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Pain or legacy?
conceited morals questionable turn of phrases there’s so much pain around you how do you not feel it? how do you make it stop? we sleep...

Fatima Hanif
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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On 2020
looking back, I feel a weird kind of nostalgia for the year passed. a feeling of missing. of emptiness. maybe because each moment has...

Fatima Hanif
Jan 5, 20211 min read
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A sunrise after ages
A sunrise after ages brought me back to write to use my pen on these pages pressing it with the faintest of effort that non slept non...

Fatima Hanif
Jan 5, 20211 min read
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It’s been a while
its been a while since i cracked my pen open or relentlessly typed into my notes or since papers ran out but my words and thoughts gushed...

Fatima Hanif
Jan 5, 20211 min read
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On letting go
an unsettling feeling always follows when we think about letting go: could be our old acquaintances, a place we have called home for the...

Fatima Hanif
Jan 5, 20212 min read
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what made you a writer?
what made you a writer? was it the pain you didn’t know where to spill before the jar you hid it in, cracked, or was it the weight of the...

Fatima Hanif
Sep 24, 20202 min read
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Suicide?
Imagine for a second, you have an artist friend - an exceptionally loving, sweet and kind friend - who gifts you a painting, a painting...

Fatima Hanif
Sep 12, 20202 min read
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73 years of Independence
We, as a nation, have always looked behind to what we have lost measuring our accomplishments with what we failed at marking our...

Fatima Hanif
Aug 14, 20201 min read
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A fickle hope
Allah says he made humans as the best of His creation. I am forced to look around at all His creations, and if I am utterly honest, I...

Fatima Hanif
Aug 13, 20202 min read
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Eid ul Adha Mubarak
Eid ul Adha this year feels like all about realizing the worth of things, the worth of stolen happy moments in between of otherwise...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 31, 20201 min read
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Through feeling, not thinking
We often do things with no explanation. but then, are we supposed to have one? most of life that happens is without any explanation,...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 25, 20202 min read
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Beautiful strangers
There are beautiful connections you are entitled to form the minute you are born, those of parents, siblings, nearest kin etc but there...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 25, 20202 min read
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Perfect imperfections
Our minds are constantly in a battle, fighting for the perfect scores, the perfect careers, the perfect partners, the perfect friends,...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 25, 20202 min read
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Aftermath of watching Before Trilogy
its one of those days or actually nights i’m wallowing in sadness for, i don’t know why? i feel this ache in my chest like i have lost...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 24, 20201 min read
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What if thoughts could travel?
What if thoughts could travel? Imagine the air around us being consumed with people’s thoughts, among the nitrogen oxygen particles and a...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 24, 20201 min read
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Search for hope
An unsettling combination of intrigue, curiosity and probably my lack of substantial knowledge on this matter has led me here. Thinking...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 24, 20203 min read
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There's a little soldier inside you
maybe all we need is a person who admires even the most bizarre of our thoughts and ideas and actually understands them maybe all we need...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 24, 20203 min read
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Stranger in my own city
I feel like a stranger in my own city, as I see people around me glancing warily at a fellow passerby or a random street hawker. How can...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 24, 20202 min read
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Everything happens for a reason
‘everything happens for a reason’, a phrase always shoved in as an explanation when something weirdly unlikely or seemingly inexplainable...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 24, 20202 min read
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Philosophy of words
One of the many fascinating things in this world is the incapability of humans to define the very concept of words themselves and...

Fatima Hanif
Jul 24, 20202 min read
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