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This is Pakistan 🇵🇰 • You might have hear This is Pakistan 🇵🇰 • You might have heard and seen glimpses of my country, Pakistan, in the news or within articles on developing economies, also often within shows and movies showing hackers, or in spy shows like Homeland. You might have also seen images of various parts of the country and/or her culture and landscape. That’s one side of the picture though. And within this video you will see the other side. • Since I have been living in the USA, I have been blessed with a number of friends from around the globe and they often ask me what Pakistan is like. They ask me whether its true that it has security problems for the common man and is underdeveloped and poor; that its mostly agricultural land with little to no infrastructure; that militancy is rampant. • While my country has its own set of diverse problems, just like any other country on the planet, it also has another beautiful side with gushing waterfalls and flowing rivers, luxurious infrastructure within metropolitan cities, river walks, and a whole lot of nature; it is scenic with an incredibly hospitable population, boasting a cuisine filled with array of mouthwatering dishes harboring a kaleidoscope of flavors. • This is Pakistan 🇵🇰 • These pictures are not mine. Nor are the videos. I want to tag all of the people I can who own this content, most of which I took from the incredibly delightful insta profile of: @travelbeautifulpakistan • Content pictures/videos belong to: @precarious_panda @usman_zubair @ali_awaiss @usman_zfr @itsfaique @tarik.khattak @salman_b37 @fahadhanifff @pirusaein @muneebnaeemm @ghayyurj @khwajasaeed • *other photos are from google. • #pakistan #touchitchallenge #tourism #nature #naturephotography #pakistani #fulbright #fulbrighter #usefp #inspiration #lifestyle #lifestyleblogger
D•U•S•K • • • The pale stars were sli D•U•S•K • • • The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in. • • Olivia Howard Dunbar, The Shell of Sense • #evenings #dusktilldawn #dusk #sunset #sunsetphotography #meditation
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We gro We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin #instadaily #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #workmotivation #motivation #positivevibes #postivethinking #tuesdays
*View insta profile grid for the full photo* • • My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. • Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems • • I have 590 followers right now which is amazing considering that I don’t really target a specific group of people but i am grateful nonetheless. Thank you. I wanted to make a post where I acknowledge your presence and elaborate a bit on what my account is about by telling you a little bit about me. I am a “multipotentialite” and I believe I have more than one true calling. I am a working woman, a bureaucrat, and currently on a break, venturing back into academia. I am pursuing a doctorate in Economics in the US and I plan to change the world (too ambitious I am aware) I love all things geeky and nerdy. I think I am also very creative and love to express myself and therefore I am interested in art and makeup and clothes and jewelry and interior decor and all things related. I find inspiration in all sorts of different stuff. I love watching TV and I love music. I find peace at home and around the people I love. I am deeply spiritual as well and often truly resonate with logical, intuitive forms meditation. My account on Instagram is meant to be an inspiration for common folk. I will be sharing content that motivates me, with brief glimpses into my life and the things I do, whether its redecorating my capsule workspace the millionth time or a “studywithme” at dawn or playing with neon eyeshadows. I am documenting my life on this platform, in bits and pieces so I can’t promise that you will find the best skincare or the best makeup look or high end fashion nor the best studying tips here. But I promise you I will share how I make it work and I promise it wont be dull. • • #inspiration #motivation #lifequotes #lifestyleblogger #fulbright #fulbrightscholarship #fulbrightscholar #usefp #phd #phdlife #phdstudent #phdjourney #animallover #creativity #nofilter #aboutme #gettoknowme #instagram #lifewithme
You must have a level of discontent to feel the ur You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. • Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability • I have 590 followers right now which is amazing considering that I don’t really target a specific group of people but i am grateful nonetheless. Thank you. I wanted to make a post where I acknowledge your presence and elaborate a bit on what my account is about by telling you a little bit about me. I am a “multipotentialite” and I believe I have more than one true calling. I am a working woman, a bureaucrat, and currently on a break, venturing back into academia. I am pursuing a doctorate in Economics in the US and I plan to change the world (too ambitious I am aware) I love all things geeky and nerdy. I think I am also very creative and love to express myself and therefore I am interested in art and makeup and clothes and jewelry and interior decor and all things related. I find inspiration in all sorts of different stuff. I love watching TV and I love music. I find peace at home and around the people I love. I am deeply spiritual as well and often truly resonate with logical, intuitive forms meditation. My account on Instagram is meant to be an inspiration for common folk. I will be sharing content that motivates me, with brief glimpses into my life and the things I do, whether its redecorating my capsule workspace the millionth time or a “studywithme” at dawn or playing with neon eyeshadows. I am documenting my life on this platform, in bits and pieces so I can’t promise that you will find the best skincare or the best makeup look or high end fashion nor the best studying tips here. But I promise you I will share how I make it work and I promise it wont be dull.
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. • Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale • I have 590 followers right now which is amazing considering that I don’t really target a specific group of people but i am grateful nonetheless. Thank you. I wanted to make a post where I acknowledge your presence and elaborate a bit on what my account is about by telling you a little bit about me. I am a “multipotentialite” and I believe I have more than one true calling. I am a working woman, a bureaucrat, and currently on a break, venturing back into academia. I am pursuing a doctorate in Economics in the US and I plan to change the world (too ambitious I am aware) I love all things geeky and nerdy. I think I am also very creative and love to express myself and therefore I am interested in art and makeup and clothes and jewelry and interior decor and all things related. I find inspiration in all sorts of different stuff. I love watching TV and I love music. I find peace at home and around the people I love. I am deeply spiritual as well and often truly resonate with logical, intuitive forms meditation. My account on Instagram is meant to be an inspiration for common folk. I will be sharing content that motivates me, with brief glimpses into my life and the things I do, whether its redecorating my capsule workspace the millionth time or a “studywithme” at dawn or playing with neon eyeshadows. I am documenting my life on this platform, in bits and pieces so I can’t promise that you will find the best skincare or the best makeup look or high end fashion nor the best studying tips here. But I promise you I will share how I make it work and I promise it wont be dull.
This life therefore is not righteousness, but grow This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. • Martin Luther • I have 590 followers right now which is amazing considering that I don’t really target a specific group of people but i am grateful nonetheless. Thank you. I wanted to make a post where I acknowledge your presence and elaborate a bit on what my account is about by telling you a little bit about me. I am a “multipotentialite” and I believe I have more than one true calling. I am a working woman, a bureaucrat, and currently on a break, venturing back into academia. I am pursuing a doctorate in Economics in the US and I plan to change the world (too ambitious I am aware) I love all things geeky and nerdy. I think I am also very creative and love to express myself and therefore I am interested in art and makeup and clothes and jewelry and interior decor and all things related. I find inspiration in all sorts of different stuff. I love watching TV and I love music. I find peace at home and around the people I love. I am deeply spiritual as well and often truly resonate with logical, intuitive forms meditation. My account on Instagram is meant to be an inspiration for common folk. I will be sharing content that motivates me, with brief glimpses into my life and the things I do, whether its redecorating my capsule workspace the millionth time or a “studywithme” at dawn or playing with neon eyeshadows. I am documenting my life on this platform, in bits and pieces so I can’t promise that you will find the best skincare or the best makeup look or high end fashion nor the best studying tips here. But I promise you I will share how I make it work and I promise it wont be dull.
What makes night within us may leave stars. • Vi What makes night within us may leave stars. • Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three • I have 590 followers right now which is amazing considering that I don’t really target a specific group of people but i am grateful nonetheless. Thank you. I wanted to make a post where I acknowledge your presence and elaborate a bit on what my account is about by telling you a little bit about me. I am a “multipotentialite” and I believe I have more than one true calling. I am a working woman, a bureaucrat, and currently on a break, venturing back into academia. I am pursuing a doctorate in Economics in the US and I plan to change the world (too ambitious I am aware) I love all things geeky and nerdy. I think I am also very creative and love to express myself and therefore I am interested in art and makeup and clothes and jewelry and interior decor and all things related. I find inspiration in all sorts of different stuff. I love watching TV and I love music. I find peace at home and around the people I love. I am deeply spiritual as well and often truly resonate with logical, intuitive forms meditation. My account on Instagram is meant to be an inspiration for common folk. I will be sharing content that motivates me, with brief glimpses into my life and the things I do, whether its redecorating my capsule workspace the millionth time or a “studywithme” at dawn or playing with neon eyeshadows. I am documenting my life on this platform, in bits and pieces so I can’t promise that you will find the best skincare or the best makeup look or high end fashion nor the best studying tips here. But I promise you I will share how I make it work and I promise it wont be dull.
I beg you, to have patience with everything unreso I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. • Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet • I have 590 followers right now which is amazing considering that I don’t really target a specific group of people but i am grateful nonetheless. Thank you. I wanted to make a post where I acknowledge your presence and elaborate a bit on what my account is about by telling you a little bit about me. I am a “multipotentialite” and I believe I have more than one true calling. I am a working woman, a bureaucrat, and currently on a break, venturing back into academia. I am pursuing a doctorate in Economics in the US and I plan to change the world (too ambitious I am aware) I love all things geeky and nerdy. I think I am also very creative and love to express myself and therefore I am interested in art and makeup and clothes and jewelry and interior decor and all things related. I find inspiration in all sorts of different stuff. I love watching TV and I love music. I find peace at home and around the people I love. I am deeply spiritual as well and often truly resonate with logical, intuitive forms meditation. My account on Instagram is meant to be an inspiration for common folk. I will be sharing content that motivates me, with brief glimpses into my life and the things I do, whether its redecorating my capsule workspace the millionth time or a “studywithme” at dawn or playing with neon eyeshadows. I am documenting my life on this platform, in bits and pieces so I can’t promise that you will find the best skincare or the best makeup look or high end fashion nor the best studying tips here. But I promise you I will share how I make it work and I promise it wont be dull.
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. • Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale • I have 590 followers right now which is amazing considering that I don’t really target a specific group of people but i am grateful nonetheless. Thank you. I wanted to make a post where I acknowledge your presence and elaborate a bit on what my account is about by telling you a little bit about me. I am a “multipotentialite” and I believe I have more than one true calling. I am a working woman, a bureaucrat, and currently on a break, venturing back into academia. I am pursuing a doctorate in Economics in the US and I plan to change the world (too ambitious I am aware) I love all things geeky and nerdy. I think I am also very creative and love to express myself and therefore I am interested in art and makeup and clothes and jewelry and interior decor and all things related. I find inspiration in all sorts of different stuff. I love watching TV and I love music. I find peace at home and around the people I love. I am deeply spiritual as well and often truly resonate with logical, intuitive forms meditation. My account on Instagram is meant to be an inspiration for common folk. I will be sharing content that motivates me, with brief glimpses into my life and the things I do, whether its redecorating my capsule workspace the millionth time or a “studywithme” at dawn or playing with neon eyeshadows. I am documenting my life on this platform, in bits and pieces so I can’t promise that you will find the best skincare or the best makeup look or high end fashion nor the best studying tips here. But I promise you I will share how I make it work and I promise it wont be dull.

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