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The beautiful weather this time of year calls for family picnics, family gatherings, and the best of them all: weddings. Time to meet cousins and relatives, make small talk and pretend to recognize faces we don’t know [Indians and Arabs, you know what I’m talking about]! “Look at you all grown up! I…
Every year, we make promises to ourselves – exercise more, stay fit, become a better person, learn a new skill. This year, let’s change things up. Instead of focusing on our complicated personal lives, let’s make simple work resolutions that will make a measurable difference to your care…
I left just as quickly as I came. It seems like just yesterday, I heard your voice calling to me as you joyfully counted down; “10, 9, 8…”, welcoming me with joyful music and fireworks. I felt the hope in your smile and the butterflies in your stomach as you whispered to yourself “This is …
An inescapable part of life. Long nights of sleeplessness, Intense periods of anxiety, Unbearable bouts of suffering. We’ve all been through pain. For those of us that have been through a breakup, we know the maturity and clarity of vision that comes once we’re over the initial stages of…
I have been in England for a year and a half, and although I have powerful pangs of nostalgia where I miss the little things about Dubai (yes, Dubai does have a few little things!), I do really like London. While taking the tube home one evening, I was making my way to Victoria Station …
Great applause and a standing ovation followed Emma Watson’s grand speech at the UN headquarters. I sat there beaming at the screen. Way to go, Hermione! It must really take quite some courage to get up there, and speak on a subject like gender stereotypes. The topic has turned into quite a sensitiv…
B-Change brings you this piece by one of our writers, Syed Ammar, about the Peshawar attacks. “It was a bright and a very beautiful morning in the city of Peshawar. The usual morning rush hour had started. Chilren, carrying bags bigger than themselves were coming out of their houses. All the k…
Today, like everyday since you were born, someone exclaimed “She looks like a boy! Where are her earrings?” while looking at you. But unlike every other time, you put your hands to your ears. For the first time, you understood. You felt an absence and you felt conscious. This will be the first…
Have you ever realized how often we cry about how much our life sucks? “If only I had this, if only I could do that”, the list is endless. As if whining about our lives wasn’t enough, we have to hear others whining about their lives too. Seriously? I have way too much whining to …
I got into the car hurried, absent-minded, and heavyhearted. That morning I woke up to the question ‘What would Mom have thought of me if she saw me today? Would she be proud? Would she be shocked?’ Though it had been five years since I lost her, I found myself missing her even more than…
Every. Single. Day. Over an hour every day of boring, stressful and unnerving braking-and-barely-accelerating driving. Traffic is the place where energetic people come to die and ambitious people stay to kill. If you could only rush through rush hour! We feel your pain. No, really. Every single day,…
It was the first day of class and the room was packed with PhD hopefuls trying to mask how terrified they all really were. And like any important first day, Murphy’s law set in motion and everything began to go wrong for me. I was late, couldn’t find the right classroom, and somehow managed to …
Allow me to introduce myself to you: I am a dream – an unconventional career. I am the choice you decided to forego. I am the naive ambition you wanted to pursue, but never did. Parents avoid discussing me and friends look down on me. Have you ever thought about how different the world would b…
Je ne regrette rein. I regret nothing. That is the mantra most of us follow when we look back at our past. We swear that if we could go back in time, we would still do everything the exact same way. The little things like waking up in the middle of the day instead of …
It seems fairly normal, right – talking to the man who’s driving you to your destination? Except my experience this morning changed that for me. I was travelling a short distance in Dubai to pick my car up where I left it before a long night of cocktails, shooters, painful heels and spic…
Leaving the country you were born and raised in is terrifying. If you’re anything like me and are not inherently the bravest person, it’s easy to question everything you’re doing, even if you know it’s the right thing to do. Don’t let yourself fall victim to these thoughts and be held back. If you’r…
Dubai is home to families from diverse cultures –and habits. This is a city, which is globally recognized for its major expatriate population. After a tiring week of nagging bosses or meeting deadlines, we all lust for the weekend. And Friday? Friday is universally acknowledged to be a Family Day [a…
He pats his son hard on the back with a smile. With the report card in one hand, he hugged his son with the other. He took another look at the glaring ‘D’, turned and said “Don’t let it bring you down, little man. This D will teach you more than any A ever will!” …
We are strange. People are strange. Strangers are strange. What makes us walk a different direction, grimace or shuffle in discomfort from a stranger’s presence? Is it their personality? Their secrets? Their story? Nah. It has little to do with reality and more to do with our imagination. We simply …
Every time you read about an appeal to change someone’s life, it’s inextricably linked to some form of donation: cash, time or kind. What if we told you that it’s possible to improve someone’s life with unbelievable ease [online], while keeping your money at the end of the day? Among a multitude of …
Should I call back? No. I should probably wait a little longer. I mean I was sure I’d get the call back soon, but it’s been a week. It’s only a week, not that long. Seven days I’ve waited and I can wait a little bit longer. I don’t want to seem clingy or needy …
As I lazed on my bed on a typical weekday night, I noticed my roommate staring at her phone intently. Unblinking, unmoving – like a hawk watching its prey. Naturally, I was curious, so I asked. She tossed her phone to me with a grimace, and I saw the picture of a man smiling suggestively. …
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