Zaid Ismail's Blog, page 52
June 25, 2020
Empathise
Empathy is expressed when we desire for others what we wish to have for ourselves. Sometimes, it’s something we have, and we hope that others will be able to enjoy the same value and benefit that we enjoy from it. Sometimes, it’s what we don’t have, yet we hope that we may be able to […]
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June 24, 2020
Invest purposefully in your life
Invest in creating the life that you want, rather than escaping the life that you don’t want. It might sound obvious, but take a breather and consider what drives your choices. Are you driven by the need to avoid unpleasant encounters in your life? Or are you driven by the need to create encounters that […]
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A Brain Dump
The short posts don’t allow for a meaningful purge of what rumbles inside my head. And there’s a lot of rumbling this morning. Having finally published my novel, the reactions I’ve noted along with the assumptions that people make about my reasons for doing so, are entertaining. I’ve always taken a morbid pleasure from watching […]
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June 22, 2020
The understanding seeker
Seek to understand, so that you may be able to accept the events of your life with peace, rather than feeling compelled to let go with bitterness. It’s the inclination to want to be heard that denies us peace when we’re not heard. Or to want to be acknowledged when we are dismissed. Rather than […]
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June 21, 2020
To be loved…
Love, without understanding, is mere infatuation. To love, is to see the strength that created such beauty, not just to admire the beauty. To love, is to caress the scar with a gentleness that honours the pain that caused it. To love, is to see the pain that sometimes distorts the beauty, without devaluing the […]
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Happy Father’s Day
Father’s day. It might be one day of the year for others, but for father’s, every day is father’s day. For those father’s who had to figure it out by themselves. For those who are prevented from being fathers. For those who think that they’re not enough. And of course, for those women who had […]
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June 20, 2020
Exhale. Peace is within reach.
Wisdom is the re-finding of innocence. We’re born innocent, but then life happens. Almost imperceptibly, our innocence wanes, and our disappointment in life replaces it. Focused on remedying our justified gripes with this world, we lose sight of our innocence that once brought us peace. Our life then becomes a struggle to regain that peace, […]
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June 17, 2020
Your perspective is your choice
Perspective is a choice, not an inheritance. Improve your awareness of why you believe what you believe, and it will be possible to consciously choose what resonates with your personal value system, and discarding what doesn’t. When we lose sight of why we hold the perspectives that we do, and those perspectives create a conflict […]
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June 15, 2020
Don’t let fear win
If you’ve been raised on a diet of fear and compliance, it is inevitable that your choices will reflect your fears, and not your dreams Fear destroys hope and replaces it with futility. In the face of futility, we resort to compliance, because compliance provides us with familiarity. Familiarity tethers us to rituals, traditions, and […]
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Tears
Tears hold no value if left to dry on their own. It’s the gentle touch that wipes it away That fulfils its yearning Be gentle with yourself, beloved The world mocks the extraordinary Because ordinary is safer for meek souls (a snip of things to come in my new novel, Taqdeer, A Dance With Destiny) […]
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