A Farewell to Torch

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off too.” – J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) That was precisely how I felt when we first launched the Torch website. If you told me back then that… Continue reading A Farewell to Torch

Befriend Melancholy.

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.

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