Thank you for wishing this soul

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From one birthday to another, many things take place, many things change.

This day, another chapter opens afresh in the book called my life.

As I woke up to a cold wintry morning, sun rays gleefully peeped in through the flowery chasms of the lace curtain casing the windows.

There is unexplainable energy surrounding me as if the day has suddenly got a thousand wings.

Everything seems fresh and new, Just like someone has painted my sky with rainbow coloured clouds and gleaming bluish green unnamed birds.

Last year had been too intense.

I was intensely happy, intensely sad, intensely hurt, intensely hopeful, intensely disappointed an intensely blessed.

On my last birthday, I thought Finally, I have learnt all the big lessons life had to teach me. But I was ashamedly wrong. I gained some of the significant lessons this year, and I am thankful.

Amid understandings and misunderstandings, I continue to stride in the road I have chosen for me, the road less travelled. Not everyone understands your journey let alone supports you. But I am grateful for everyone.

I love my imperfections as well as perfections because that is the authentic mee.

I embrace my whole self with humble pride. <3

I discovered am an ‘Empath’ which makes sense of my deeper reading of the people around me. Of course, this is why I am highly intuitive too.

Some specific experiences are sensed once in a lifetime. I have been fortunate enough to live through such rejoicing moments. I thank my God, Alhamdulillah.

I have grown more compassionate, more inclusive and more sensitive to the world around me.

I have 1001 unfinished tasks and deadlines…

But I feel a strange sense of contentment, tranquillity and happiness.

The aroma of chrysanthemums encircling me. I have arranged them in a vase tonight. The bunch has flowers of three colours.

Yellow for being gentle &compassionate

Pink for finery & inner beauty

And purple for being the blend of soft and strong and being MEE

I would have prefered a few white flowers too, for their purity and serenity. They also reflect birth as well as death.

Thank you for wishing this soul

Abundant love; stay blessed.

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Shameela Yoosuf Ali