Little Corner Chats

Things I’m good and bad at.

Disclaimer: I tried to make it educational but thought I’d keep it real and hilarious? Only way to be 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve always wanted to be exceptional at something. A skill, a craft, a prodigy (wishful thinking)? While that didn’t turn out as I’d hoped...I did discover that I was good at a few things.

After a lifetime of being pampered at home, once I was living on my own, it turned out that I was great at burning rotis. Or generally ruining the entire texture. Bless my husband who still ate every disaster I made back then.

I’ve also found out that I’m quite good at swiftly changing diapers. 20 seconds and I’m done. A speed test, I wasn’t aware I would be a success at.

While these latent abilities have improved my quality of life. I’ve also learned that I’m not quite good at waking up early. I try but the thought of an extra 5 minutes in the bed all to myself is too great a chance to miss.

If you stayed to read all this, thank you. 🤣❤️
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This post was in collaboration with these great people I’ve gotten to know in this virtual life.
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It’s a privilege to be able to hold and kiss your children in the morning.
It’s a privilege to be able to hear your parents voices the next day.
It’s a privilege to tune it all out when you’re feeling overwhelmed or just busy with your life.
It’s a privilege to go to bed and wake up without utter fear each night.
It’s a privilege to plan for your and your children’s futures without any hurdles.
It’s a privilege to be able to forget and move on.

It’s a privilege to be able to do whatever you want.

The world has a short term memory. And most of the times, selective empathy. Choosing to raise your voice for one movement and staying silent and oblivious on another. Do some lives matter more than others?

Where are all our idols in the West on this one now? Just because it’s not happening on their turf, it somehow doesn’t matter much, right?

Imagine each moment out there in P@-les-t!ne and the terror and trauma of each individual. They can’t breathe. They can’t be. They’re barely surviving. They’re burying faster than we can blink. They’re trapped with no end in sight and no way out.

So lest we forget,
It’s a privilege and a RIGHT to be free.

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