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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Living with hope is infinitely better than living with expectation. When I live with expectation, I erroneously convince myself that I’m entitled to so much. When I expect things from people, I assume that I’m significant enough to have such an expectation. Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. Maybe they just owe me because of…
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hello darkness my old friend…
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This is completely out of character for me, but I just need a hug, or more accurately, I need to give a hug that is hugely appreciated and reciprocated…the enshrouding, embracing, enveloping kind of hug…no words, no groping, no kissing…just a deep embrace that melts one soul to another without any concern for the physical…
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Sometimes when I look at an amazing photo of a beautiful landscape, I feel disappointed rather than inspired, because it reminds me of so many moments when I was so busy trying to capture the beauty in a photo to share with others, that the enormity of the moment escaped me completely. So the beauty…
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I just realised that one of my greatest regrets in life will probably not be the intense betrayals, or the hurt and pain caused by loved ones, but rather the fact that my family will probably never know this side of me in my lifetime. The side that I show to the world in my…
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howfreeitis: I try so hard to recall the location of that time:I was lost, you were high; something sweet and sublime.Back when I used to think every look on your faceWas some confirmation of a feeling or a place.We had playful arguments over theodicy, With underlying remnants of hypocritical duplicity. You were lying to me.You were lying…
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Fond Memory of School
Math Teacher: You’re the image of perfection Me: *shy smile* Math Teacher: But just the image Me: *thinking f*** you!* Me: *shy smile*
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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Lewis Mumford (via quotestuff)