In the digital age, where words travel faster than ever, the line between original thought and borrowed expression often blurs, resulting in stolen words and works.
As a writer, I’ve witnessed my words circulate across social media and reading apps, only to find them misquoted, misattributed, or even stolen entirely for commercial purposes to attract readers. These moments are a reminder of the fragile nature of intellectual property in an online world.
Many people write and can write on the same topics and themes. While ideas themselves aren’t someone’s intellectual property, their expressions, ways of expression, words, and works of authorship certainly are.
Copyright protects the unique expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. You can write about Alpha Centauri, but you cannot use my exact words and call it your creation.
In this post, I will share some of the most frequently misattributed or stolen words and excerpts from my works on social media.
People were never my need. Perspectives were. Hearts were. Souls were. People beyond people were.
— Sadia Hakim
And can a sword cause more damage than the ruthless use of words?
— Sadia Hakim
People provoke your unhealed versions, and hurt your wounded parts ad infinitum, and when your warrior side comes out to shield, they suddenly become victims.
— Sadia Hakim
And sometimes, sufferings are just sufferings, they don’t teach you any lessons, they don’t contribute to any growth, they don’t give you any patterns, they just take away the parts of you that can no longer be renewed or regenerated. They just give you the wounds that cannot be healed, and the scars that cannot be hidden. They just prove to be the lost last battle of the Candy Crush saga that cannot be redeemed, no matter what.
— Sadia Hakim
It’s not your job to live up to other people’s standards of living. It’s not your job to play other people’s versions of you. It’s not your job to see and perceive the world through other people’s lenses of seeing and perceiving the world. Your job is to be YOU, unapologetically YOU, and the best of you.
— Sadia Hakim
Now tell me, could any sword in the world damage you the way these words do? Could any sword in the world give you the wounds these tongues give? Some words don’t have any antidote. Just as there are the words that are an antidote in themselves, there are many words that are poisonous in nature. And before you poison someone with your words, consider some alternatives. Words are the cruelest form of killing someone. Only if Hitler had known the power of words, he wouldn’t have established the death camps to execute genocide.
— Sadia Hakim
I’m having a generation gap with the people of my age.
— Sadia Hakim
People provoke you, and when they are successful in bringing that ugly side out, they suddenly become victims, and now you are the toxic person.
— Sadia Hakim
I just hate it when people who haven’t been in your shoes tell you how to tie your laces. I just hate it when people who haven’t been YOU try to tell YOU how to be YOU and who YOU are meant to be. I just hate it when people who haven’t been through death tell you how to get through it alive.
— Sadia Hakim
What if I’m actually a swan swimming in the lake, hallucinating about being a human?
— Sadia Hakim
Disrespect is never funny. Bullying disguised as jokes is never funny. Being insensitive when opening your mouth and then labeling those who are listening as sensitive individuals is never funny.
— Sadia Hakim
Is this for real, or am I watching a vivid dream? This is the question I ask myself a lot. It seems like I’m still a child trapped in an adult reality.
— Sadia Hakim
What’s more precious: a single moment of understanding or a thousand moments of efforts to understand?
— Sadia Hakim
What if I lose myself in the crowd of people? What if I start to become apathetic towards nature? What if I am no longer me?
— Sadia Hakim
Tongues cut sharper than blades, words cut deeper than swords, and the wounded souls bleed longer than the wounded bodies.
— Sadia Hakim
Words cut deeper and sharper than swords.
— Sadia Hakim
Before experiencing a physical death, a man has to experience a spiritual, emotional, and intellectual death a hundred thousand times. The question is: how many times must one die in order to actually die?
— Sadia Hakim
It’s not your responsibility to fight other people’s demons. Honey! You have your own to deal with.
— Sadia Hakim
Everybody’s got their own demons to slay.
— Sadia Hakim
And when you start to understand life a little more, a little deeper, you realize there are not too many mediocre things in life.
— Sadia Hakim
The loss of platonic love among people is the most chaotic, inhumane, disastrous, and disappointing thing that has happened to this human world over a vicennium.
— Sadia Hakim
You can never truly understand people; all you can do is know them a little more, a little better.
— Sadia Hakim
Learn to keep your mouth shut, and ignore things if they don’t align with your values, likes, and dislikes.
— Sadia Hakim
Not all wounds heal, and not all scars fade away, do they?
— Sadia Hakim
I keep wondering whether the people you think about, think about you.
— Sadia Hakim
Museums and art galleries, public libraries, botanical gardens, handwritten letters, annotated books, starry nights, scented candles, and rainy days—what else do humans need to fall in love?
— Sadia Hakim
Have you ever been cut by the knife of words? Did you stop bleeding, or are you still trying to bandage the wounds?
— Sadia Hakim
Disrespect makes it way easier for people who are not good at abandoning others, who are emotionally invested in every relationship they have, and who give their hundred percent to the ones they consider their own, to disconnect.
— Sadia Hakim
Disrespect makes it much easier for people to disconnect.
— Sadia Hakim
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