Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com
Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.
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Spent one third of my life sleeping, another third working, and the other third was wasted believing in people.
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Scenes of Sadness (c) Cynically Jaded South Africa
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Sometimes, like right now, I stare at my Tumblr dashboard and realise that it’s a painful reflection of the emptiness of my life. It’s supposed to be an escape, an outlet, a form of creative expression or mental ejaculation, but instead it only reinforces the very same realisations that I try to ignore. I’m reminded…
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That sad moment when people you admired turn out to be insincere shallow douche bags
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I pray that I live to see the day when psychiatrists will be out of business, and psychologists will realise that their accumulated knowledge was intended to result in a greater contribution than just “How does that make you feel?”
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curiositywillkill: If I walk on broken roots, and you on two feet, am I not to be walking because I do not walk like men do? If I stand with my roots in the ground, and you with your two feet above soil, am I not to be standing because I do not stand like…
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On this day of Jumu’ah it will be my second Friday in which I will deliberately avoid attending salaah at my local masjid, and instead, go to another not far from me because it is one of the few mosques in the area that is not embellished with those pagan symbols. I used to be…
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When I was younger I used to be quite the loner, and still am like that on most days. I used to go ‘out’ on my own and stay out till late just mingling in crowds where I was the odd one out, or barely being noticed. And it felt that way when I was…