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Every sketchbook should desire to be finished. For the human mind’s complexity to be splattered onto them. The beauty of art is that it doesn’t require a filter, but intuition. The ability to let go and let the soul paint what words cannot. I was different. Why do sketchbooks wish all their pages were filled? For closure, if there ever was such a thing? Closure of what? Closure of a chapter? Closure of images that once lived, free and wild? I sometimes wonder if the birth of an image on my surface meant the death of it, too. Once it’s out of the artist’s mind, the art wasn’t alive anymore. My pages were overfilled. Masood had stuffed me with different pages because he couldn’t fit his drawings on mine. He came home every day to relax, painting out his worries and fears, enjoyment and love onto me. It felt like whiplash. On one page, his soul painted iridescence. On the other, he drew entrapment. I enjoyed being his passion. His haven. I enjoyed his sons’ awe at how he decorated me, lea...
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My Favorite Mythological Animal

"How can you rise if you have not burned?" - Hiba Fatima Ahmed 

My favorite mythological animal is the phoenix.

Fire destroys, but it also creates. It brings us warmth, but it also damns us. It is dangerous and safe, its duality confusing and enchanting, a force to be reckoned with.

The phoenix represents resilience and perseverance, the purpose of life. 
The strive to live, the strive to continue, the strive to be better, and the strive against evil. 

It also represents the monotony of life, the repetition of life. We experience challenges, again and again and again, and we get through them, and then the cycle repeats. We reach a low point in our lives, we rise, and the process repeats. We die again and again and again. And we rise every time.

It embodies the message of pain being required in life. That we cannot rise if we have not fallen first, if we have not already been low once. There is beauty in having fallen and still rising with grace and elegance, in rising from the ashes with mesmerizing beauty.

Hence, it is a symbol of hope, too. It symbolizes the fact that no matter what, we will somehow make it out of a low point in our lives. We will make it out of here. It represents the message of resilience and hope.
The phoenix is my favorite mythological animal because it represents key concepts that humanity must always remember: perseverance, resilience, and hope. Key concepts that many of us, unfortunately, tend to forget.

So, what's your favorite mythological animal? Do you have any philosophical reason for liking it? Comment down below!




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