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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. - Carl Jung

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by Sergio Heads

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by Roberto Bertero

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Paying It Forward with @shaistadeen

To see more of Shaista’s life and work, follow @shaistadeen on Instagram.

Photographer Shaista Deen (@shaistadeen) is giving the world the role model she wanted. “Growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, I never saw any female hijabi photographers,” says the 22-year-old great-great-granddaughter of Indian immigrants.

At age 14, she saved up for her first camera. With a bedroom desk lamp as her studio light and a stack of books as a tripod, she captured what was closest: her friends, her family and herself. “I was very different with regards to the way I saw myself back then,” she remembers. “I was depressed for a period of time as a teenager. Photography was one of the main things that helped me out of that. I was extremely insecure about myself, pessimistic and doubted my abilities a lot. After I was able to get past all of that, I wanted to help others do the same.”

Now, she’s a university student (and freelance photographer) living in the UK, but Shaista misses her homeland — and the Caribbean sun. “I love my little island and I’m proud of where I’m from,” she says.

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Eight Ways to Remember Anything by Alex Lickerman M.D.

Reference: Research-based strategies to boost your memory and keep it strong via psychology today

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“Before you say yes, get him angry. See him scared, see him wanting, see him sick. Stress changes a person. Find out if he drinks and if he does, get him drunk - you’ll learn more about his sober thoughts. Discover his addictions. See if he puts you in front of them. You can’t change people, baby girl. If they are made one way, it doesn’t just wear off. If you hate how he acts when he’s out of it now, you’re going to hate it much worse eight years down the road. You might love him to bits but it doesn’t change that some people just don’t fit.”

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inkskinned, “My father’s recipe for the man I should marry” (via partygirlmeltdown)

This is one of the most important things I have ever read and I wish I would have come across it sooner. This is real, this is important.

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wow thank you so much!! be safe out there okay?

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Dear Me, one day I’ll make you proud.

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A love that at my weakest has taught me how to conquer the darkest side within me… A love that at my poorest has taught me to share what I have left to others… A love that at my dumbest has taught me to dare to admit that I know nothing and I need to learn… A love that when I feel unworthy has taught me to love my self… A love… no one knows but you and I

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Hope is dangerous. It’s vindictive… It’s heartbreaking at times. I can’t even remember how many times I have been let down by my own “hope” in people that I knew were incapable of change. I cannot fix you, nor do I want to. I simply want to know that at the end of the day, when the night is calling and I start to feel the void in my heart where you left me bruised; that you are somewhere thinking about me too.- Day 6

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Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

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