Tag: life
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When Giving Drains the Giver: A Love Letter to Those Who Forgot Themselves
I have spent a lifetime giving. Giving my time. Giving my energy. Giving my mind. And most dangerously — giving my heart. To people. To causes. To dreams that weren’t even mine. To those who took, not always with malice, but certainly without pause. The truth is, I never really learned to draw the line. Because it never felt like there should…
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A Love Letter from my Heart
Hello, It’s me — not the mind that strategises or the voice that speaks on stages. It’s the heart that beats quietly behind it all. The one that has stood by Salma through storms and sunshine. And today, with 60 days to go before we turn 55, I asked for this space. To speak. To…
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Mission Impossible – Final Countdown for the both of us
Back in 1996, when the first Mission Impossible movie hit the screens, I was 26, close to 90 kilos and gradually tipping the scale past 100. While Tom Cruise was leaping off buildings and outsmarting villains on screen, I was silently battling a mission of my own — the long, slow war against weight gain,…
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The Cool Man near the Pool
It was a regular connect. It was just a phone call. It was yet another day for me at work but little did I knew that it was all going to change. In any day to day lives, how often do we stop to think deep about the mundane things that we keep doing every…