Sofia Khan is Not Obliged

by Ayisha Malik

You should never change is the culmination of all your flaws made necessary: the imperfect sum of an imperfect past, which turned out to be a good thing for someone.

One of the issues about the whole ‘being alone’ stance is not having anyone to share the world’s problems with. A person’s been scooped out of your life and so you speak into a pit of nothingness. Or you don’t speak at all, depending on your tendency towards soliloquy.

God will not be willing with that tone, young man.

Hahaha

What a luxury anything organic is: to take your time; to have the lived experience. To hear what a person has to say about love and say, ‘Yes! I know that feeling. It shattered my soul and it was beautiful . . .’

Oh, his words! Sometimes they’re like tiny splinters, catching at the fabric of my focus.

Fear of rejection isn’t a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming.

“If you’re going to make any decision in life, be fearless about it.” ’

I never realised that the weight of disappointment rests mostly on your heart.

Here’s the thing about faith: just because you’re not a hundred per cent sure about something doesn’t make it wrong. In fact, doubt can be good – it stops you from that head in the clouds scenario, which is exactly when people make mistakes.