Nida Farid
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The car rolled over the hill, and a hundred shades of green unfolded before her. Her heart and breath stopped. Every part of her body was focused on the view before her. The valley below could be called agricultural land by those without a heart. But there would be very few who could remain unaffected by the sight she beheld. Rows of green corn in varying shades of ripening gradually merged into banana trees. Large patches of lush green grass alternated with the corn fields, brightening the scenery. A muddy red stream cut through the greenery, disappearing into the distance.…
A regular dose of awe is good for our mental health, according to experts. Being in nature has always been known to have therapeutic effects, but awe has a separate therapeutic effect from nature itself. It may be because of the humbling effect of awe. We suddenly realize how tiny we are compared to the vastness of the Creator, his Creation and the Universe. We wonder, if in the grand scheme of things, do we even matter. And that allows us to take ourselves a little less seriously. The things we were stressing over just a few moments ago, seem…
The hermit crab froze. His ivory and orange striped pincers suspended mid-step in the air, as he looked at the crow in front of him. The crow continued poking at the bush in front of her, trying to see if there was a dead branch it could use for her nest. Then she went back to poking at the broken branch she had dug out of the dead creamy corals that had piled up along one side of the beach. When the crow finally flew away, the hermit crab continued on his way along the white sand, his perfectly shaped…
The Need to be Right controls us much more than we realize. It affects us many times a day, making a tiny argument bigger than it needed to be. Suddenly, we are arguing over what the right price of a product is with a shopkeeper. Or we are debating the right way to clean the dishes with our spouse and children. AT work, we feel threatened when our colleague says something in a presentation that questioned a statement we made earlier. And then we walk away from those arguments with our heart racing and our stress levels elevated. It takes…
