mental-health
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It’s been 15 days since herpes zoster—shingles—hit me, and I can barely put into words what it feels like. My body feels like it’s on fire, my skin crawls with blisters, and my nerves scream every moment of the day. Medicine and cold packs numb me for a while, but as soon as their effect…
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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou A few days ago, I attended a seminar. It was supposed to be just another routine event—professionals gathering to exchange ideas, nodding through keynote speeches, networking over lukewarm coffee. I didn’t expect anything transformative. But then I met her. She was…
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“The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi I have personally felt as I grew through my 30s, 40s, and now moving to 50s, that our experiences, behaviours, and expectations of care change as…
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“What nearly broke us becomes a light for someone else, if we’re brave enough to share.” In this journey of mine called life, I have faced many challenges today I will share one which I am proud to overcome. In the past, I used to be terrified of something as basic as sleeping, or an…
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(WAIT is exactly that. Not repression. Not denial. But a gentle pause with awareness.) As most of you know , that I usually share my own experiences and thoughts in my Sunday blog, why I share it, is because I feel that, as I feel, so would be many around me be feeling. Feeling to…
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I have spent the last 20 years living and working in a world that, for the most part, didn’t look or sound like me. In a culture that valued men, I was a woman who was strong, quick, nimble, and constantly alert. Somewhere along the line, I forgot that I am not a guy as…
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I’ve always been someone who knew her limits. Whether it was in emotions, words, or wine—I believed in moderation. For years, a glass or two of wine was just that: a quiet celebration, a moment of lightness shared with a friend or enjoyed in solitude. Never more, never less. But then came that Sunday. A…
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I was sitting with a friend last week, and she asked me to simply listen to her. Being a good friend, I did exactly that, and we ended up finishing a bottle of wine together. People think that around the age of forty, life should be steady, predictable, and possibly even tranquil. However, nobody can…
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“हर किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता,किसी को दो गज़ ज़मीन, किसी को खुला आसमां नहीं मिलता।” (lines by Nida Fazli) They often echo in my head like a soft reminder — a truth we all live but seldom express. I’ve lived a life that, on the surface, might seem “settled.” I have a roof…
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Setbacks have a way of making us shrink into comfort zones that seem safe but are, in reality, prisons of fear. I know this because I lived it. When I first entered the workforce, I was ambitious, driven, and highly competent. My discipline and resilience set me apart, yet I constantly found myself being overshadowed…
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