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IqraSense's avatar

Your reflection highlights the profound value of experience and wisdom. While ambition and dreams give us direction, it is life’s journey - its changes, challenges, and transformations - that sharpens our lens and deepens our understanding. So, you are not just revisiting life, but doing so with a richness that comes from having lived it fully. This blend of youthful aspirations with the maturity of experience is a powerful force, that will enable you not only to reflect with greater depth but to inspire others with insights that only time can bring.

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Amal Shakeb's avatar

Thank you @IqraSense for your encouragement 🙏

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Sana's avatar

I am envious of your thought process, it is so organised.

The person 'I' is in the middle of the chaos or should I call it life events and they are forever piecing together newly found skills, emotion, reaction, survival mechanism, whilst looking for lost parts of them and holding on to what remains.

Thank you for motivating me into bringing my thoughts to a social platform outside of my e-diary.

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Amal Shakeb's avatar

Thank you Sana ♥️

I would love to see you write again.

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Fathima Nafla's avatar

You don't look a day older than 20, masha Allah! Welcome to Substack!

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Amal Shakeb's avatar

:D thanks its good genes I guess :)

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Misty S. Bledsoe's avatar

This. The column.

I had a column back in the day, and I had wanted to be syndicated. This was before the internet. The types of stories you're describing are the best. Slice-of-life wrapped up on lessons and inspiration.

My kids are grown now. It seems like now, and only now for some reason, I'm able to focus on writing again. It's only in the last month or so that I've felt creativity and play return.

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Amal Shakeb's avatar

I am so happy to hear that Misty!

I know the feeling of your creativity coming back to you.

Its like a tap, which is suddenly unblocked and the water cannot stop flowing! Let it flow...

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Rameen's avatar

Can’t wait!

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Amal Shakeb's avatar

Thank you for being here ❤️

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Sana's avatar

I am envious of your thought process, it is so organised. The person, 'I' is in the middle of the chaos, or should I say life events, and the person is constasntly piecing together new discovered parts of them, trying to recover lost parts and hold on to all that remains. Thank you for sharing and for motivating me to pen on social platform and outside of my e-diary pages ...

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Sana's avatar

I am envious of your thought process, it is so organised. The person, 'I' is in the middle of the chaos, or should I say life events, and the person is constasntly piecing together new discovered parts of them, trying to recover lost parts and hold on to all that remains. Thank you for sharing and for motivating me to pen on social platform and outside of my e-diary pages ...

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