How is it that we’ve allowed ourselves to rush through our lives? It’s likely because we’ve bought into the idea of hustling, which requires one to constantly be focused on the future, incessantly setting goals, chasing them. To hustle, according to Oxford languages, is to...
Category: Essay
Ever since I was teenager, I was drawn to self-help instruction. Whether that be in the form of podcasts, books, or peers who were into self-development, I was there — soaking up as much as I could on ways to improve myself. This is an...
Death of the Five-Year Plan: We Should Stop Focusing on the Future and Instead Do This
posted by: aaliyahinspired
February 21, 2024
Almost immediately after I walked across the stage to get my diploma bearing my name above the title Bachelor of Arts, a subtle sense of unease came about: I didn’t know what my next steps were going to be. From preschool onward, we’re given a...
Dharma: The Lost Practice of Aligning With Your Deepest Desires
posted by: aaliyahinspired
February 15, 2024
It has become a common goal to turn passions into profit. This is an admirable thing and it’s about time we live in a world where someone can monetize something they love to do rather than suffer in a job that quite literally sucks the...
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a phrase all of us have heard or are familiar with. The American dream is built on the idea that everyone has the right to these three notions with heavy emphasis on the happiness part. People are...
Most of us live in a perception of a perception of ourselves. Meaning, the image we hold of ourselves is a combination of what we think others view us as and what we ideally want to be viewed as. There are many theories that support...
What does it mean to live an unobserved life? Oftentimes I find myself wishing that I could trade places with someone for a few moments just to witness myself from a different point of view. Not in a vanity type of way. Or in an...
Beauty Standards Be Damned: Why I Stopped Wearing Makeup
posted by: aaliyahinspired
March 15, 2023
Sephora hasn’t seen me in a while, and this is for one reason: I stopped wearing makeup. Ever since I can remember, putting on makeup in the morning and begrudging taking it off at night was a part of my daily routine. To be more...
Is it safe to make the assumption that most of us have been taught, what I like to call, “society’s template for success?” From observing others and their satisfaction with life after achieving “success,” the assumption seems to hold some weight. The template goes something...
There I was. On my ten hour flight back from London with a feeling of sadness; sadness from the fact that I was leaving London and sadness because of a guy. Yes, a guy. I’ve never been the one to be hung up over a...