Photos | Zaid Ismail

Taken with my cell phone, in Johannesburg, South Africa. (c) Cynically Jaded - Oct 2012

Patience is faith's companion. When we grow impatient about an outcome, we're either growing frustrated at our inability to influence it to be better, or we're losing faith in achieving it because it is beyond our control. Either way, impatience won't change the reality of it. Decisive action, firm conviction, or both is needed in such circumstances. Just keep doing what you believe is right, that way, even if it doesn't work out, there will be less to regret. #conviction #perseverance #commitment #patience #tenacity #resolve #hope #optimism #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthrecovery #selfworth #selfawareness
I need a long drive on the open road again. I can feel the restlessness stirring within. A need to breathe in freedom, and exhale the toxins of a contaminated society. I remember this storm clearly. It was majestic. This was at sunrise about an hour or two after leaving Cape Town heading back to Johannesburg. #travel #openroadtherapy #solo #soloroadtrip #storms #society #mentalhealth
Let alone arrogance, you harm yourself when you restrain yourself from contributing the good that comes naturally to you. That restraint eventually hardens your heart because it reminds you of the expectation you have a right to from others before you will be willing to do anything for them. That's not who you are. So you end up suppressing the real you until eventually you become bitter and forget who you were to begin with. Don't contribute towards the happiness or ease of others in the hope of getting something in return. That's not virtuous, that's business. #gratitude #appreciation #happiness
Living with hope feeds optimism, while living with expectations breeds entitlement. The entitled are everywhere you look these days. Feeling entitled, even if you have a right to something, contaminates your focus and your sincerity, because when entitlement sets in, everything becomes transactional. Rather than looking at what you are able to contribute, your focus will be on what you deserve first. Hope is what lightens the burdens of failed expectations and replaces it with an optimism grounded in the knowledge that it can always improve. Of all the advice that I've given out over the years, this is by
I have seen the victim mentality destroy more good than any aggressor ever could. Feeling oppressed or victimised is not the same as being oppressed or victimised. And no, just because you feel it doesn't make it true, because more often than not what victims feel in the present moment is a projection of what they experienced in the past. Going through life holding everyone accountable for redressing the pain you may have once experienced will push good people away and attract the kind of people that will help you to sustain that negative mindset making you no better than

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