Subscribe to the "Letters to the Brave"
Photo: khwaja.wordpress.com For the past three days we've been sitting in the same place inside the school premises where my daughter was studying. We were seated near a piece of land that was supposed to be a garden, but obviously the place has not been visited by...
How do you begin to forgive the people who gave you countless nights of psychological and emotional torture? How can you forgive people who are not even sorry about what they did? I still choke every time I say the Lord's Prayer and get to the part "as we forgive...
Define happiness? Webster define it as "a state of well-being and contentment". Yesterday, I saw a Facebook post from a cousin, which was about happiness and finding your purpose or finding a meaning to your life. It was an old post from Emily Esfahani Smith on The...
We dream big dreams, but then there are also things that we wanted to do, but never really thought of doing it because it isn't really a dream as big as the rest. These are things that we wish we could do, but do not really worked so hard for it, but the longing is in...
“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.” ― Linda Hogan Battle scars. These words hit me big time when I saw on the news recently about how women are trying to change the concept of...
Last week, over at the Blogger's Bazaar, where I finally get to meet two of the bloggers whose fashion blogs I follow, An Apple A Day and Tastes Like Coke, I felt so overwhelmed seeing and meeting them both. I mentioned before that I cannot write anything about...
I always thought that when you become a mother or a wife for that matter, you should put your family's needs above or before yours always. Meaning, you have to take the backseat and you put your dreams for yourself on hold. I thought that dreaming for yourself was in...
Once in our lifetime, we get to the point of feeling uncertain in any aspect of our life, worse, in every aspect of it. I always use my being human as an excuse to feel negative about some things. But, I know I can’t blame it all on human nature because it is our soul...
Today, I stumbled upon a blog that inspired me a lot. I was just going through some stuff on Facebook, when I saw a link to her blog, Thoughts. Stories.Life. Owned by @Sarah Centrella, a woman who have also journeyed through so much to achieve the things she is...
My previous post was about me losing my purpose and losing myself in the things that I do now that I think doesn't serve my purpose anymore. I did talk to my heart and listened and it told me that when things go wrong for you and when you think you are losing your...
"Only when you listen with both head and heart and listen to what you feel to be honest and true will you have a clear sense of complete sense of real direction in life."- Sonia Choquette Very strong and inspiring words from an inspiring woman. Today, I feel as empty...
Soul mates. Strong words for those who are in the quest for true love. What is a soulmate and how do you find the one? Generally, soul mates need not to be romantically involved with each other. There are people whom you can consider your soul mate. But for me,...