Aleynah

I wish someone had said, go play. Trek a mountain just because you can. Prioritise your platonic relationships, go an extra mile for a friend. There is no finding time, only making it. In an era of self-created pressure of making all the right decisions, make the wrong ones. Navigate uncertainty without taking it personally.

That person who was once your soulmate, may not be your person forever. That doesn’t make your relationship any less special, because ‘the one’ is made. We build it together.

Media consumption simply does not cut it. If you want to separate yourself intellectually from your peers, develop serious interests and passions, feel calmer and more collected, have deeper, more interesting conversations, and rarely feel bored— you have to read. ( Books, by the way . Not Instagram captions, not lists, not product recommendations ... See more

Eliminate the bad. In other words, don’t suck. The most basic thing you need to do at any job is simply be competent. This isn’t very hard to achieve, because it’s based on not under-achieving. To get where you’re going, you need to start the car in park, not in reverse. Your boss mostly wants to know that when they tell you to do something, you do... See more

I call my mother to ask if the emotions I feel are hereditary. My father is on the line, too, but I don’t dare ask the same question. My mother once told me he was hard on me because he saw too much of himself in me. I think of all the times my father explained my outbursts to my mother, the look of arrogance on his face as I reluctantly admitted h... See more