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You Are Enough...

You Are Enough…

No, you don’t have to be famous to be amazing.

I am seeing, everyday, people wishing for fame like it is the only way to be successful. If you don’t sing, or act, or jump really high and do 14 flips in the air, then you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing.

I have seen people who are kind, smart, hardworking, and are only known to their groups of friends. They are not famous, but they…

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I'm a what now?

I’m a what now?

There should be a class on adulthood; something along the lines of “here is how to do your taxes,” “thats how your balance a checkbook,” “Sleeping late is just past you messing with future you,” and “Yes, you can walk out of a movie if you don’t like it, and that applies to just about everything else”

I’m 28 years old and I still feel like I was flung into being someone responsible for keeping my…

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Oh! What a Year Will Do To You...

Oh! What a Year Will Do To You…

I don’t think anything about this year was normal. Not for me, not for anyone, but for the sake of being realistic, and acknowledging that I know little to jack shit about what is happening in the world and to everyone around me, I will only- selfishly- discuss the aspects of my own life within the year that ends the decade. I will consider this a letter in a glass bottle, meant to be read by no…

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Do we know what roads to take?

Or what decisions we should make? You see we grow up and call ourselves responsible, when, in reality, we have no idea what we’re doing. You see a mom holding her kid and think she has it under control, when she’s almost at her breaking point. You see a man in a suit and think he has it all together, when he almost lost his job a day before. The problem is that we think that seeing someone that…

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Ones and Zeros

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Overachievers Unite! My life is a series of 1s and 0s and I do not know a middle ground. There is always more to do, more to be, things I can take up, new hobbies I can add to the cannon of things I want to be good at. There is always a new place to visit, a new project to take on, new people to befriend, bigger dreams to achieve. Or There is nothing I do not know how to balance, I think. I am…

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On Microphones

Ever since I was a little child, I have loved microphones. I used to have a small, colorful one that was attached to a tiny stereo and I used to go around cafes asking people what they wanted to listen to. When I grew up, I found another way to stand in front of a microphone and speak, this time in poems and versus. I am not really sure why I love it so much, is it the feeling of being listened…

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And I miss All the people I should not miss Those who flew away Those who were taken And those that turned sour Soon as I started calling them Home #videopicture #picturevideo #photovideo #photography #photos #poemandapic #picturepoem #missing #leaving #staying #love (at Cairo, Egypt)

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Weekday Stats

Everything goes around and comes around and there is Karma and you have things coming for you and things coming to you and we live in a time when the idea of relaxation is as crazy as finding a diamond ring inside a puffer fish in waters that don’t have  puffer fish and this sentence just ran for way too long. This weekend, I did nothing, and by nothing I mean, I’d wake up, fend for food then…

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Catharsis

Talking helps, sometimes Sometimes it’s a long run, sometimes a dance party of one, sometimes nothing helps Catharsis, however, is important, immediate, and sometimes, vital. Catharsis is not just important,  it is sometimes the only way to let out emotions of anger, worry, sadness or just being lost. Catharsis is the difference between staying in bed all day and being able to talk to people on…

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Consider This

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We all go through unrequited love; be it romantic or platonic, but we all have felt things for a other person that we did not find they returned. The first thing that comes to mind is usually that something is wrong with us, that we cannot be good enough and that is why they look through us like cellophane (cellophane, Mr. Cellophane) anyway. The state of mind that we put ourselves in the process…

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Let me write

Let me tell you about my brain or what I like to call the voice in my head I go through the days like there is a  continuous deadline, like there is something I have to be doing every day, like I’m running after something that I do not know, yet. Let me tell you about my day I go through different faces. Someone, a while ago, said that we’re all wearing perpetual masks, no knowing who we really…

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When the lamp was first made, people said the lights will shine so bright, we won't see the stars. They lit up everything, from homes to work places and streets. The light took over everything. It wasn't that we can't see the stars now, it's that we forgot they still existed. We lit up homes to stay up late without going outside. We lit up our offices so that we can work 16 hour days and never see our families. We lit up the streets and started driving as fast as we can, forgetting to look out the window and see the journey. The stars weren't there to be our light source; the stars were there to have us slow down, breathe, look up and clear our minds. Look at the stars, even if it's only to breathe. Photo by @heyitsjee #haidyzakaria #blog #365 #365series #writerphotographer #love #loves #writing #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #diary #shortstory #poetsofig #igpoets #photographersofinstagram #instaphotographer #instawriter #instablog #egypt #whyIwrite #igwriters #travel #travelwriter #storyandapicture #talnts #blogger #blogging #storyofmylife

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This time was special, I think. There were so many new talents at our doors, so many different people in front of the mic. I keep getting surprised every time that there are still poets I am yet to see, that they're there, in the fold of Egypt, hiding, waiting. I hope they all get to know that there is something like The Word Project that would love to host them. I hope they know that it is always my honor when they come up to me and tell me how they enjoyed their night. Here is the trailer for the 8th session. Here is the first spoken word poetry platform in Egypt, a dream realized. #thewordproject #word #project #slampoetry #poetryslam #spokenword #cairo #poetic #love #loves #writing #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #igpoets #poet #writerlife #whyIwrite #music #musician #summer #القاهرة #مشروع_كلمة #شعر #مزيكا #غني #مصر #nights #signup #perform

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Trying to find out if people still read poetry books...would you download/buy a poetry ebook? #haidyzakariapoetry #poet #365 #365series #haidyzakaria #poetic #love #loves #writing #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #poetsuntold #drunkpoetssociety #poetsofig #igpoets #poetscommunity #instapoet #typewriterpoetry #writerlife #whyIwrite #igwriters #dreamsmatter #poetrybook #publishing