Metaphors & Medicine

Push yourself to your limits and past them. Don't give up even when you're on the verge of it. Maintain every ounce of power you have, even if it's only a bit. If you're really passionate about something, don't let others' opinions stop you. In fact, do it just because they said you couldn't. And if you feel afraid to, that's the perfect time to look yourself in the mirror and say, "I'm only here because I did everything I was afraid to do". Once you've done what you wanted to do, and people look at you in amazement, admire you for your courage, envy you for your confidence, remind yourself every time you feel that fear again, that it's the perfect time to push yourself when you're afraid. Keeping wishing :) -Wishful Dreamer

"All of a sudden there were people screaming. I saw people jumping out of the building. Their arms were flailing. I stopped taking pictures and started crying."  -Machael Walters 11 years ago, I remember coming home in the middle of the school day to sit in front of the TV with my mother and watch two big buildings fall into a cape of billowing black smoke. People screamed in the background and the scene repeated. More people screamed and the buildings collapsed again, this time slower, slowly enough for us to realize how people's lives were going to change after that moment. Children lost fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles. People lost their best friends. Grown men lost their children. And even though we weren't anywhere near New York, we and nearly every other American Muslim lost something that day too. After that day, my mother was afraid to leave the house for days because of the hijab  on her head that clearly pointed her out in a group as a MUSLIM. She got ...