Zaid Ismail's Blog, page 46
October 6, 2020
Who are you?
No matter what you do in life, you are always either a benefit or a burden to those around you. Your presence or contribution either uplifts them, or weighs them down. If you’re not aware of the impact that you have on others, you’ll unwittingly undermine the very goals that you hope to achieve in …
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October 4, 2020
The balance of happiness
Without meaning to, life can become a trading exercise in which we give something with the expectation of receiving something else in return. That’s when it gets complicated. When the assumptions of one or both becomes entangled in the belief that happiness lies in a like-for-like exchange of sentiment or gifts, or perhaps effort. Sometimes, …
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October 1, 2020
The gratitude paradox
Gratitude is a result of appreciating the absence of something. That absence doesn’t have to be experienced, it can also be observed. All that is needed is an event or incident that inspires the realisation of what life would be like without the value that we obtain from something. Occasionally it’s from someone. It is …
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A brain dump
My inclination to write within the context of a universal experience feels insincere and superficial at times. To want to write at all feels like a self indulgent rant or feathering of my own cap. I’ve abandoned more manuscripts and drafts of old manuscripts these past few weeks than I have all my life. The …
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September 30, 2020
Understanding vs Judgement
There are two types of people in this world. Those who appreciate our efforts for trying to achieve good things. And those who ignore our efforts and judge us for failing. The ones who appreciate the effort recognise their own path towards growth, and empathise with the struggle and aspirations of others. This inspires them …
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September 27, 2020
Who defines you?
It’s easy to lose ourselves to the outcomes of our lives. It’s easy to convince ourselves that our achievements, rather than our efforts, are a true reflection of the value we hold within. It’s a dance with fate that often destroys hope and replaces it with complacency. In a world saturated with the ungrateful and …
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September 26, 2020
A gentle neglect
It is better to die of violence, swift and decisive, than to die of a gentle neglect, slow and painful. The violent episode holds the promise of a quickened relief from the anguish of life, while being abandoned offers a view of our decaying spirit, while tortured by hope. Living with hope is a curse …
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September 24, 2020
A life beyond being
Without experiencing the joy of living, life will remain a dutiful encounter. Similarly, without experiencing the sweetness of true love, love will feel like a need to serve and to be served. It is only in connecting with an experience beyond what we imagined to be the limits of what is possible, that we begin …
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September 23, 2020
Sadly depressed
Depression sets in when we look for signs of hope in those things that are important to us, but find none. It doesn’t mean that there is no hope for anything in our life. It just means that what we choose as a defining relationship or experience to reflect our significance provides us with no …
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September 22, 2020
Hopeless dreams
A dream without hope taunts us more than it comforts us. It teases us with its distraction while we indulge in it, but reminds us that we believe we’re unworthy of it when we cast our gaze once more towards reality. When we believe in our dream, we’ll find the signs and the opportunities to …
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