SAM Frida

I finally got clarity on why I absolutely hate calling customer support. It’s not the wait times. It’s not even the bad hold music. It’s that every interaction feels like a theft of my time. I value authenticity above all else—so when I’m met with a rehearsed script,...

I often wonder—how do we really get people to step into another’s shoes? To not just imagine, but feel what it’s like to live behind someone else’s eyes? Through my own journey, I’ve come to see the heart and mind as two storytellers. The heart has its own rhythm, its...

When we strip away the politics, the military strategies, and the endless “peace talks,” what remains at the heart of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is something profoundly simple: human beings yearning for dignity, security, and home. Palestinians have a right to...

If international law is supposed to protect the most basic right—the right to live—then why does it so often feel powerless when lives are in the hands of powers that don’t value them? We have treaties, conventions, and declarations written with noble intentions, yet...

We live in a world that craves neat definitions — empath, intellect, giver, taker, strong, fragile. But what if you are all of them at once? What if your contradictions are not flaws to fix but truths to hold? Being human often means living in paradox. You can be...

Most of life feels like a performance. Smiles, scripts, small talk. Safe answers. But once your mind stretches past the surface, you can’t go back — shallow waters feel suffocating. I keep my circle small now. Only people who think. Who don’t answer from fear. Who...

That screenshot stopped me in my tracks. “If they never heard your side of the story, then the side they did hear is just a reflection of how they already felt about you.” That hit me. Because for so long, I chased after people to understand me. I thought if I...

Narcissists rarely operate in isolation. Their entitlement and abuse often thrive in the fertile ground provided by enablers — those who look the other way, excuse the behavior, or advise others to “just let it go in one ear and out the other.” Some call this a skill...

https://youtu.be/yDVl3WHoymI?feature=shared You gotta find your peopleThe ones that make you feel alrightThe kind you want to stay up with all nightYou got to find your peopleThe ones that make you feel wholeThat won't leave your side when you lose controlThe ones...