Are there any Pakistani men out there who not only are aware of ableism, racism, anti-blackness, and sexism (especially in the Pakistani/Muslim community) but also actively speak out against it? Who do their own housework? Who give back to the community? Who haven’t spend most of their lives becoming the generic Doctor/Engineer to gain their local aunty/uncles praise? Who don’t make fun of dark skinned girls? Who don’t chase after white girls in hopes to convert and marry them? Someone who doesn’t fetishize light skin? Who doesn’t have double standards for his desi sisters when he’s done worse? Then decide to grow a beard and demand a “pious wife”? I’m asking for a friend..

There isn't a lot of them. Over the years I have tried very hard to make people understand that they can't live their lives being obsessed with what other people should and should not do. Because really, everyone has the right to live their life on their own terms. And it's not just that either. It seems like everyone in our society is wearing a mask, everyone is fake and everyone is out there to bring you down. They all pretend to be liberal and always use the phrase "oh I never judge a person" but most of them are immature and do not have the thought process or the observational ability to even decide what's good or bad. I'm not saying that you should actually never judge a person, you absolutely should. Just don't judge them too soon, not before you actually get to know them. Even if you're religious, just because a person sins differently than you do doesn't mean he's not a good person. I think one of the things that decides whether you're good or bad is how you treat the people around you, specially the strangers and people who are not as fortunate as we are, people who have nothing in the world. I have lived most of my life just trying to make sure no one around me gets hurt because of something I did or said. And even though you can't always help that — I have hurt people too — but I always tried.

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An Introvert's Guide To Surviving A Breakup

Originally posted by come-and-save-me-from-myself

Introverts are generally known for possessing a higher emotional intelligence and being extremely perceptive. They’re affected more than the average human being. A slight change in attitude, behavior, smell or environment deeply affects them. They don’t miss a thing. They create a small circle and are fiercely loyal to the ones they have chosen, this is why a breakup is particularly hard for this type of human being. They’re commitment oriented and literally feel as if a person ran away with a piece of their soul. A breakup can lead to a deep depression or life turning transformation.

Keep reading on how to handle such a drastic change.

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You should tell people how important they are to you. Not because they could leave at any moment, but because they’re here now, and it’s worth saying something.

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The extraordinary ‘Baroness of Jazz’ befriended, hosted and aided many of New York City’s greatest jazz musicians.

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Life doesn’t make trash - A genome is not a blueprint for building a human being, so is there any way to judge whether DNA is junk or not? - Humans are astounding creatures, our unique and highly complex traits encoded by our genome – a vast sequence of DNA ‘letters’ (called nucleotides) directing the building and maintenance of the body and brain. Yet science has served up the confounding paradox that the bulk of our genome appears to be dead wood, biologically inert junk. Could all this mysterious ‘dark matter’ in our genome really be non-functional? Our genome has more than 20,000 genes, relatively stable stretches of DNA transmitted largely unchanged between generations. These genes contain recipes for molecules, especially proteins, that are the main building blocks and molecular machines of our bodies. Yet DNA that codes for such known structures accounts for just over 3 per cent of our genome. What about the other 97 per cent? With the publication of the first draft of the human genome in 2001, that shadow world came into focus. It emerged that roughly half our DNA consisted of ‘repeats’, long stretches of letters sometimes found in millions of copies at seemingly random places throughout the genome. Were all these repeats just junk? To answer this question, hundreds of scientists worldwide joined a massive science project called the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, or ENCODE. After working hard for almost a decade, in 2012 ENCODE came to a surprising conclusion: rather than being composed mostly of useless junk, 80 per cent of the human genome is in fact functional. (via Is our genome full of junk DNA? – Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher – Aeon)

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