Ayesha Shanawaz
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I drift into nothingness where random thoughts spark genius (and sometimes weirdness). If you hear something offbeat, it's just my out-of-the-box brain on a detour!
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The Quiet Weight of Birthdays
It’s my birthday. And like every year, I find myself wrapped in a strange haze of celebration and contemplation. Birthdays can be oddly confusing, can’t they? When it’s someone else’s, we throw ourselves into the joy of it—buying gifts, planning surprises, singing loudly, capturing moments. We do everything we can to make them feel special. But when it’s our own day, the experience shifts. We smile, we receive love, we go through the motions… but there’s something else lingering beneath it all.
By Ayesha Shanawaz9 months ago in Humans
Impermeance
What has life truly taught us? Where does it lead us, in the end? We are told to press on, to fight through the battles, to find strength in perseverance. But did we ever truly understand it, or would we have been better off when reality was still an untouchable dream? Those days—those heavy, dark days—felt hopeless to the version of me who lived them. Yet, even then, I was alive with dreams, with the flicker of possibilities. I survived the storm of despair, the weight of a fractured family, and still, I believed in something more.. Like a bird adrift on trembling wings, I wandered—unsure if I’d misplaced my nest, or merely imagined its warmth to begin with.
By Ayesha Shanawaz10 months ago in Journal
