when I was younger (like, 2 maybe, very young) my parents took me and my even younger sister out to dinner. now, being the small, undeveloped little sack of flesh I was, I didn’t have a grain of sense. when stupid 2yr old me couldn’t find her cutlery (probably cause they hadn’t set any for a toddler), I said, very loudly, “WHERE’S MY FORK AND KNIFE???”
however, due to my uncoordinated child mouth apparatus mixed with my australian accent (which slurs almost any word that exists your sound hole), it sounded alot like I had just screamed “WHEERS MY FUCKIN KNIFE???”
needless to say all eyes were on our table and my mum and dad had probably never felt more embarrassed in their lives.
How to get into college in 1983: get good grades
How to get into college in 2013: get good grades, speak six languages, be a rocket scientist, and end world hunger
How to pay for college 1983: Work part time and summers. Maybe take out minimal loans.
How to pay for college 2013: Which of your organs is the most valuable?
What to do with your degree in 1983: work in your field
What to do with your degree in 2013: cryThis
How college students were viewed in 1983: hardworking and passionate
How college students are viewed in 2015: lazy and unambitious
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College student mental health in 1983: Happy and bright and full of hope.
College student mental health in 2016: If I kill myself I don’t have to pay back my student loans.
Things you can pray for:
- Our Ummah, espcially those in bleeding and opressed countries including Syria, Gaza, Burma, Yemen, Nigeria. Do not forget our Ummah in underdeveloped countries like Pakistan, Mali, Somalia, Afghanistan, Haiti, Togo, Zambia, etc.
- Pray for the sick, and the poor. Pray for the hungry, and the thirsty.
- Orphans, those who feel lonely in this world. Pray for people with depression, suicidal thoughts, mental disorders.
- For those who have less, and for those who have more (that they both may pass their circumstances with sweetness of Islam)
- Your family
- Guidance, mercy, health
- To stay focused on Islam, and not to stray off.
- A forgiving, humble, and non-judgmental heart.
- Piousness
- Knowledge, and remembrance.
- Those who have passed away, for Allah’s mercy upon them and the expiation of their sins.
- Khushoo in salah
- Sabr in times where we completely lose it.
- To die only when we are worthy of entering Jannah
- To be able to perform Hajj
- Success in this world and the next
- Forgiveness
- Guidance of the youth
- To be a better Muslim
- Protection from the hell fire and from the torment of the graves
- To have a chance to make things right for those who we have wronged
- Your personal ambitions that are good for you
- To be able to hear the stories of the prophets by the prophets themselves, to be able to discuss with the sahabas about the character of our prophet, to be able to eat and drink from the fruits and milk provided in Jannah.
- To be with our loved ones in Jannah
- To be able to have tawakkul when things don’t go our way
- Education to be provided to those who do not have the resources
- All the pregnant women to have an easy delivery and a healthy baby
- Our worship to be accepted
- protection from shirk
- Justice to those who have been oppressed, given pain, or accused wrongly
- Our marriages to last in Jannah and for our marriages to be righteous
- Obedient children who will be guided onto the beautiful path of Islam
- Provisions for those who don’t have a ceiling, who don’t have a bed, who don’t have bread or water.
- To guide those who are doubting Islam, and for our own doubts to be cleared
- To be in the shade of Allah on the day of judgment and for our book of deeds to be in our right hand
- Protection from laziness and cowardice
- To be always be able to do what is right
- To be able to control our anger
- To do everything with sincerity and love
- A heart free from hate, or envy.
- To get closer to Allah
- To be able make use of our short time wisely
- For everyone in the world, every person in every corner, to at least have some clean water
- Pray for anything and everything (which is good for us). Pray for everyone.
Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter Lords of the underworld #4.5
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