Sunday, 1 October 2017

Daylight Savings Begins

    Within the current moments, I feel as if I’m floating in this unforgiving pool of life’s bubbles. Each bubble containing memories and persons where the word ‘expectation’ or ‘impact’ became their link to one another. What I seem to gather is that the link is rather brittle, to a point of disconnection. Maybe one day it will sink into forgetfulness? But that is not what the soul experiences. I honestly believe that there is no way for a person to truly forget things that happen in their lives. It may come from the belief of accountability in an afterlife, though. You wouldn’t be made accountable if you can’t realize the actions you’ve made within consciousness. Maybe even as one experiences memory loss due to sickness of age, it just stays cooped up somewhere in the subconscious mind or whatever the psychological term is. It’s really a scary thought, especially reflecting upon my grandmother’s experience of memory loss through the awful strokes she went through. I just hope throughout her days that she maintains a state of bliss that people surrounding her wouldn’t understand. Like a secret pact between her and God. I only hope that I may achieve the same thing. 


    They say the best way to endure life is to always remember God and to let your problems be given to God. As well as to remember God as being merciful towards the mistakes we made and that He ultimately forgives them. I hope and pray to the highest heavens that I do not blaspheme as I say this but, it’s not exactly working out for me. I don’t know, perhaps it is due to my failures of making sincere and calculated prayers. And just that maybe I do not always paint a nice picture of God all the time. “The way your Creator is to you depends on how you make Him to be". I mean I guess that makes sense...but really though shouldn't it be more of an independent factor? Shouldn't my Creator just be The Most Forgiving, Most Merciful without my asshole-ish tendencies to not realize His qualities shining through what I have around me that is great and wonderful? I guess the words within the quotation marks refer to the character of the believer more than it is towards the factual qualities of the Creator. I've always dreamt of a life where I constantly think of God just swiftly out of nature. But even the Prophet (as well as the Quran) acknowledges how it is impossible for a human being to not be forgetful. Until then, that's where the struggle, the Jihad, lies upon I think.

    Life, is just so fricken' scary a lot of times. I don't know if I'm going to be okay in the future based on what's happening now. What is decreed and what is in my control can be utterly confusing to tell apart. And I end up getting stuck in a limbo of distraction (watching shows, re-reading Bachelorette recaps and look up pictures of pretty celebrities) to make myself calm...until the point I realize that I wasted time and missed out on good opportunities. I worry so much about loss, in regards to friends, intellect, and personal growth. The prospects of a healthy love life feels unreachable at times especially when I am still pinging on a past significant other(s). I am terribly frightened of people who know me, who knew my secrets, and the feeling that they may think lowly of me or spread that perspective on others. I am also afraid that I will never stop making my mother and other family feel burdened by the problems I have, and that they may resent me for the mistakes I have done. And I am especially afraid of my past sins haunting me, making me feel less of a person in the eyes of God.

    But with all of that said, I still need to remember that things are actually fine. Well, those current "issues" I ruminate about are still very real to me but there's still some light to all of this. That in the big picture, the flaws I have are forgiven, that things will be better. 





Supplication for anxiety and sorrow




O Allaah, I take refuge in You from anxiety and sorrow, weakness and laziness, miserliness and cowardice, the burden of debts and from being over powered by men.



Tuesday, 27 October 2015

To what blessings of Allah will you come to deny?
Or at least that is the gist of the holy excerpt.

Oh Allah, for the longest time, this trip with you is none more than a violent sail
The clouds, storms and calm, all in one and all important
Yet you still let me sail and view the world unlike I have ever seen before
I was given contacts in the past few days, my vision is clearer than ever
But I still fail to see what I've become and I still fail to see what I have wasted

Through songs I kept reciting at heart "I've tried my best, I've tried in vain"
But the world is a mess! Oh the world is a mess!
Not seeing that it is I who made it that way

I am ashamed to turn to you,
but then who can I turn to but you?
But I am ashamed to let you see me
Yet you see me as me and not as the weakling I claim to be

How do I learn to love you, how do I learn to see?

I long to be a good person,
But my reasons fail me,
Please allow me to see how I can do this with you
and perhaps for you

With my inner vision impaired, please hold my hand
Please lift me away from the traps I have made
Guide me along until I find closure
No!
Guide me always and never let me find closure
For closure and comfort will bring me closer to my undoing
And allow me to be idle-minded, forgetful

So maybe, at least and at most,
Help me, remind me to see
The smiles of my friends and family
The smile of Omar
My mother
My sister
Let me see my father's smile
Even if it means looking at my own self
Block away the filth I have

Let me see the loveliness of small talk
with the strangers I meet
and the people I love

Let me see that nothing is in vain,
That all will unfold discretely,
If I am unable to see it because of my own impatient tendency
Remind me of patience, remind me of death
Remind me of strength and remind me of beauty
Remind me of you as you are my final destination

There's no more I can say, although I would love to have said more
But InsyaAllah, I will
for my own sake, I will




Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Calm

"Walked a few hours to sit outside your apartment window and I don't know if I should call you" - Isabella Sosa from Vine

This almost precisely describes the kind of feeling I have back when we were only a few blocks apart and now that I'm miles away from you.

Sitting at the bench in front of your dorm house, thinking about you excruciatingly inside my room. It's never easy to come to you, I give up a lot of myself in the process. But I would do it for you, I would do almost everything for you. 

Almost...

Because one thing I couldn't do, no matter how much I try to convince myself, no matter how many times that try takes, is to let go of you. Is to leave you.

Maybe this is an unhealthy attachment. Maybe I'm just a stupid person.
Maybe...

And you are far away now. It's a lot more confusing but at times it brings bliss. I realize the importance of valuing our own lives before valuing each others'. At this stage, I am more accepting, less aggressive. 

But if our minds would fuse its way to the material world...
I am still sitting outside,
Thinking to call you and telling myself not to,
And I would most of the time, do it anyway.
I am losing strands of hair every minute!
I am now watching the OVA episodes of Attack on Titan.
I am also wearing a scarf around my forehead so that I may not disturb it!
What should I do today? Hmmm
1. Look over a friends essay
2. Start the painting of Omar
3. Re-learn the first guitar lesson
4. Sleep

Oh number four, you look so sexy.

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Sigh

Things I want to do or have but (might have) missed the chance... [Mostly concerts]

Numero Uno:

SEVEN SWANS by Sufjan Stevens





If I'm not mistaken, this album is almost a decade old. But it's the first album I felt like I NEEDED to have in my possession. As my sister was hunting for my graduation present, she told me the only Sufjan Stevens album available in Rock Corner is 'Age of Adz', which she remarked as "too weird, don't think you'll like it" (she bought a Michael Jackson encyclopedia, which was really lovely of her :) ) I did listen to a few tracks from Age of Adz, and she was right. But I think anything produced from the musical genius is a masterpiece and should be given a chance. So yeah might buy that album if it's still around the shelves. I'll be going on a second hand store hunt to find Seven Swans when I get to the US (InsyaAllah).



Number two:

Kings of Convenience DECLARATION OF DEPENDANCE TOUR








THEY CAME TO MALAYSIA AND I MISSED THEM! T_T
Gosh I am sooo devastated when I realize how utterly magnifique the DoD album was. I couldn't stop replaying "Me In You" and it never fails to bring me to tears!(exaggeration here) The song wasn't sad or anything, and I may sound cheesy by saying this, but the music is just that beautiful and moving. "24-25" gave me chills every time, the melody was humbling and safe-feeling. Like a song you'd always want to listen to when you're lying down in bed with nothing to do but cuddling a pillow or stuffed animal and listen to a soothing lullaby. When I was still in MRSM Langkawi in 10th grade, a dear friend told me that Kings of Convenience will be performing in Malaysia. Being that I was rather naive in terms of transportation and the fact that I was living in an island for almost the whole year, far far away from KL, I was very very disappointed(So is that friend btw). But at that time I only knew a few songs from them,("Misread" and "I'd rather dance") I never knew the existence of DoD and the fact that they were on tour for that particular album. But now, 3 years later when I had JUST fallen in love with that album, oy vey :'(



Number 3:

FOSTER THE PEOPLE



Again, this wonderful band came to Malaysia and I missed it. And it was the most unfortunate miss too, I was interested in the band after they came and the year they came was when I was more savvy and brave public transportation. I had enough dough too :/

And now for the most recent and MOST DEVASTATING(I think) miss:
THE XX COEXIST US TOUR






Needless to say, their tour will end at September, and the shows available when I'll be in the states are far far away from the place I reside.

Dang you Bonerland, why do you have so many huge states? T_T

Well it's okay, I guess I'll just have to experience a concert sometimes else. Hopefully when I'm more balanced in terms of income and husband.

That will be all.
-FIFOUT-