IHTISHAM UL HAQ
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"I write to spark thought, challenge comfort, and give quiet voices a louder echo. Stories matter — and I’m here to tell the ones that often go unheard."
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SURELY WITH HARDSHIP COMES EASE
Hardship has a way of arriving uninvited. It walks into our lives without warning, takes a seat at the table, and makes itself comfortable. Sometimes it wears the face of financial struggle, sometimes of illness, heartbreak, failure, or loss. No matter its disguise, it comes with a heaviness that is hard to ignore.
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ5 months ago in Motivation
THE MEASURE OF THE INTELLIGENCE IS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE
Change has always been uncomfortable. It challenges our patterns, disrupts our certainties, and pushes us into territories where answers are not immediate. And yet, to change — willingly, thoughtfully — may be one of the highest signs of intelligence.
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ6 months ago in Education
Educating for Peace, Not Just Success
In a world deeply fractured by conflict, inequality, and division, peace remains a word we admire but rarely practice. It decorates international declarations, appears in school mission statements, and headlines political speeches. But when it comes to the roots of peace — the kind that lives not just in policy but in people — we often overlook the one place it could begin: the classroom.
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ6 months ago in Education
The Urge to Tell the Unspoken
In every society, there exists a threshold — an invisible line that separates what can be said from what must remain hidden. These silences are often inherited, passed down through generations like heirlooms no one asked for. We carry them in our families, in our classrooms, in the pauses between our sentences. And some of us, without quite meaning to, feel the urge to disturb that silence.
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ6 months ago in Confessions
REASON NOT TO WORRY
In a world constantly brimming with alerts, updates, and deadlines, worry has become our default state. We worry about the future, the past, the people we love, the choices we’ve made, the ones we didn’t. We worry about time running out. About saying the wrong thing. About being left behind. And we do it so often that the act of worrying begins to feel like a responsibility — something we must do in order to prove that we care.
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ6 months ago in Motivation
YOU SAID NOTHING THAT SAID ME EVERYTHINHG
In a world loud with opinions, reactions, and never-ending chatter, silence can often be mistaken for emptiness. But silence, in the right moment, can speak louder than any scream — and with more precision than a thousand words. I learned this the hard way. Or maybe the gentle way. It’s still hard to tell.
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ6 months ago in Fiction
Comfortable with uncertainty
The sky had the look of something undecided — neither stormy nor clear. Just… waiting. Anaya stood at the edge of the pier, a worn envelope in her coat pocket and no plan for what came next. Behind her was the life she had always known: spreadsheets, morning routines, polite smiles, predictable weekends. In front of her was the sea, gray and open, echoing the question she had avoided for years: What if everything I built isn't what I wanted?
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ6 months ago in Fiction
DAD, I STILL NEED YOU
The gate squeaked the same way it always had. He paused before pushing it open, staring at the rusted bars like they might hold him back. The yard was overgrown, the grass taller than he remembered, and the old neem tree had lost half its leaves. It had been twelve years since he walked through this place as a son. Now, he walked in as a stranger — and an orphan.
By IHTISHAM UL HAQ6 months ago in Families
