Hello! Have you missed me? Are you still there?
I can only conclude from my patterned prolonged absences that I am at a restless time in my life. In short, I have piles and piles of work and all I want to do is write about the dusty beauty shops downtown that look like they’re from some tumble-weeded Western film featuring ass-kicking women in gangs with names like “lipsticks & bullets.” (Actually, I think that might even be the name of one of the shops.) I want to write about crisp cellular incisions and pale shades of green and silver, and endless yearning, and insignificance, and being remembered for nothing, nothing at all. I was always, as a child, painfully affected by beauty, and it is a sickness that has alarmingly begun, at least for now, to take my voice.
I am not gone. That is the point of this post. I will still be writing here, but long gaps may be expected.
I am very sorry. I miss you. It is a strange thing to miss anyone in a situation that can easily be amended by frequent visiting (or in this case, writing), but I am afraid it seems to be an irremovable part of my nature to go on missing.
I will see you soon.
Love,
Nahida
Nahida
Good luck with the work. Looking forward to when you’re back properly :-D
Keji!! *hugs*
Good luck Nahida, been reading your blog for years, has been a serious inspiration to set up my own place to write about my relationships with Islam and gender issues. So much so I only just realised I subconsciously copied both your theme and sort of your tagline. May need to change that!
Hopefully it’s equally in your nature to come back after you go missing, the internet would be a lot less interesting without this place.
Thanks so much! I’m going to post sporadically but yes, not nearly to the extent I had before… until I return!
And LOL. You don’t need to change anything–it nowhere near rips off of me. How funny! It’s a good theme. ;) And my tagline format is common, so yeah, no problems there.