Whether Iran or Pakistan, the diasporas take is mostly totally out of touch, be it in cultural issues or in this case, all out war. Don’t even get me started on the fetishisation of the indigene. Sit down!
Lesson learned the hard way: stop buying populist books based on who the author is and curiosity about what they write. Fatima Bhuttos “the hour of the wolf” and Mira Sethis “are you enjoying”- never again
yesterday I asked my friend, the only living human I've met who's actually like Rancho from 3 idiots, how he argues.
He said "the most important thing in an argument is to give the other person a graceful out. You have to give them a way to surrender with dignity"
Very millennial/genz of me but I love using apps to do things so I can cut out the human interaction aspect. Antisocial I know, but sometimes I just want to do be a hermit yknow
I’ve come to realize that in pk this concept has failed spectacularly
my most boomer take is that being endlessly gentle with yourself all the time and never forcing yourself to do anything you don’t want to do isn’t self care it’s lazy and it’s bad for you