• Mental Health - Relationships

    McRenett, my daughter, and Obel Tower in the City Centre

    Happiest memory, in my opinion, tends to be replaceable with every passing year. Fifteen years ago, my happiest memory was walking with my mum home from school. The delicious fragrance of cake from the McRenett bakery filled my senses. Later that evening, when my dad returned home after work, I hugged him, twining my arms around his neck. I smell the famous McRenett cake in his laptop bag. He was always good at surprises. Five years ago, my happiest memory was giving birth to my daughter. It was the best experience of my life, hands down! I knew she was…

  • Books - Relationships

    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: The Nature of Great Marriages

    The Prophet speaks about the truths he knows before leaving the city of Orphalese. The seeress Almithra asks about love for which he says: “For love is sufficient unto love.When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” ‘Love’, The Prophet | Gibran, Kahlil You can read his words on love here. Then, she asks him to speak about marriages. What does a successful marriage needs? We fall in love, and we get married to the person we fell in love with. But do all marriages have “happily…

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    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: Why resistance is pointless in love?

    It is Part 2 of the series: Khalil Gibran’s Life Hack. Gibran speaks of love in his second chapter on the Prophet. Love is always complicated and messy. It makes you question all of the beliefs you have on your ideology. Love has been here on this Earth for centuries. Poets and writers come and go; they become immortal by writing about love. Though we know love for so long, we still don’t know how to define love. We don’t know what love is not. You can read Part 1 of this series here. A seeress named Almithra, who believed…