Zikrayatna

I'm baaaaaaackkkkk! After a summer of prep before taking the next step of my educational and professional journey, I' m back to talk about what I did to get into law school!

Passions are tied to feelings which shape our perception of the world. This encompasses our internal processing- what goes in in our mind, bodies, and hearts-- as well as our external projections- how we communicate that to other people.

Out of everything that will ever happen in our lives, there is very little that we are entirely responsible for. Letting go of our entitlement helps us come to terms with this. At the end of the day, all we can do is take care of what's in our bubble and enjoy the process.

Imagination, creativity, curiosity, love, and grace are essential to transforming our life and the world around us. But in a world where we spend all our energy stuck in routines, we have to train ourselves to develop those characteristics.

For the first episode of the Heart2Heart podcast, I reflect on my biggest accomplishment of 2024: putting on the hijab. There were several reasons why I put it on. Of course the most important are for religious purposes, but also as a feminist act. To me, the hijab was a way to address how others perceive me in a world where bodies are objectified and imagined in ways outside of our control. On the one hand it is an act out of submission to Allah swt, on the other hand it's a way to liberate myself from the gaze of others (or at least, try to claim more control over it).