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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Are you grateful for you?
Trying is something that you do when you’re unsure of your ability to do it. Trying relates to the process of developing the skills or understanding to accomplish something, and not to the outcome itself. When we try to do something, it means that we don’t believe that we’re capable of doing it yet. Otherwise,…
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A brain dump
Optimism is not always enough. It helps, but sometimes, I just want things to go easy for a bit. If I knew that a single moment of trusting someone could lead to a lifetime of struggle, I would not have been so trusting, or at least not so generous with my trust. But spilled milk…
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Empty apologies
“Hey, I apologised. If you don’t accept my apology, that’s your problem, not mine.” Did someone say this to you after offending you or treating you badly? Maybe you felt you had reason to say it to someone else that rejected your apology? The moment we demand that our apology must be enough, we’re not…
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We all want to be enough
We all need to feel like we’re enough… Enough to comfort those we love and care for… Enough to inspire them to rise above their trials… Enough to instil hope in them when they feel deflated… And more. Most importantly, we prevent those who care for us from being all this to us when we’re…
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Whose war are you fighting?
When someone is at war within themselves, it’s unlikely that they will realise it. If you’re not aware of the impact that they have on you, you’ll think that their frustration or anger is directed at you, when it’s really just their need to release the tension that they feel within. Let the above cycle…
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Parents owning it
When we find cause for concern about a specific generation of humans, we must look to the generation before them for answers if we hope to address more than the symptoms of what is wrong. None of us raised ourselves. Similarly, the troubled youth and many adults that we see struggling to make a good…
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Respond with poetry
Responding in kind to the trials of life only gives those trials more power. Instead, be the eternal romantic. Look for the starry sky in the darkness, or the glow of the sunshine behind those grey clouds. Romance is not about sharing a moment with another. Romance is about embracing a moment for yourself despite…
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Selfish concern
I don’t like labels, but this is the equivalent of toxic positivity, where we try to be positive while diminishing the experience of the one experiencing difficulties. I once saw someone experiencing a breakdown at the side of the road. Stuck in the middle of nowhere, oil running out of their engine, it was obvious…