I keep on revisiting this. You might not realize the depth of what he said. In urdu poetry, there is a concept where poets view God as a lonely being, so lonely that He created free willed humans for company. Loneliness is a Godly trait & whoever enters its realm meets God there
Every time I sit down with the older women in my family, I leave feeling a little more radicalised and that's why I'm so uncompromising about my autonomy. You hear the lives they might have had if they had been allowed to choose more freely, the education they didn't pursue,
na thi woh nazm adab-e-aliya
na thay aap sachay aashiq
magar mumaasilat aisi thi ke
lafzon se behlaate
mujhe apna raazdaar banate
aur kehte
mein aur tum
ek hi
i fink nothing will EVER beat watching ur sisters or cousins have kids, and then hearing them call you khala while looking up to you the way you once looked up to their mothers
Honestly the first time I read this I knew it had things to tell me that I was not ready to learn. Took me another 20 years to become a person who understood it, and like. Phew.