Nida Farid
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Category: Mental Wellbeing
Sometimes it feels like nothing’s moving forward. There are a dozen things to be done. And you decided last night which one of those to work on in the morning. But when you wake up, the original debate on which of them to do starts again. I have to continue writing Book 2. I also…
She caught her breath in delight and awe at the sea of blush-white blossoms in front of her. Apple trees covered every inch of the vast orchard, framed by eucalyptus trees around the boundary of the Hashupi Fruit Nursery. Behind the sea of white apple blossoms, and the tall bright-green eucalyptus border, rose the majestic…
Please stop telling boys that “Men Don’t Cry”. When you tell boys that it is not OK to cry, you are instead making them suppress their pain. You are encouraging the rhetoric, even if you don’t use the words, that it is OK for Men to get angry, but is not OK for them to…
What if we stopped doing good in the world? What if we instead focused on doing no harm? As I have seen more and more of the world, the truer the old adage “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” has turned out to be. I realize now that many people do as…
Love does not teach to hate. Learn the difference. If you hate another country to prove your love for yours, you are not patriotic, you are a nationalist. And that is as bad as some other “ist” words like facist, racist, etc. Patriotism is doing good for your country and fellow citizens out of love…
When I lived in the US, everything was “awesome” and “amazing” and “perfect” and “mind-blowing” and “incredible”. Or it was “awful”, “horrendous”, “criminal”, “terrible”, etc. “It’s fine” meant that one didn’t really like something. Even saying “it’s good” meant it wasn’t good enough for one’s standards. It took a stint in Europe to start tempering…
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…
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…
