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Malik's avatar

i sometimes imagine what I’m writing isn’t me, that it’s someone somewhere else and that there’re telling me their emotions and vulnerability. I use to think I can never be that vulnerable, almost pitiful?

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Zoha | زوھا's avatar

I actually resonate with that a lot

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Malik's avatar

Do I not have one unique feeling 🧍🏽‍♂️

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Zoha | زوھا's avatar

The human experience is a shared one, there there 🫂

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Malik's avatar

Framing this on a love live laugh wallpaper

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Aliena's avatar

I admire you for being so vulnerable in your writing and it’s the quality that drew me towards it in the first place. I have a hard time doing the same - feeling like I’m giving away too much of myself if I share too much. But I’m a very skeptical and guarded person in real life.

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Zoha | زوھا's avatar

Thank you love! I agree though I refuse to be too vulnerable I’ll write in such complex ways it’s difficult even for me to figure out where inspiration starts and where self ends lol

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afifa's avatar

loved this so much, i love the way you write!

Also I do find it difficult to be vulnerable in my writings, especially as someone who is so scared of being percieved, but I find it easier for me to write about myself in poems rather than prose or essays

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Zoha | زوھا's avatar

That’s so interesting! I can’t ever seem to explicitly write about myself ever, and post it atleast. If I do write it I never seem to be able to read it lol

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božica's avatar

As someone who started off writing poetry, I was always taught to be vulnerable with my writing. And for the most part, I am. But I still have a long way to go in overcoming the shame of being an open book. It's so hard being vulnerable, especially in today's nonchalance epidemic! Loved this btw <3

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نائلة's avatar

Somehow I find it easy to be vulnerable just because I long for a place where to put all the desperation that laces most of my actions, so I do it here lmfao

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Zoha | زوھا's avatar

Honestly, I love that. If it works it works I do not think vulnerability should ever be perceived as a weakness, shows how little you apologise for in terms of your own desires etc

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نائلة's avatar

Exactly~

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Leena S.'s avatar

“it’s so much easier to live in familiar misery than unknown progression” This! OMG it’s so hard to remain optimistic for a goal with no direction and familiarity is hard to beat. I think trusting Allah to know there is some hope and simply working towards pleasing Him makes that uncertainty a little easier to manage.

As for vulnerability in writing, I agree, I find it hard to be vulnerable as well. Mostly because I struggle to express my emotions. But I think there is a great deal of self-discovery and intimacy to be had with oneself by being vulnerable. And I am trying to be more expressive at least in my journal.

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Zoha | زوھا's avatar

That’s so beautiful mashallah 🫶🏽

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