The ocean is deep like my secrets

“People who study anatomy and the development of the eye have shown that the retina is, in fact, the brain: in the development of the embryo, a piece of the brain comes out in front, and long fibers grow back, connecting the eyes to the brain. The retina is organized in just the way the brain is organized and, as someone has beautifully put it, “The brain has developed a way to look out upon the world.” The eye is a piece of brain that is touching light, so to speak, on the outside.”

alhamdulilah, alhamdulilah. 💙

They don’t prepare you for the amount of tears that become oceans - they don’t prepare you for the thoughts of drowning in them instead of choosing to swim through them. They don’t prepare you for the incessant thoughts that become obsessions of choosing to be gone, taking the chances of the punishment of what’s to come over what you’ve already experienced, experiencing. Because maybe the pain of the Hereafter is one you’re willing to endure more than the pain of the dunyah.

whenever you don’t feel motivated to work, just imagine your future self. if you do the work when you’re supposed to, your future self will be calm, collected and be able to keep working at a steady rate (and eventually finish the task at hand, stress-free). if you don’t do the work when you’re supposed to, your future self will be rushing around, trying to complete things they should have done before, and overly anxious and stressed. be kind to your future self and do the work now.

Salam, you made a post about not hating this life, and instead, seeing it as a tool or a stepping stone for the afterlife. I can't find it, can you link it for me, please?