The only failure is when you are now middle-aged and are still blaming your parents, your circumstances, your country for the life that you have. Agency starts with believing that at any point in your life, things could still get a hundred times better. Then you just need to pay the price to become the kind of person who could get there. Failure is a mindset.
To all parents who intend to “allow” their dils to work after marriage.
Gheesa peeta lines sun sun ke mein puk gayi hu. So i am just taking this opportunity to highlight where the real barrier lies. It lies in our discomfort in watching our boys do their bit in their own homes.
An Iranian woman, lashed 74 times for defying the hijab law, is now a hero to millions.
#Roya_Heshmati, a Kurdish woman, was punished with 74 lashes for protesting the mandatory hijab. Defiantly, she refused to wear it even during her punishment. Her story is echoing across Iranian social media.
During her ordeal, she sang powerfully: "In the name of women, in the name of life, the chains of slavery have been torn apart."
Roya epitomizes the brave women of #WomanLifeFreedom, determined to dismantle the Islamic regime of Iran and establish a Democratic Iran.
We assume everybody's thinking about us as much as we're thinking about ourselves. But the truth is, everybody else is too busy thinking about themselves and worrying about what other people are thinking about them to bother thinking about us.
“Women face an uphill battle, from sexism and violence to inequality. In some areas, they are forced to deal with a culture that promotes primitive practices that endanger them, not just physically, but emotionally as well.”
― Hagir Elsheikh
Ideas are the building blocks of your future.
You must read, write, speak, contemplate, meditate, and break your habit with distractions that keep your mind depressed. That is the first step to a great life.
Then, relentlessly build with the ideas you filter as meaningful.
Teaching requires many different skills. "I'm a skilled teacher" -- great, but let's break it down into all the important skills.
Ideation, planning, writing, speaking, leveraging technology, creating activities, designing rubrics, evaluating work, facilitation, mentorship, etc!