. It’s his creativity and he loves us he is proud of us for the way we are. In the same way, we would have been of something we created.

    Purple and white flowers look more beautiful together than separately, whether in the Garden (normal life, local places and society) or in the Bouquet (high ranking jobs, prestigious sectors and in the decision making bodies). Understand that. Because we won’t like the future generations to think we were stupid to not understand such simple things, because the world will always be a colourful place, whether you like it or not because the Creator likes it this way.

    I would love to know your views, reviews and suggestions on the topic and my blog too. Feel free to comment below.

    Thank you for reading.