Hasnain Shah
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"I write about the little things that shape our big moments—stories that inspire, spark curiosity, and sometimes just make you smile. If you’re here, you probably love words as much as I do—so welcome, and let’s explore together."
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When the Smallest Decision Changed My Entire Life
When the Smallest Decision Changed My Entire Life By Hasnain Shah I used to believe that life’s biggest changes came from big moments—graduations, proposals, job offers, disasters, miracles. The cinematic stuff. The kinds of events we remember by date, by outfit, by the weather in the sky. I didn’t yet understand that sometimes your world tilts on a Tuesday afternoon when you make a choice so small that you don’t even notice its weight until much later, when everything has already changed.
By Hasnain Shah2 months ago in Humans
The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Happiness
The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Happiness By Hasnain Shah We are all chasing it. Some of us call it success, others call it peace. For most, it’s a word we whisper to ourselves late at night when the house is quiet and the phone stops glowing. Happiness. The word rolls easily off the tongue, like something light and effortless. But we don’t really know what it means anymore.
By Hasnain Shah2 months ago in Psyche
The Girl Who Forgot How to Sleep
The Girl Who Forgot How to Sleep By Hasnain Shah The first night it happened, Mira thought it was just exhaustion. She had fallen asleep on her couch after a long shift at the café, the television humming faintly in the background. But when she opened her eyes again, she wasn’t in her living room. She was standing in a wheat field glowing silver under the moon, the air too sharp and too perfect to be real. A child ran past her, laughing, a kite trailing behind him in impossible loops that cut across the stars.
By Hasnain Shah2 months ago in Fiction
Things I Learned From Deleting My Phone for a Month
Things I Learned From Deleting My Phone for a Month By Hasnain Shah It started with a twitch. Not in my eye, but in my thumb — a restless, automatic flick that reached for something that wasn’t there. I had just deleted every app from my phone. Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube — gone. Even the email icon, that small blue square of perpetual anxiety, had been exiled.
By Hasnain Shah2 months ago in Lifehack
Room 13B
Room 13B By Hasnain Shah When Julia arrived at the old brick townhouse just outside Boston, she was already regretting her decision to book an Airbnb instead of a hotel. The listing photos had shown a warm, antique charm — mahogany floors, a vintage armoire, and a cozy bay window looking out over the Charles River. But the actual place felt… off.
By Hasnain Shah3 months ago in Horror
The Planet That Dreamed of Humans
🌍 The Planet That Dreamed of Humans By Hasnain Shah For four billion years, I had been silent. Silent as oceans churned and cooled, silent as mountains rose and crumbled back into dust. My core burned with quiet purpose, my skies swirled with storms of light and color. I was alive in the way all worlds are alive — through motion, gravity, and the gentle pulse of magma beneath my crust. But I was not aware. Not until they arrived.
By Hasnain Shah3 months ago in Fiction
The People We Almost Loved
The People We Almost Loved By [Hasnain Shah] You never think much about the ones you almost loved. Not at first. They blur into the digital fog — faces you swiped left or right on, messages that fizzled into nothing, names that sounded perfect until silence took them.
By Hasnain Shah3 months ago in Fiction
Books That Healed Me
Books That Healed Me By Hasnain Shah There are moments in life when words are the only medicine that works. Not the words spoken by friends who mean well, not even the words I whisper to myself in the mirror—but the quiet, printed words that wait patiently between two covers, ready to catch you when you fall.
By Hasnain Shah3 months ago in BookClub
