Befriend melancholy. Sounds absurd right? We are all in a never-ending race after joy and happiness. We force smiles in hopes of tricking our brains into becoming genuinely happy, forcing our hearts to pump euphoria in place of our blood. Whether explicitly expressed or not, the chase after eternal happiness is a constant thought permanently… Continue reading Befriend Melancholy.
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A Tribute to Mawakeb
Yet another year that flew by rather quickly, and, naturally, everyone is eager for the summer vacation to arrive. As a senior who has been in this school for thirteen years, I began to ponder and think about my final departure. Ever since I was little, I always imagined that in my final few months… Continue reading A Tribute to Mawakeb
Dethroning The Titanic
If you were to search for “the most tragic shipwreck”, both you and the internet would consider the same specimen: the Titanic. While the severity of its literal downfall cannot be overlooked, nor the lives that were lost to the Pacific minimized, the Titanic certainly is not the most tragic or the most significant. Before… Continue reading Dethroning The Titanic
Always Second Best
by Minatallah Husami Growing up, I was always encouraged to “do my best”. “Do your best” this, “do your best” that. I was never told, however, that doing my best might not always make me the best. Instead, my parents narrated stories in which they exhausted themselves working towards something grand, something extraordinary, something that… Continue reading Always Second Best
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5,4,3,2,1 … Happy New Year! It is 2019 and you start making promises to yourself, ones similar to last year’s, the year before, and the year before that too. You start noticing a pattern in your resolutions and realize that you could not keep those promises, inevitably breaking them. No, the promises were never deliberately… Continue reading 2:26 pm
Stress and Diabetes
As a diabetic, I notice the tiniest changes in my body. I have a sensor on my arm that many of my school peers have asked about; it checks my sugar level every single minute of the day. I easily scan my phone over it and a number pops up. The normal sugar levels are… Continue reading Stress and Diabetes