Eudaimonia Magazine, July 2023

JULY 2023 EUDAIMONIA A LITTLE BIT OF LIFE FOR EVERYONE The impact of the Do liberal feminists printing press on even care about women? Society The healing The mindset of a power of mountain climber literature. The Subtle Art of A story begins with a Not Giving a F*ck: A word book review A literature collection in PAJ Animal collaboration Welfare with Khilsat. Society. by Nixon Bentl with EDITED BY MUSKAAN AYESHA AND KHILSAT

EUDAIMONIA TABLE OF CONTENTS Do liberal feminists even care about women? The impact of the printing press on Society A story begins with a word. The healing power of literature. Every Rose. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Book Review. Alfredo pasta recipe. A literature collection in collaboration with Khilsat. Sean Fraser PAJ Animal Welfare Society The mindset of a mountain climber

DO LIBERAL FEMINISTS EVEN CARE ABOUT WOMEN? Shazana Mia Feminism in all forms still If women are entitled to all Feminism is losing it’s essence remains a progressing struggle human rights then why is because there are so many for all women in modern society feminism such a huge issue in feminists out there who don’t as well for men and children. modern society? truly understand the fight and to Feminists are still essential for The reason is because despite the understand this on- going women to gain respect. As the tremendous impact feminism has struggle as women we need to world is evolving and changing, it had on the world, our morals as understand why feminism began. is difficult for the world to human beings have stayed the The first wave of feminism in the remember what our fight is for. same. Gender isn’t the problem, late 19th and early 20th century, To truly understand our fight for us an individuals are. 82% of the which occurred in attempt to justice as women it is important American population do not stop female sufferage was to understand what liberal classify themselves as feminists, predominantly led by white feminism is, how it began and so does that mean that 82% of the bourgeois woman. This led us to how it has evolved over time. American population do not the second wave of feminism that respect women and believe that not only focused on white female Many of us are guilty of forgetting women don’t deserve to have sufferage but rather adressed what we’re fighting for and why equal rights as men? African female sufferage, we’re fighting for it. Women earn Not all males believe that they discrimination against all males 78 cents for every dollar a man superior to females and not all and children sufferage. makes, so gender inequality is females believe they inferior to still an ongoing fight. males. Yet stereotypes have led us to believe that women aren’t as good as men. Most people, women and men don’t have the courage to swallow their pride and admit that they aren’t superior to the opposite gender in argument. Gender inequality does not mean only women struggle, but men do too. “Men are not the enemy. But the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves” -Betty Friedan

Most Feminists have pure These same events are reccurring Just as all women don’t deserve intentions but even the most in modern society because while to be given labels, neither do famous feminists with good there are such inspiring feminists men. Not all men look down on intentions can be misunderstood in current times. There are women or are disrespectful and therefore misguide people. A feminists who no longer towards women. Men have been good example of this is an understand what our struggle is perceived as anti-feminists since inspiring and moving feminist, dedicated to. As women, as the beginning of feminism which Betty Friedan. Betty was the unjust as it is, we need to prove to is not fair to the population of Author of “The feminine the world we are not still what males who have respect for Mystique” as well as “The Second we were labeled as thousands of women. Stage.” Betty’s first book “The years ago and we are failing to Men have struggles too, in similar feminine Mystique” focused on achieve this. By going topless and areas with prejudice. These the need for women who were not shaving we are degrading struggles cannot be overlooked. truly feminine to work, get an ourselves and showing we have Females too are, guilty of education and have political no self-respect. If you don’t criticizing males and carrying opinions therefore women felt respect yourself, who will? If false beliefs and assumptions of obligated to abandon and deny women don’t want to shave that males. The main cause of this is, their needs for home, is their option and they shouldn’t females still hold a grudge relationships and children. be discriminated against for that. against previous generations of However not shaving and calling ignorant males who disregarded Therefore in the second wave of it “feminism” is giving the world gender inequality. However the feminism, the influential author a misconception of Feminism as a world has evolved and people no and feminist, Betty Friedan wrote whole. longer follow the same irrational her second book “The Second moralities. Stage” because she could see that It is undeniable that males and people misinterpreted her first females are different by nature book. Women became misguided and always will be. But that does and excluded children and even not mean either gender deserves women of colour from the fight of to be discriminated against yet Equality for women. “The Second women have been discriminated Stage” appealed to women to re- against and made to feel inferior, evaluate their perception of man belittled and given little to no as being “evil” and rather have opportunity to redeem mutual respect for one another. themselves from these small minded beliefs, that we don’t deserve to be seen as an equal to males. Restricting a women, from performing and labeling a man as the winner is a reflection of self doubt and even worse than doing such an action is to carry this belief for years.

Considering all the topics discussed about, I can finally come to a conclusion by answering the question do liberal feminists even care about women? Liberal feminists who actually understand that we fighting for equality and respect, not empowerment, care about women. Liberal feminists who actually know their worth as women and aren’t afraid to say it, care about woman. Liberal feminists who have respect for all individuals despite gender, care about women. Liberal feminists who represent themselves as worthy of respect, care about women. “Females are females Males are Males And nothing can change that. But people, regardless of gender can change their perception of others as individuals.”

The impact of the printing press on Society. Ziyaad Hajaree Human history is dependent on That is when the idea of the Today, we have an entire eco- literature, in order to keep its ‘Printing Press’ came into system dedicated to distribution civilization alive. The memory, fruition. of newspapers, magazines and lessons and mere existence of our As all aspects of human pamphlets – which would have kind, lies on shoulders of the revolution has seen, this new been considered impossible. records being kept. Every story invention spread like wild fire. ever told has always had a According to articles, the first Now comes the next bit of the message between the lines. utilization of the Printing Press revolution – communication. However, the ability to relay the dates back to the 9th century. Before the invention of information, themes and lessons, telephones and smartphones, the hasn’t always been easy. Through the Printing Press, the concept of communication was process of writing books and heavily dependent on the written Monks, narrators, and scribes recording information, had word. The tedious system, once have been charged with the task become cheaper and far more revamped, now permits us to of recording the magnanimous efficient. This opened up an spread news, across the world. volumes of information unprecedented flood of interest throughout all of human history. to the literature world. But we The result of this? Safety, Yet, it should go without saying, still have the question of, how has amongst many others, is this system was both strenuous it impacted society? Well, in massively and daunting for those involved simple terms, we could say that it improved. Criminals, kidnappers, in the process. made it easier for the public to thieves etc, each have their pick up the noble deed of reading operations jeopardized because – but there is a more complex of the rapid pace it takes to now understanding. transmit those pieces of information. News reporting, propagation, media coverage – these all became prevalent. Hundreds, thousands – become millions of issues of the media could now be released to the public. Of course, this was as the system saw steady updates, upgrades and further revolutions.

The printing Press has liberated the minds of readers, enlightened the souls of researchers, and awoken the thoughts of the fast asleep civilians. Efficiency allows us to focus on the actual task at hand. It’s safe to say that the printing press has revolutionized the world, for the better. Opinions may vary from person to person, and they do – but it is no secret that the world is a better place. Just imagine how much barbaric this world would have been, if it were shackled to the unfortunate reality of no literature! Other results are: Communication in general has been made far more efficient. Real world problems are reported, resulting in rapid response times, to deal with these problems. Concerns, for example, missing people reports, are now actually useful. Advertisements, like job offers, have those positions filled in far less time. So, we can successfully conclude that humanity has much benefitted from the vast contributions made by the printing press. Whether you utilize the products of this genius invention, or not – it doesn’t matter. You have to be grateful for what it has done.

A STORY BEGINS WITH A As I tried to get closer, they would move further back. A step WORD - MINE BEGAN forward, 2 steps back. It almost became a sort of game and I was simply a chess piece on the board. WITH A STROKE. A pawn. I kept stumbling forward, past people frivolously painting. I was drenched in paint. I wondered Sakeenah Gbemisola Ajayi. what they were afraid of. Why A story is being painted about me. I was faced with a jarring wouldn’t they let me get closer to And as I stumble through society, realization that they all painted the them? this painting is all that people same story. I wished they would see. I feel the strokes of their ask me what I thought of their Lost in thought, I walked past paint brushes, see the swift paintings. So I tried to get closer, I another group of people. Mentally movement of their hands as desperately wanted to see the preparing myself, I expected the they fill in their canvases. I smell painting. I wanted to see the little same reaction. I didn’t feel brush the splatter of paint, red, black, details. The tiny smudges that strokes. I didn’t feel the gush of air red, brown, red. I smell red. It’s formed this story. It was as they lifted up their paint an overpowering smell that enthralling and overwhelming at brushes. So, I turned out of engulfs me. I see the painting in the same time. Their eyes were curiosity. I stopped dead in my the pupil of their eyes. I can’t help constantly shining on me. Deep tracks. They were smothered and but say that the painting looks furrows formed on their forehead, dripping in paint. Like me… ugly. I see the harsh and bold as if they could see through me. strokes. The deep and wide They’d glance back at their canvas 1 colors. I’m fixated on the and continue working. protruding gleam in their eyes. I shiver.

I walked over to them. Some moved So before you start painting, before you place away and some stayed. And so I sat and your brush on your canvas and make your first pondered regarding the events of the stroke. Think of the implication of that first day. I suddenly caught a glimpse of the stroke, the story being drawn and painted. hand of the lady sitting next Think of the story you’re painting about others. to me. Her hands were a rich warm and Think of the story you paint about others based earthy shade of brown. It was beautiful on factors they are born with. and seemed familiar. I watched as many faces of earthy brown of many shades A story begins with a word and mine began looked at me incredulously. It all with a stroke. registered in my brain. I ran home. It was my only safe haven. Flashbacks of people painting me as I walked by. Why did I only notice now that they (the people painting) looked different from me? Different features and skin tone.I felt the sudden urge to paint. I quite enjoyed art, its different forms and its ability to capture words - spoken or hidden. I most especially enjoyed the splash of colors on a canvas and the graceful movement of a brush on a canvas. I was an artist of some sort - just not a great one. I couldn’t paint my words. I could paint stories about people. Stroke after stroke, paint after paint, it was thrilling. Getting a colour or two, an image here and there and then a full painting. Many paintings, canvases filled and glistening. Stories like I see a grandma on a wheelchair - I paint just a tiny bit of her story where she must have lived a very fulfilled life before this. I paint her surrounded by grandkids, laughter and her children- a loving family. Oh and by the way, she happened to be white. I say happened, not because I didn’t notice her colour, but that didn’t define who she was as a human being. But the world isn’t as beautiful as that. Sorry, I mean the paintings in the world aren’t always as beautiful as that. It makes sense, in a world where people are stricken with poverty, in a world where in a blast a family is left without a home, in a world where people are seen as inferior based on their race and skin color. Some might argue that it’s 2023 and surely that’s not the case anymore. But then strokes, contours, lines and shadows are filled with prejudices dripping with racism - unfounded biases. Therefore, creating and painting an ugly image and a jarring painting.

The Healing Power of Literature: Books as a means of therapy THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER Akila Patel OF LITERATURE IN In a fast pace and stressful world, it is often difficult to find comfort BIBLIOTHERAPY: and inner serenity. However, the true hidden gems lie within the Unravelling emotional pages of the books which also provide a pathway to self- complexities: Literature serves as discovery. Literature has long served as a means of escape, a mirror, reflecting our feelings allowing readers to submerge into a world of fantasies and and assisting us in making sense imagine themselves in place of the characters, allowing of the complexities within. We themselves to dwell in their thoughts and feelings, by learn about difficulties, victories reflecting on their own experiences and finding and transformations of the resonance in the universal themes explored within the characters we read about; these pages. events seem to have a profound THE ESSENCE OF BIBLIOTHERAPY: impact on us. Literature offers a At its essence, bibliotherapy utilizes the effectiveness of multitude of storylines that speak literature to nurture emotional and psychological well-being. too our own experiences, Just the way music evokes strong emotions and sends us to a HOW IS BIBLIOTHERAPY USED: bringing validation and different dimension, books The approach may be possess the ability to ignite our incorporated in one or more of understanding whether it is imagination, empathise and the following ways: Prescriptive finding solace. Books allow us to bibliotherapy: involves the dealing with mental health immerse in the world of fictional intentional recommendation of characters which broadens our specific books by a trained problems, managing perspectives and reassures us professional to address specific that we are not alone in the emotional or psychological relationships or overcoming challenges that we encounter. concerns of an individual. Creative bibliotherapy: uses sorrows. imaginative literature such as novels, poems, short stories and EMPATHY AND CONNECTION: plays to improve psychological The ability of bibliotherapy to wellbeing. foster empathy is one of its remarkable features. As we immerse ourselves in various stories, we put ourselves in roles of various characters and develop a more comprehensive understanding of a human condition. Our ability to empathise with others can be improvised by this newfound knowledge, which can result in deeper bonds and more compassionate interaction within our own lives. Additionally, bibliotherapy can help people connect with people from various backgrounds communicate with one another, generating a greater respect for difference and building societal harmony.

THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL THE THERAPEUTIC OF WRITING: POWER OF READING Writing poetry, short stories BOOKS: or novels has a strong Reading is a powerful took emotional and psychological for overall well-being and impact. They enable people transformative journey, it is to express people the best habit one can have themselves and explore like its not only practical their inner world and offer a because it improves brain, cathartic release. Through memory, creativity, self-reflection and communication function and storytelling, writing helps you relax but it also promotes self-discovery, transports you to different personal growth and a worlds and lets you live sense of connection with thousands of lives while others who resonate with becoming a better, more their experiences. It provides empathetic human because a therapeutic and you are constantly viewing empowering journey via the the world from different transformational power of perspectives. words. SELF-REFLECTION AND By embracing bibliotherapy, we tap into the PERSONAL GROWTH: transformative power of books, using them as Using books as a vehicles for healing, self- reflection, and personal therapeutic tool promotes growth. Whether we seek solace, understand, or a self-reflection, introspection, renewed sense of purpose, literature has the remarkable and personal development. ability to guide us on our journey towards emotional We can find inspiration and well-being. So, let us turn the pages and immerse guidance within the pages ourselves in the healing embrace of written word. of the books, as they offer alternate paths and solutions to the problems we encounter in our lives. We can explore our views, values, and desires through reading's introspective nature, which helps us become more self-aware and understand ourselves better.

PAJ Animal Welfare Society Outreach in Pretoria (Laudium) Safiya Shaikh In our community, PAWS plays a The Laudium PAWS team vital role in promoting assisted Pet Community responsible animal welfare and Outreach and UNISA in controlling feral cat populations. assembling all the necessary PAWS strategically traps and facilities in order to achieve the releases these objectives by providing the misunderstood creatures, necessary primary health care to prioritizing their well-being. the animals. Skilled volunteers like myself set UNISA brought along 11 of their humane traps, capture feral cats veterinary technicians in training with care, and ensure their safety. with three qualified vets as well as the head of the program Dr Veterinarians perform necessary Tian Smit. This was to allow the procedures and provide medical care, improving the cats health students to gain their practice The team assisted 40 dogs and 40 and longevity. hours as well give back to the cats with primary healthcare. The There are often cases of community. abandonment in kittens, in this mass, temperature, pulse, & situation PAWS has the kitten Pet Community Outreach’s Lori- respiration rate were taken, a taken to a foster home and cared Kay reached out to PAWS and vaccination that prevents Parvo, for until it is ready to be adopted brought UNISA on board to Hepatitis, Distemper and Kennel into a loving home. provide the Laudium animals cough in dogs and pan with health care services. Apart leukopenia, One of our first and most herpes, & memorable, successful day, the from her generosity, she got her rhinotracheitis in cats was 6th June 2023, PAJ Animal hands involved as a vet administered, Rabies shots given Welfare Society (PAWS) in technician as well. She and her to dogs, deworming treatment association with Pet Community colleague Tshepo Mafisa assisted and lastly, tick and flea Outreach (PCO) and UNISA held 39 cats in a matter of a few hours. protection. a community outreach program for members of the community The Initiative was a resounding that could not afford primary health care for their pets. This success, and there are more plans event took place in Laudium at the Laudium Bowling Club. in the pipeline to continue to assist the animals in the area. The assessment made by Pet Community Outreach and UNISA was that due to the lack of funding from this specific community, the animals are in dire need of further assistance . In a comment Lori-Kay said: \"There are more feral cats than rats in Laudium\".

In a meeting after the attending Maniza said, “We have a huge This aid was very much needed to the 80 animals, it was task ahead of us but I am and we welcome such initiatives immediately decided that UNISA confident that the team of in the future. All donations and the Pet Community Outreach organizers will start preparing collected went to Pet Community would like to be back in the near and collaborating for the next Outreach to enable them to future.\"A notice and appointment outreach program where the continue the great work done in system will be set up by the target the community. Laudium PAWS team.\",said Cllr is much higher than the previous Prajay Ramjee. one on the 6th of June.” Through our trap-neuter-release “All our members and volunteers programs, the cats are returned He further added that this type of are grateful to UNISA and PCO for to their habitats, preventing assistance is essential for our their assistance in providing the further reproduction while communities animals. Mr Ramjee much needed care for our allowing them to live fulfilling said “Credit must be given to animals.” lives. This approach benefits both Maniza Essa and Zuraida Ganie the cats and the community by who are also part of PAWS This aid was very much needed, reducing risks and fostering management, as well as Layla and we welcome such initiatives empathy. Mohamed and Safiya shaikh.” in the future. All donations Maniza is a co-director of our collected went to Pet Community Let's recognize and support the Non-Profit Company and Zuraida Outreach to enable them to dedication of those involved in is an aspiring vet with a passion continue the great work done in this initiative by creating a for animals. Whilst Safiya is an the community.We further thank compassionate and sustainable enthusiastic student that has Shayona a local Indian cuisine for future for feral cats. It was the interest in Animal health and the delicious vegetarian pizzas most fun and enthusiastic immunization (vacinations given and to Laudium Bowling Club for experience since my love for to refrain disease transmitting allowing us to use their facilities. animals is beyond me and I’d from pets to humans and vice spare a minute or two just to save versa). PAWS falls under the PAJ a innocent creation like dogs or Community Development NPC cats. I’ve got to learn a lot from which deals with community volunteering and willing to learn upliftment and is committed to more with this society and many ensuring that our next outreach other animal program will be beneficial to the associations, such as vaccinating feral cats and stray animals in and deworming them excreta one Laudium. day. Please find us on Social Media. (PAJ patrollers) on instagram OR (PAJ animal welfare society) on Facebook.

The Mindset Of A Mountain Climber Fatima Abdul Rehman Mind Coach, Author, and Speaker avid mountaineer, mind power graduate My journey to Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Everest Base Camp and how my mindset and momentum got me going. The momentum and mindset We w40eraendtharbeoeveb. rave women, Momentum started building, first starts much before the climb. It aged our training, and then also starts the moment you decide to We had to have a plan. What was arranging all the equipment we do it. Do you know what kind of the plan? How were we going to needed, the special clothing, the thought process you need to have train? When were we leaving? 25-litre backpack that we had to to climb a mountain? For me, that What's the cost? We had to set carry and train with. We trained was the first time I ever had the dates and book the date. When with the hiking poles which were idea of climbing a mountain. I we booked the date to leave 10th going to be with us throughout thought, “Whoa, is this August 2012 we were already our climb. Our bodies adjusted something that I halfway there because we knew and got accustomed to the weight want to do?” Where did this this was it. of carrying the backpack, and also thought come from? I don't know. using the poles. It became like But it just felt exciting and There was no way we were going something that was part of us. magnificent, and I had a belief to back out now because it was This momentum was built but that I would do it! set. That was the beginning. It that was just the beginning. was when we set a date Our mindset started building too. Somehow I just believed I could to do the climb. And then the When we arrived in Tanzania our climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the second part :what do we need to minds were ready. I certainly had highest mountain in Africa, do before we do the climb? We no doubts. I had an affirmation 5895m above sea level. The desire needed to plan our training that I have successfully summited was overwhelming and mind among a whole list of other Mount Kilimanjaro and I feel blowing simultaneously. The way things. amazing, healthy, and strong. I the momentum started was, we even had a song for when I went out to buy the best pair of Our training entailed everyday reached the summit. hiking boots, waterproof and walking for an hour plus cardio That was my mindset. It was like comfortable, and hiking poles. and yoga practice 3 times a week my mind knew it already. On the We started our first hike the first and weekend hikes, every climb, it is necessary to keep the weekend in February 2012, so we weekend!. We did hikes in momentum. When your mind is could start wearing our boots and different areas and we drove far strong your body will follow, and train properly. We had a day-to- and wide to get the experience on when your mind gives up your day activity set up till the date of different terrain. We tried body will also give up. So the departure which was six months different things to see what momentum is a part of your ahead. It required a full worked, and what didn’t work. journey of six days up the commitment to ourselves and We ensured we had enough mountain and one day to each other. water with us if we got lost on the come back down. Six days track. For fun, we would spread a because we need time for the blanket, have a picnic break with body to acclimatize with the achaar bread and crisps. That was altitude. delicious!

Climbing on the first day was challenging. There was Our goal was ultimate , we needed to climb that no flat ground, only uphill. We decided to be here, mountain. and we knew we could make it. There was no way Every evening, planning for the next day, we were we were turning back. And sometimes you may have briefed by our guides. We prepared our minds for the a person that might say something with a little next day, regarding what the terrain was looking like, inkling of doubt and try to put a seed in your head what we're going to do, and the duration of the hike. that, if you don't make it, you can always go back Sometimes the terrain was climbing high and sleeping down. And that was something I never wanted to low, that was for acclimatization, so think about. There was no doubt about summiting. I we knew what to expect. We were prepared mentally just didn't know how, but I knew I and the body would just follow. That's how momentum trained for it. So the belief has to be there. When goes. You get to a point where you say there's no way you're getting momentum, you need to have a I'm looking back anymore. I'm almost there. complete self-belief in concrete that you're not going to back out on this. Finally summit night, the biggest challenge of all. We were trekking for the first time on the climb at When our mindset was strong then our momentum midnight, at freezing minus 10 degrees. Our minds kept on building and we went on day after day. It were ready to face this. We prepared for that, we had was enjoyable at times because we were sharing the right equipment with down jackets, we had toe and emotions. We were present in experiencing it. We hand warmers with double gloves with double gloves would rest when we needed to. We had a lunch stop with everything we needed for the ascent to the every day, where our porters prepared delicious summit. The moment that we either made it or broke it halal protein pack meals for us, and at dinner time because it was icy cold, it was dark and we were again. We shared intimate moments as we released walking in the middle of the night, at a very slow pace, many emotions, through laughter and tears, but barely able to breathe with every step. We knew that was all part of the momentum because we let already this is how it was going to be, but it go of emotional luggage and we carried on with our was more challenging than we expected. We started at goal. The biggest challenge was the toilets. Be 11 pm, got ready with our headlamps, ate something prepared, no luxury home toilets, it's portable light and began the ascent. toilets with no flush. And the best at the end of the day was a dish of warm water and soap to cleanse ourselves from all the dust of the day. 1

The vision was limited in the I would recommend anyone do it pitch-black darkness, we could because if it's been done before only see two feet in the distance, you can do it so there are no only focused on our feet and limitations. This was my climb to some lights in front, and heard Mount Kilimanjaro and the same muffled voices. It was just us with for Mount Everest in April 2019, our minds. We were climbing but which was 5364 m above sea the mind was so vulnerable at level. It's just the area and terrain that time because it was really that were different. The people challenging. Then we had to tell were different ourselves, it's almost done, and too. I had a team of 19 climbers we including myself. I was seven are good. I would tell myself I'm years older, but my mindset was on flat ground so my mind the same. My body was strong thought it was on flat ground and and healthy and my affirmation it was an easy for Mount Everest Base Camp hike. So in my mind, I hiked on was: \"I have successfully climbed flat ground. I prayed all the time. Mount Everest Base Camp and Sometimes I would listen to I'm stronger and healthier.\". That calming music, whatever made was how I me feel comfortable and at ease in felt at the end of my climb even my body. I would say my though we were exhausted. affirmation that I have reached the summit. If we just have the right affirmations and we have the Besides dealing with the altitude Momentum in the climb is all right attitude, that is something when we felt sick and nausea, about keeping your mind in we can do. This is the brilliant vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, and check. Making sure you're not momentum and magnificent shortness of breath set in, these allowing anyone or anything to mindset that I have to share for were extra external factors that bring that negativity and make it my climbs and it's an honor and a were coming into play because of alive in your mind. You need to beautiful emotional the air being so thin. That's also a make sure that you think the attachment that I have that I challenge which we were right thoughts focusing on the could do this. Never in my life did prepared for mentally, that this right things so that you can get to ever think I would do this. I have could your destination. done it and I'm very proud to say happen. Cerebral Oedema or it. Pulmonary Oedema. Be prepared It is very easy to start thinking that if severe altitude sickness set negatively and to give up just The mindset of a mountain in, it could be detrimental and before you’ve almost reached climber is definitely an ice fatal. your goal breaker for any walk of life, since and that's what we do all the we're experiencing challenges all If that were the case, we needed time. It just really taught me a lot the time. Thank you for allowing that if you focus on what you me to share my exhilarating to descend, and want, you will get it. adventures. Experiencing the challenges that that meant being aware of what will come irrespective and sometimes you're not prepared we were experiencing and being for it. But if your mind says \" I can overcome it. I've done so much in honest about it. For me, I was my life. I can do this too\", then you can overcome it. sure that I was going to do it even It's not easy, but it's not impossible and this is what I've if it took me longer but I would learned from my mountain climb. finish it and that's how I reached the summit. As I was almost at the end I almost gave up. It felt like I reached a wall, and I could not take any more steps. Then my guide came and helped me pull myself up to the summit, to hear the sweetest word: “Congratulations!! You did it!”.

Every rose Trigger warning for Abuse BintZasha I felt a wave of pain coursing Our paths first crossed on a cool I could no longer recognize through my entire being as I autumn evening, with the sky myself in the mirror, as his gazed at the deep red petals of a painted in warm hues of orange poisonous words reverberated single rose. It resembled the and gold, mirroring the fire that through my mind day and night. blood-stained state of my own ignited within me as our eyes met Yet, like an addict craving heart, serving as a haunting amidst a bustling café. Edwin was another fix, I clung desperately to reminder of a love that had captivating, possessing a smile the fragments of the love we once transformed into a suffocating that could melt even the coldest shared. I convinced myself that if prison. of hearts and a voice that lulled I could just be better, fix my me into a false sense of security. flaws, he His name was Edwin, a man who From the very beginning, he would love me with the same as once whispered promises of exuded an air of mystery, before. It was a twisted cycle of everlasting devotion. However, drawing me in with an irresistible pain and hope, and I found myself those words had gradually magnetism that made my heart trapped within its complicated mutated into manipulative and skip a beat. steps. controlling echoes. Initially, his affection seemed like a gentle As our relationship progressed, so Then, on one fateful evening, as embrace, but over time, it did his possessiveness. He would rain relentlessly beat against the constricted me like a tightening incessantly call me, demanding to windows, I summoned the grip, leaving me desperate for air. know every detail of my life, courage to break free from the monitoring my friendships, and cycle of abuse. With trembling enveloping me in a cloud of hands, tears mingling with jealousy. At first, I mistook his raindrops, I gathered my actions for intense belongings and confronted both passion, believing that his the obsession was an expression of storm outside and the storm love. However, as time passed, I within. I left the rose behind, came to realize that it was a toxic symbolizing the beauty that had dance of power and control.His been tarnished by thorns. words became a weapon, tearing away at my self-worth and reducing the once vibrant and hopeful Valerie to a fragile rose, withering under the weight of his abuse.

Book review: \"The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck Jana Kriez MARK MANSON'S \"THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING Inage derived from Mark Manson's website. A F*CK\" IS A CAPTIVATING AND THOUGHT- PROVOKING BOOK THAT CHALLENGES CONVENTIONAL WISDOM AND OFFERS A REFRESHING TAKE ON LIVING A MEANINGFUL AND FULFILLING LIFE. IN A WORLD SATURATED WITH SELF- HELP BOOKS PROMISING HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS, MANSON STANDS OUT BY ADVOCATING A COUNTERINTUITIVE APPROACH: EMBRACING DISCOMFORT, ACCEPTING OUR LIMITATIONS, AND LEARNING TO PRIORITIZE WHAT TRULY MATTERS. THE BOOK'S STRENGTH LIES IN MANSON'S CANDID AND IRREVERENT WRITING STYLE. HE COMBINES HUMOR, PERSONAL ANECDOTES, AND PROFANITY TO ENGAGE READERS IN A NO-NONSENSE CONVERSATION ABOUT LIFE'S INHERENT STRUGGLES. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, MANSON DISPELS THE ILLUSION OF A PROBLEM-FREE EXISTENCE, URGING READERS TO FACE LIFE'S INEVITABLE DIFFICULTIES HEAD-ON. THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK IS AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH'S MINDS REGARDING CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND A PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY. IT IS INEVITABLE THAT DURING OUR YOUTH, WE WILL OVERCONSUME WHAT IS NOT MEANT TO FEED OUR UNHEALTHY DESIRES AND FANTASIES. PERHAPS, WE WILL OVERCONSUME AND WORSEN OUR ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND LACK OF SELF- ACKNOWLEDGMENT UNCONSCIOUSLY AND THEN PROCEED TO BLAME IT ON THE UNREALISTIC STANDARDS OF SOCIETY. FORTUNATELY, I GOT THE CHANCE TO READ AND ANNOTATE THIS BOOK BY MARK MANSON THOROUGHLY, AN AMERICAN SELF-HELP AUTHOR AND BLOGGER. AS OF 2022, HE HAS AUTHORED AND CO-AUTHORED FOUR BOOKS, THREE OF WHICH, THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A FUCK, EVERYTHING IS F*CKED: A BOOK ABOUT HOPE, AND WILL, WERE THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS. “THE DESIRE FOR MORE POSITIVE EXPERIENCES IS ITSELF A NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE. AND, PARADOXICALLY, THE ACCEPTANCE OF ONE’S NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE IS ITSELF A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE”

HIS BESTSELLING BOOK, THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT THROUGH THE EYE-CATCHING AND GIVING A F*CK, IS CATEGORIZED INTO NINE ‘INAPPROPRIATE’ TITLE, MANSON CHALLENGES CHAPTERS: SOCIETY'S OBSESSION WITH CONSTANT POSITIVITY, ARGUING THAT TRUE HAPPINESS CHAPTER 1: DON’T TRY COMES FROM EMBRACING OUR FLAWS AND CHAPTER 2: HAPPINESS IS A PROBLEM ACCEPTING THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF LIFE. HE CHAPTER 3: YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL CONTENDS THAT AVOIDING DISCOMFORT AND CHAPTER 4: THE VALUE OF SUFFERING PURSUING HAPPINESS AT ALL COSTS CAN BE CHAPTER 5: YOU ARE ALWAYS CHOOSING DETRIMENTAL TO OUR WELL-BEING. INSTEAD, CHAPTER 6: YOU’RE WRONG ABOUT MANSON SUGGESTS THAT FINDING A SENSE OF EVERYTHING PURPOSE AND MEANING CAN LEAD TO A MORE CHAPTER 7: FAILURE IS THE WAY FORWARD FULFILLING EXISTENCE, EVEN IN THE FACE OF CHAPTER 8: THE IMPORTANCE OF SAYING NO ADVERSITY. CHAPTER 9: …AND THEN YOU DIE \"THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK\" IS NOT EACH CHAPTER SPECIALIZES IN ONE'S OWN WITHOUT ITS CRITICISMS. SOME READERS MAY FACTION OF COMPLEXITIES, FROM LEARNING FIND MANSON'S CASUAL TONE AND HOW TO HEALTHILY BALANCE ONE'S INTAKE OCCASIONAL USE OF PROFANITY OFF-PUTTING. OF OPINIONS AND CRITIQUES, TO ADDITIONALLY, THE BOOK'S OVERARCHING UNDERSTANDING THAT OUR PROBLEMS ARE MESSAGE, WHILE POWERFUL, MAY SEEM OVERLY MERELY A SMALL PORTION COMPARED TO SIMPLISTIC AT TIMES, LACKING SPECIFIC STRATEGIES WHAT IS REVOLVING AND TAKING PLACE FOR IMPLEMENTATION. HOWEVER, MANSON'S AROUND US. HE EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE INTENTION IS NOT TO PROVIDE A STEP-BY-STEP OF CHOOSING WHERE TO DIRECT OUR LIMITED GUIDE BUT RATHER TO PROVOKE THOUGHT AND TIME AND ENERGY. HE ENCOURAGES READERS ENCOURAGE SELF-REFLECTION. TO DETERMINE THEIR VALUES AND LET GO OF THE TRIVIAL THINGS THAT DON'T ALIGN WITH DESPITE ITS PROVOCATIVE TITLE, \"THE SUBTLE ART OF THOSE VALUES. BY BEING SELECTIVE ABOUT NOT GIVING A F*CK\" OFFERS VALUABLE INSIGHTS WHAT WE CARE ABOUT, MANSON ARGUES, INTO LIVING A MORE AUTHENTIC AND PURPOSE- WE CAN FREE OURSELVES FROM THE BURDEN OF DRIVEN LIFE. MARK MANSON'S UNAPOLOGETIC EXTERNAL EXPECTATIONS AND FOCUS ON STYLE CHALLENGES READERS TO REASSESS THEIR WHAT TRULY BRINGS US JOY AND FULFILLMENT. VALUES, CONFRONT DISCOMFORT, AND LET GO OF SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS. THIS BOOK SERVES “THE TRUTH IS THAT THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THOSE TIRED OF THE AS A PERSONAL PROBLEM. IF YOU’VE GOT A SUPERFICIALITY AND ANXIETY-INDUCING PRESSURE PROBLEM, CHANCES ARE MILLIONS OF OTHER OF MODERN LIFE. IF YOU'RE WILLING TO EMBRACE PEOPLE HAVE HAD IT IN THE PAST, HAVE IT AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH AND NOW, AND ARE GOING TO HAVE IT IN THE CONFRONT UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS, MANSON'S FUTURE. LIKELY PEOPLE YOU KNOW TOO. THAT BOOK MIGHT JUST BE THE WAKE-UP CALL YOU DOESN’T MINIMIZE THE PROBLEM OR MEAN NEED TO START LIVING LIFE ON YOUR OWN TERMS. THAT IT SHOULDN’T HURT. IT DOESN’T MEAN YOU AREN’T LEGITIMATELY A VICTIM IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES. IT JUST MEANS THAT YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL. OFTEN, IT’S THE REALIZATION - THAT YOU AND YOUR PROBLEMS ARE ACTUALLY NOT PRIVILEGED IN THEIR SEVERITY OR PAIN - THAT IS THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT STEP TOWARD SOLVING THEM.”

ALFREDO PASTA Ingredients Akila Patel 250g pasta of choice 250g cubed chicken 5 tbsp. butter 2 chillies (depending how spicy you want it) 3 garlic cloves Salt to taste Pepper to taste Oregano 1 tsp. lemon juice 1 tin sour cream 1 tin fresh cream Mozzarella cheese Method Start by cooking the pasta according to the instructions on the pack. Make a green paste with the chillies and garlic. (you may add more for more enhanced taste) Pour the butter in a pan over medium heat and add in one chopped garlic clove, sauté for few seconds. Add chicken, lemon juice, salt and pepper, half of the green paste and let the chicken cook. After the chicken is done cooking add in the sour cream, mix and then add the fresh cream and let it simmer. Add in rest of the green paste and oregano. Let it simmer for a few more minutes and add in the boiled pasta. Add cheese to your desire, mix and enjoy.

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EUDXKHILSAT THE LAW OF 01 ATTRACTION: ARE WE MAKING THINGS WORSE FOR OURSELVES? by Jan Miklaszewicz @janmiklas.poems A lot is made these days of Through certain visualisation and positive thinking and the so- affirmation techniques–which to called ‘law of attraction’. Indeed, a my mind treat the unconscious whole industry appears to have like some kind of dupe–we get sprung up around it, with a glut of ourselves into a state of positive self-help books, seminars, and and grateful expectation. In gurus coming out of the effect, we knock on the door of woodwork. But is it really all it’s our desires and wait, all the while cracked up to be? believing we’re already inside or on the verge of being admitted. First things first then, let’s look at a similar law that was doing the This requires, for me at least, the rounds before this one hit the same sort of mental gymnastics scene. Described by Alan Watts as as trying not to picture an the ‘backwards law’, it states that elephant. For every one of us who whatever we don’t want, we’re can manage it, I suspect there are going to get a whole lot more of. thousands more who can’t. And The idea behind this is that the we aren’t just asked to ignore our sheer act of wanting something material situation–the threadbare implies a lack of it–a lack we can’t savings account, the leaking roof– help but feel and express, but also to ‘fake it until we make whether we realise it or not. it’ as part of hitting and maintaining a certain ‘vibrational So this runs pretty much parallel frequency’. to the law of attraction, which tells us we can get whatever we want by imagining we already have it.

EUDXKHILSAT 02 And it’s this requirement to Of course, my arguments do remain positive, to turn a blind suffer from at least a touch of the eye to anything contradictory, old straw man. There are surely that truly concerns me. The plenty of benefits to adopting a psychic energy required for this more positive outlook on life, and must be counterbalanced despite not liking the labelling–it somehow, and I’ve seen the most certainly isn’t a law in the upbeat people inflict random commonly accepted sense–I misery upon themselves and won’t deny that in certain ways those around them. There’s also a we do attract or manifest our danger of seeming callous or out desires (and our fears, of touch when refusing to unfortunately). And as for my acknowledge or engage with the thoughts on hedonism, no doubt ills of the world. And what about there are plenty of people out victim blaming? Do the poor and there who are seeking or offering sick really deserve our pity when something much more they could improve their lot meaningful. simply by overcoming that negative mindset? Ultimately though, I’ll wager that the law of attraction is mostly Another issue of concern is that used in the hope of accruing the law of attraction movement material wealth. And quite aside seems geared so strongly towards from the maxim that money can’t the hedonistic. Frequent talk of buy happiness, I fear we might wealth and abundance, actually be making things worse promotional videos filled with for ourselves. After all, if there’s images of cruise ships, luxurious any truth to Alan Watts’s villas, and sports cars–it all strikes backwards law, these feverish me as out of kilter with the air of affirmations only serve to spirituality implied by the intensify our sense of lack. So ‘ancient wisdom’ and ‘eternal forgive me if I go and find secrets’ that underpin this law. something else to do with my Also, I doubt there’s enough time instead. physical matter on the planet– we’re talking ore, oil, and timber on a vast scale here–for every one of us to manifest what is ‘rightfully’ ours.

EUDXKHILSAT FORLORN 03 by Snehnaz Sheikh @snehzuuu While I keep gazing at the sky, Looking ahead to the present lying on the bare land alone scenario, I see myself in a accompanied by cool breeze and peaceful life (it does not mean loneliness. The ambiance around that am not traumatized but its does not sound much , maybe manageable) not running away some rustling of leaves, the Sun from fears, shedding tears till my has escaped a while back. Am not eyes get puffed, slap myself to aware of what is going around behave like nothing has me. The eeriness around does not happened. The wires inside me scare me much ,somehow it has perplexed with dark clouds been out of my mind why this rubbing against friction creating darker, wander out venue making confusion within. While lying on me feel the appealing of this the nomad land , the pre- place. Sounds weird but the occupied mind seems so relaxed warmth of this nomad place at the moment nothing to worry portrays my soul hidden in the about, enjoying the loneliness past when I was broken, and solitary lanes seem so devastated and craving for familiar. wrinkles on my nothing but loneliness. Presently, forehead does not reappear as I am in a condition atleast where I much as it used to. It feels strange can breathe which does not but am familiar with it. The chokes me anymore, my chest is decibel-less silence enchanting not feeling heavy as much as it my nerves, bare skin feels was used to be. The screams, refreshed kissing me. Wrapping shrieks, words stuck in my throat, myself with silence and chilled sulking heart – these were my breeze fills me the sense of alive, common phases in my past. am still breathing, the cardiac cycles are continued. Sensing the pulse rate, it’s a victory for me to be alive till now and yet to fulfill my dreams.

EUDXKHILSAT 04 The maze of life awakens me with Let the wind blow, its hopeless thoughts creating a And low the mood bit better version everyday. The hustle and bustle within Hairlocks trying to jiggle on my craving me face. Wildness of thoughts Peace withstands with a sigh shredded to tears, hugs of solitude Left with a disturbed mind but now its embracing herself. The feelings i have been dealing Moments of joy which I long for with is discovered by me in the hidden As if the rum has thrown into woods, long walks, hugging gulps myself, creating smiles around to to push forward the dreams. spread happiness. Just some time, The craters in the world some hope, a bit of will and some are yet to fill magic–it will be okay. Looking and the lessons I take up ahead from past seems a chapter leave me alone at the midway. made to make me a bit stronger Its still early to give up trying to challenge me with its A long way to go storm haze of darkness, crying Go ahead!! apart leading to discovering new limits, setting a new pair of boundaries trying to keep the soul alive for a reason.

EUDXKHILSAT WHY DO PEOPLE STOP 05 DREAMING LESS THE MORE THEY GROW? by Akhilesh Nambiar @cynba_writes No matter how long life gets we Why doesn't anyone think that tend to compare ourselves with the more you tend to stop that others and try to make others little kid from trying, the more problem as our own and hardly he'll drown. The more he'll lose have time to live our own life. trust and never try again. It's true Who to listen to? The heart or the that for now, The things we have, mind? Family or relative? friends our basic needs,our necessities or enemy?Whatever they say satisfy us. But are we really becomes a part of what we do. happy? The things we like and Listening to elders is giving adore,the things we want to respect and ordering us to listen is do,those things are simply taken their authority, there is nothing away from us by the elders of the else beyond that. Did anyone house but why? It's said that in even care to ask what that order to live life to its full particular person wants? For even potential, one life isn't enough. a slight second, did that person Something always gets left out ever feel a sense of ease that but no one ever said that till the someone is there to listen to him? time you're alive, you stop living Someone who believes in him? itself right? Your dreams are like a Each person wants his own golden egg. Nurture them, take freedom but for some people, care of them. Never forget! that's just a mere dream. Due to Whether your goals are one or a their livelihood and earning, they thousand.... Whether never get this opportunity. They it's small or an impossible one. just keep on working like a slave Keep trying to achieve them. for other people until one day Never give up. Atleast then you they just die. What we have is won't feel sorry for yourself enough, so don't think further. because life isn't carrying you, Dream is one, not many so it's you are carrying life. With you useless wasting time upon it but efforts,on your own, always why? Why do people stop remember dreaming less the more they grow? Why does their life become so small?

EUDXKHILSAT NATURE: THE 06 ULTIMATE PROTECTOR AND DESTROYER by Jaya Ajiti Sarraf @ajitijaya Have you heard, in Delhi there is We all are aware of issues related an oxygen bar, where you can with environmental degradation have purified oxygen by paying and it's disastrous effects. It's money? Do you ever pay money high time to repair the damage to any plant for providing we have done in our oxygen? No, we never pay environment. Because the act of anything in return to plants for destroying fascinating nature is providing oxygen, the most showing equal and opposite fundamental element to sustain reaction that is climate change, life on earth. Infact we never took rising sea level, frequently care of nature, the most occurance of cyclone and other important thing for leading a disaster like landslides, urban healthy life. floods etc. And it is adversely \"Paryavaran\" or nature, a word hitting human societies along which we use so frequently but with harming the animals and we never really pay attention to it. plants. We need to minimise the We burn forest, we clear whole amount of waste, be it solid, mountains just to bring liquid or gas. And we need to development. We human destroy manage and adjust everything that we touch. We are developmental projects according poisoning streams by discharging to the need of environment. enormous amount of waste Because development which material in it, we pollute land by causes degradation in clearing vegetation, degrading environment will never be grasslands and using land beneficial for us. We have to mindlessly everywhere. We even remember that we are part of the disturbed natural composition of environment, and environment is gases in atmosphere. We brought ultimate creator, protector and development for humans with destructor. It's time to act rather disaster for whole living than merely discussing the issue community. on different forum.

EUDXKHILSAT FOOD BANK LINES 07 by Stephanie @poemsbystephanie1 What do food banks do? How can you help your local food bank? Food banks are important services which help people who Any help you can give your local cannot afford food every week. food bank really helps them to The food bank lines are bigger help more people. You can and longer with winter on the donate bags where they can keep way. We now have to create their things. Giving old cloths warm spaces, so people can be away can help people stay warm warm. Its heart breaking to see through winter. Help is always some people looking ashamed of needed. We always have people being there. In my opinion wealth handing in food and old clothes, should be shared and not kept to and I can tell you it really helps the 5% of people in the world people who can't buy clothes. which is what makes me angry. If you don't have food banks where you live and you want to help people then, you can make food at home and give it to your local church and they will pass it on to the people who need it.

EUDXKHILSAT DO NOT BELIEVE 08 EVERYTHING YOU THINK by Stephanie @poemsbystephanie1 Mental health Sending a message to someone asking how they are can really This is based on my own journey help them deal with their with mental health, which has led thoughts. Art and craft can always me to create a safe space for be of big help. It can take your people to just come and talk. mind off of how you are feeling. It's the little things that always In creating the safe space, my aim help! was to give people a space where they can just say how they are feeling. So often people just think that it's an act when it is not. There are times when you just want people to listen to you in a time when it is needed. I am lucky enough to have my younger sister as my support but I know everyone don't have such kind of a support. There is help out there, for when you need it, reach out to a family member or even a friend. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, I have a safe space on Instagram where you can have a chat if you need it. I suffer with depression and anxiety and in my early living, I didn't have many people I could turn to.

EUDXKHILSAT TIME MERGES AND 09 MELDS. THE PAST IS ALWAYS WITH US. by Caz Jones @carolyn_davies_jones The scent of sweet incense carries Families stand at graves laughing on the light breeze on Hong Kong and singing, sharing memories, island; flecks of ash gentle and retelling their stories. white rest upon darkened crowns and polychrome shoulders. Mistakes made. Lessons learned. No one noticed, no one cares. This is what grief looks like. A ceremony, a ritual, a celebration. I sit atop the stone steps as a wild A liturgy dog forages in the discarded Laying down routes and paths rubbish bag of a visiting family. I before we arrived. Having watch as he tears through the painstakingly paved the way. We plastic and chews. are on this journey together. Those who are gone, come along The dead never leave us, they us. never truly die. Always. Remnants of who they are live on through stories, shared narratived of those they've left behind.

EUDXKHILSAT HURT PEOPLE 10 HURT PEOPLE by Esan Erioluwa @theking.eri Y'know, Drink up with me I guess we're all just... So we won't have to think We're all just looking for a happy Admit it, your innocence is lost, ending somewhere... And you're plotting on revenge Drink with me, love On who? Life! spill your tears in this cup It stole I know life has been mean You want revenge But cheer up, you're with me But you know you don't stand a chance For the broken-hearted, Whom life has cheated, Ah Yes! And stole their innocence You will take it out on any unrelated person Know life cheated you You will bleed into every Shattered your soul and goodness relationship, every friendship of heart You will infect your lovers with Agree, you didn't deserve it your sadness and pain And neither did I You will become a plague You can't help it Wounds only heal The scars never leave I see you

EUDXKHILSAT HURT PEOPLE 11 HURT PEOPLE by Esan Erioluwa @theking.eri It's not you fault, I concur You are a lost soul, I understand You were pure and naive, with you good intentions You blame God, Life could have been good to you You blame us, It should have been You blame yourself But, now look! You blame this accursed world, And the laws they set I understand you I know how you think If life was a person, you will cut him A thousand cuts with a thousand blunt knives Just so he feels the agony you feel So he bleeds how you bleed If you were god, You would protect the naive and pure souls From the jaws of the wicked wolves You would make sure their innocence is preserved

EUDXKHILSAT AN OLD LETTER 12 DELIVERED TODAY by Aafiya Siddiqui @scribbled_aafiyat At soft knocks of zephyrs Today it sang for a letter of FAR SCENTED Sealed in cover, ragged and I opened my eyes to a morning FRAYED BRIGHT Marked of place with memories Tufts of clouds, alike petals BRIGHT FRAYED Begetting the lost rhythm of Hovering fondly on my window HEART WIDE Leaf sallow soaked, stained, Enlivened with gold, blue sky SCENTED beckons from FAR In salt tears, according smiles, \"Today's different\" faintly bright and WIDE whispered my HEART From lady of all wool and a yarn I wondered how instinctual my WIDE HEART Who lived over the hills and FAR Could be, in catching the signs of Away, in quaint valley of zephyrs SCENTED SCENTED Laden with dreams, the Flower, where summers never wanderers of FAR FRAYED Mist of bygones or preludes of As much though winter bloomed, morrows BRIGHT HEART Soon a clarion call abridged my Cries out loud to all those focus WIDE memories BRIGHT Fast I leaped off bed, to gather all An old letter, ray of sunshinr thoughts that FRAYED BRIGHT Cuckoo, my doorbell with Lost its path to fate, lays now feathers FRAYED open WIDE Without fail sings out her HEART Paraphrasing all silent beats of With eyes yellow, round and my woeful HEART WIDE Asserting kindered souls never Fixed at door, waits in corner goes aFAR SCENTED They know of tears dried and Adding warmth with colours your smiles FRAYED BRIGHT Comes to give you warmth as the Alike the morning sun shining air SCENTED aFAR Eyes now gleaming BRIGHT with tears that traveled FAR No more at window WIDE, clouds or thoughts were FRAYED Solace steeped my HEART, in fragrance of Zephyrs SCENTED

EUDXKHILSAT WHAT IF, ONE DAY, IT'S 13 YOU!? by Mariyam Amjad @chilledandchique You think that you didn't do Was there someone sitting alone, anything wrong to anyone. You looking restless, different from think that you never hurt anyone. everyone else? Did you ask them if they're okay? Or did you not? But what if you did? What if Or you did see them but chose to you're the reason why someone ignore them? wants to end their life? Or atleast think about doing so? Is there anyone sitting alone at their table during the lunch time? What if you ignored someone's Did you invite them over to your cries who just needed to be table? Did you check up on them? listened to? Or what if you Did you asked them as to why casually left a friend who thought they're sitting alone? of you as a closed one? Or may be you joked about someone's How often all of us tend to ignore insecurities without even things happening right in front of knowing you did so? our eyes. I get it, you don't have time, you're busy or with friends, What if you did notice something occupied. But you do notice strange about someone & still everything, you see everything chose to ignore it? And what and everyone, but you chose to happens when you realise that if ignore it because it's not your you could've been a little less responsibility to look out for ignorant, things could've been other people. different for someone? But what all it takes to be a bit Did you look there at the row just kind & considerate towards by the window, in your class? people around you? What if, one day, it's you!?

EUDXKHILSAT A DEFECTIVE 14 PROGRAMMER by Rakshita @guldaari from sometime in the past But_This_Is_What_Truth_is = import a memory that doesn't [yourBreath in between poppies burn your throat as you⁣import and somewhere, someone is your nimbling nightmare as gripping on to it for their remorse⁣ survival/you have written enough last notes after the sun sets you = [a vigorous vindicative down/but it's not how it violation of vilifying vengeance]⁣ works,you are amalgamating yourFingers = [a heart-throb yourFingers between the layers of inducing mechanism]⁣ scrimpy laughter/you are looking yourBreaths = [an unnecessary forward to live]⁣ reminiscence]⁣ yourLife =[whatever it takes to return end it]⁣ you.whateverIsLeftOfYou()⁣ def map(grief):⁣ def isItYou():⁣ #{your soft fingertips} != #there are no variables here, because nothing is variating, {atavism of your survival}⁣ everything/like you/is constant. ⁣ if (yourFingers != map(grief)):⁣ try:⁣ This_Is_Probably_What_Your_ print(\"//Dear you, this is an Mind_Tells_You =[how come yourBreaths sits aligned with odd(/e) poem - to you/for semantics of your life/why have you/from you//\")⁣ you not stopped the air to reach your lungs/why has none of except nights hit you yet/or better, why you.aMidnightYouWouldCeaseT hasn't it killed you]⁣ oForget:⁣ print(\"Midnight is a happy place to be, I think that is why you dissect it the most - Into a doctrinaire of how to end things with yourself.\")⁣

EUDXKHILSAT A DEFECTIVE 15 PROGRAMMER by Rakshita @guldaari [ Mid-Life Crisis Error! What a you.LookAtYourself(let it be pity that midnight has stretched something other than a grimace)⁣ over your tongue, crippling it into tokens. Tell us, what would you you.LookAtYourself(let it be like to be? with care, craving and clemency)⁣ -> syntax-devoid casualty⁣ return SomethingBeyondGrief⁣ -> a mishap of semicolons at the end⁣ { remorse.IsPentingUp() and -> disarray of a classified outlier⁣ remorse.WillEndUpBlastingThro -> predicates tuning in and out ughYourVeins() or like time-waves⁣ remorse.WillRecurToYouUntilTh isLoopEnds }⁣ or maybe nothing? because, I am writing this without you think this will somehow end parentheses,⁣ with an Error 404 anyway] ...⁣ Because what's the point of print(You are something hovering over the errors?⁣ plenary when it comes to completeness of whatever we are Your art is a woman. drafting together. There is She is lying on your bed - something missing here, within With her bones broken. you and you just don't seem to You can think about her noti– ) -> without debugging,⁣ I can write about her without print(\"You are something programming. plenary when it comes to Semicolons are diminishing,⁣ completeness of whatever we are I don't have to import anything drafting together. There is else something missing here, within To watch her dance, again. you and you just noticed it, well You call her (fire) without a and good.\" )⁣ predicate,⁣ She surpasses you in every flavor.

EUDXKHILSAT A DEFECTIVE 16 PROGRAMMER by Rakshita @guldaari if remorse.DoesNotStop:⁣ i⁣f __name__ == \"__main__\":⁣ yourHeartBeatWill⁣ This comes to an end - a disastrous program, and you. ⁣ Else:⁣ ThereIsNothingElseLeft ⁣ {(you + remorse + grief + But don't you worry,⁣ malevolence) - (pleasure + of + Your art is a woman and her being + alive) {some arithmetic operator that doesn't affect this body doesn't melt from gasoline equation of human realm}} = [ the inhalation,⁣ joy of blocking ducts of your body/blood has turned She requires more. ⁣ sapphire/air is rancid around A gut-wrecking love,⁣ you/but p̶e̶o̶ p̶l̶ e̶ c̶ ̶a̶n̶'̶t̶ s̶ ̶e̶e̶m̶ t̶̶ o̶ l̶̶ e̶t̶ A bone-crushing smile,⁣ y̶ ̶o̶ u̶ g̶ ̶o̶ you can't let people go/your body has always been on A heart-punching breath. ⁣ fire/why does it matter of nobody More. ⁣ sets it aflame now/you know More.⁣ deep down that you're burning/die, die, die/kill, kill, More. ⁣ kill/evaporate, evaporate, She needs more. ⁣ evaporate/only don't]⁣ She needs more than 270 lines of a run-time environment. ⁣ You - who often gloats at herself,⁣ She needs more than a compiler to compile⁣ You - who debars every striking gesture,⁣ Her sparred thoughts and scathing desires. ⁣ You - who strips back into bareness. She needs more than life,⁣ She needs the end of it.

EUDXKHILSAT A DEFECTIVE 17 PROGRAMMER by Rakshita @guldaari iSea is too big of a universe to sit # Clock strikes 5.00 a.m ⁣ in,⁣ # Time for you to waver into obsidian⁣ But not big enough to grip in. ⁣ # Sleep now, friend⁣ Your head is a venomously # Because this is an ode for vicious place.⁣ being you⁣ [ khuda, why am I like this -⁣ # Midnight is stretching /like this : musht-e-khaak/like a beyond your jaw⁣ soft dream on crook of your # Shaped like your end⁣ neck/like last breath before the # Until you decide how your roz-e-jaza/like craters on a lover's end is programmed⁣ lips/like the taghaful between # You are stuck in the loop of hearts/like the harj written in life⁣ your fate/like the talkh stare of # Let's meet tonight, again?⁣ men on your body/⁣ Your head goes on and on. ⁣ You keep this incomplete, ⁣ Because you are bad at this. ⁣ At programming, and love. ⁣ So, you keep yourself in loop. ⁣ doWhile(you.Exist()):⁣ BurnOutYourHeartThinking(Wh y must I be terrible at something I love so dearly?)⁣ Until(SomethingStartsDisintegrati ngIntoRegret)