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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The value of values
One of the paths to insanity is to try to reason around someone else’s actions or behaviour by assuming that their value system is the same as yours. This includes people who come from the same culture, tradition, ethnicity, and even family as you do. Our value system may be informed by a common framework…
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Yearning for a simple life
Life is simple, but it’s not easy. It becomes complicated when we look for the easy way out. Doing the right thing is often complicated by our concern for the consequences with those around us. The greater our emphasis on those consequences, the more complicated life becomes because we have that much more to consider…
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Judge me fairly
How often do we build pedestals for people and then judge them for sitting on it? Judgement is inevitable. It’s how we make sense of our world. But are we aware of the basis of our judgement? When we judge anyone or anything, it’s based on our past experiences with troubled souls, and not on…
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Only you
“I’ve been incompatible with anyone else since I met you.” Sometimes, without warning, someone enters your life and challenges every assumption you ever made about what’s possible. What you thought you deserved was limited to what you were capable of achieving up to that point, and maybe just a quiet desire to acquire some peace…
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The beauty of perfection
The beauty of perfection escapes the bitter heart. Bitterness is the toxin that we hold on to after we experience a betrayal of our trust in another. Sometimes that trust is so dear, that we hold on to the poison of its mishandling to protect ourselves from ever being vulnerable to such hurt again. Sadly,…
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Allow healing to begin
Don’t wait for someone to speak of your pain before you allow your wounds to heal. Your wounds will fester and taint everything around you as you look for reason to feel appreciated for the struggle that you have endured, or may still be enduring. You may even convince yourself that your struggle is important…
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For the love of peace
The night is only as peaceful as the day’s indulgence, and the day’s indulgence is only as focused as the reflections of the night. What we court in quiet moments reflects our beliefs, but what we pursue in our efforts with others reflects our convictions. When the two are aligned, sleep becomes a spiritual experience,…
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Tomorrow is not promised
Too often we remind others that tomorrow is not guaranteed, yet we live our lives as if we have all the time in the world to make that next big decision, or to do right by others. If tomorrow is not guaranteed, neither is your next breath. When our thoughts about life remain philosophy, and…