AYESHA CHAUDHRY

i'm thinking of ending things

Recently I watched a scary movie. It was a different type of scary. There wasn’t really any gore, no jump scares, nobody died. This movie...

The sudden obliteration of expectation

You know the feeling. The last gasp you take before your life changes forever. Human nature is to resign ourselves to expectations we...

am i positive or toxic?

keep your head up! nobody can upset you without your permission. spread love not negativity! Where does the positivity start, and where...

Breaking News: stop comparing yourself to 'kids in africa'

They day after I cried myself to sleep I saw the gut wrenching headline. "Multiple people dead after a shooting at an El Paso shopping...

how starving myself made me fat

"I'm literally just not going to eat this weekend I don't wanna look bloated at homecoming." Whenever I see those posts reminiscing about...

A pleasure to have in class

The older I get the further I run from being a teacher's pet. I actually don't think there's anything wrong with teacher's pets. Being...

community college admissions

Everyday that the clock ticks down to the end of the school year another gray hair is plucked from my scalp. Watching my senior friends...

Am I going to hell?

Most of my friends are religious-including my best friend of three years! So I often find myself pondering how their relationship with...

watching someone else succeed

My whole life I have been surrounded by success. My family, my friends, the pang of jealousy in my heart is one that I know well. It has...

Rejection; it sucks

My life has always been go, go, go. Because whenever I stopped I was cradled in the grasp of debilitating depression. This is why...