“If you don’t ask for support, people simply won’t know that you need it. Everyone is preoccupied with their own mess, so please ask. Be shameless about it.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“If a terrified bird comes to rest on your hands or shoulders, it is your obligation to become a tree. Do not breathe aloud, lest you scare it away. Do not deny it your comfort, even if you are a barren tree.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Just once in my life, I want to talk about important things. Things that truly truly matter.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“There is so much in my heart, in my mind, and in my soul, yet I keep quiet. I say nothing worth saying. I talk about everything unimportant. Just once in my life, I want to talk about important things. Things that matter. Like sunsets and sunrises. Flowers blooming in my garden and dying prematurely. That one bird who once got scared by my sudden window opening and flew away. Space, stars, love, life, and death. Things that truly, truly matter.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“I do not know how to express this feeling in poetry. My childhood life seemed so pure and calm, like something straight out of a slow living movie. But now, I hardly have the time to appreciate it, and the outward hatred hardly leaves any space for love to exist. It is just struggle after struggle.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“But my solitude has never been a punishment for me. It was always a blessing. Sometimes a blessing in disguise, sometimes just a blessing. It has always been a blessing and it will always be a blessing.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“I love my ability to just sit down with a person and talk about any and everything for hours. I also love my ability to not talk to people for days and months and years.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“People sour the grapes they can’t have.” It’s not about grapes.
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Of people, of places, surfaces don’t interest me. Depths do.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Silence should not bring assumptions and invite miscommunication. Let people have their phases.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Once in a while, it happens. Once in a while you fall in love with being alive.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“It is not that I have poor judgment or discernment. People often move with bad intentions and evil plans by default, wearing masks behind masks to play the game of kindness and humanity until they gain proximity. If they fail, they usually sour the grapes they cannot reach.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Don’t let anyone else do the thinking for you. God put a brain inside everyone for a reason.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Father, your daughter can fight any battle and survive any war, but she shatters when betrayed by the people she calls her close ones.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“I might forget why and how something happened to me, but I don’t forget who and what someone did to me.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“If you can talk to me while you still owe me an apology, don’t think for a second that I’ve forgotten what you said or did. I do remember; I just don’t bring it up. After a certain number of attempts, I stop mentioning it because I realize you aren’t going to change. Then, I simply cut people off on a random Tuesday.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“People say their red flag is forgetting how awfully they were treated the moment someone starts being nice again. I DON’T. I REMEMBER. I WILL always remember. Even if I’m being kind in the moment, I remember exactly what was said or done and the way it was said or done. I will never forget. Even if we laugh and share our meals, I just won’t forget the truth you showed me. It’s not that I keep score. But I do remember how and how often someone made me feel beautiful or ugly.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Just once in my life, I want to talk about important things. Things that matter.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“People say their red flag is forgetting how awfully they were treated the moment someone starts being nice again. For me, it’s the opposite. I don’t forget. I remember. I will always remember. Even if I’m being kind in that particular moment, I remember exactly what was said or done and the way it was delivered.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Blind is love, they say, yet it is not a state of being deaf, dumb, or blind. Instead, it is being deaf to the critics, silent toward the slips, and blind in a way that refuses to let the scars suffocate the light of the soul. Love isn’t about losing your senses; it is about refining them to see what truly matters.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Am I what I survived or am I what survived in me?”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“I am afraid I will never be able to confess what you are to me. And I am afraid you will never be able to confess what I am to you. And I am afraid the life we can build together will be miscarried. I am afraid our love will die a premature death.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Just once in my life, I want to talk about important things. Things that actually matter.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“People with boundaries respect people with boundaries.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Fake people spill their character over minor inconveniences.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Once in a while, it happens. Once in a while you fall in love. Once in a while you experience the ebbs and flows of being a human.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“I taste the bitterness of life time and again, no matter if it happens or not.”
“I taste the bitterness once when I overthink, and a second time when it actually happens.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“There is a life in my gallery that I don’t post, and there is a death in my notes app that I don’t share.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“People often sour the grapes when they can’t access you.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“I do not deserve the hell(s) you keep giving me. I didn’t deserve the hell(s) you gave me.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Be grateful for the battles you don’t have to fight.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“I read people like holy scripture so I can disconnect and run away from them without regret. Yet, there are some who help me connect with myself more deeply. These are the ones I run toward.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
“Oh! the clown we make out of our own selves and hearts and souls and values and standards and opinions and perspectives and wants and needs and forgiveness when we are in love and don’t want to let them go. Oh! to be that clown as a result of this all.”
— Sadia Hakim ©️
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