Mai Gomaa

“ربما أعطاك فمنَعك، وربما منعَك فأعطاك، ومتى فتح لك باب الفهم في المنع صار المنع عين العطاء.”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري, الحِكم العطائية

“وحق الهوى أن الهـوى سبب الهـوى .. ولولا الهوى في القلب ما وجد الهوى”
― محيي الدين بن عربي

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

“Today, I slept in until 10,
Cleaned every dish I own,
Fought with the bank,
Took care of paperwork.
You and I might have different definitions of adulthood.
I don’t work for salary, I didn’t graduate from college,
But I don’t speak for others anymore,
And I don’t regret anything I can’t genuinely apologize for.
And my mother is proud of me.
I burnt down a house of depression,
I painted over murals of greyscale,
And it was hard to rewrite my life into one I wanted to live
But today, I want to live.
I didn’t salivate over sharp knives,
Or envy the boy who tossed himself off the Brooklyn bridge.
I just cleaned my bathroom,
did the laundry,
called my brother.
Told him, “it was a good day.”
― Kait Rokowski