Last night I got into an argument with my 9-year-old. “All my friends are fasting and I am the only one who is not…..Tomorrow I will fast!!”. The Ramzaan environment in his school is pretty much the same as mine growing up back in Pakistan. His school is a global village with people from countries like Pakistan, India, […]
As I close my eyes it all comes running back to me. A memory soo painful yet deeply etched in me for ever. It might have been an ordinary day for you but for me it was special. The happiness was so big that it was becoming impossible to contain it. Am I dreaming? Is […]
You have lost your job….had a miscarriage….received a life threatening health diagnosis or have lost a loved one. The last thing you want to hear is “It could have been worse” . Seriously?? More Worse?? At that moment these words are pinching, killing . When the pain is new it hurts, it hurts super bad. […]
Our lives are already so busy that the time we get to unwind and de-stress, we are loosing it to technology. I myself am a victim. There are soo many days when I can actually go to sleep by 9 but “one last Facebook post”, “one last twitter update”, “just 5 mins of web surfing” […]