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The Power of Forgiveness: Healing from Pain and Rebuilding Relationships

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Forging is not as easy as it looks, When you are really hurt by the people you love a lot, when they hurt your soul, they make marks with pain. When you give them your trust and love more than you can, when you feel that they are more important people in your life than anything and when they hurt you more than your imagination. When you are not expecting any sort of harm from them when your soul says that they can never hurt you, When you have never learned to take the bark of a knife in the back from them, when you have ever been the best friends and family share and care for everything when you have given everything, your time, love affection, trust, genuineness, and faithfulness to that relationship and In return you got the nightmare with thrones and you are not prepared, their you don’t know how to take it, you have taken it that which broken your trust, believes and liveliness and when you are no more the same person who you were, you are so broken that each day your hea...

Learning to Stand Up for Myself: My Experience with Self-Advocacy in the Workplace?

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Have you ever experienced a situation where people change their behavior towards you as per their needs? Well, I have, and let me tell you, it's not a pleasant experience. However, I am not negative about it because I understand that people do what they need to do. Let me share with you a situation I recently went through. I work as a business analyst in a reputed company, and when I joined, it was a five-day workweek. However, my manager requested that I support him occasionally when an emergency comes up from home. I agreed, and for months, I worked on Saturdays. One Saturday, I stood up for myself and said that I couldn't work on Saturdays anymore as it was interfering with my personal life. My alternate co-worker refused to take care of the remaining work, and my manager and HR told me that I had to work on Saturdays. After some discussion, my manager asked me to work for two Saturdays, and the remaining would be done by others. However, on the third Saturday, my manager ...

Pushing Beyond Limits: My First Solo Trekking Experience

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  Let me share with you all that I went on a trek all by myself four days ago. I really wanted to go and had asked two of my friends, but they couldn't make it. So, I put the plan aside. However, last Sunday, I woke up at 5 am for my namaz and suddenly thought, "Let's make it. I can go alone." It was a sudden decision, and I thought a lot about whether to go alone or not. I was scared because of all the thriller movies I had watched and the recent news about rape cases. But I decided to do it anyway because confusion always kills me with no peace. So, after wearing my burqa, scarf, and nosepiece, I opened the gate of my PG and wore a helmet. I kept Google Maps on my mobile and started my way with the name of Allah SWT. The road was empty, silent, and scary as there were no more people on the roads. I was thinking about what to do if any accident happened to me. But I pushed myself to reach my desired place irrespective of my attire. I reached the trek mountain and g...