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Continue reading →: The Divided Heart: Loving Pakistan and Portugal Without Betrayal
How being home again taught me that love is not a finite resource, and belonging can be a beautiful, messy expansion. I dreamed of this moment for months. The flight booked. The suitcases packed, not with the anxiety of a permanent move, but with the simple anticipation of return. I…
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What’s the best way to build self-confidence? Read, observe, practice. There are no shortcuts or crash courses to attain that.
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How do you build loyal subscribers? Be yourself. Be authentic and make yourself relatable. No need for perfection. There’s beauty in brokenness and flaws. When we share stories from our lives that make people feel that somehow they have also lived those in some version of the other, they connect…
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Continue reading →: The Ticket Home: How Our TRCs Gave Me Permission to Flee the Winter
On rain-soaked laundry, a stubborn chill, and the courage to go back to gather strength for my new home. Six months. That’s how long it’s been since I last sat down to write. And in those months, life didn’t just happen, it unfolded, in all its messy, glorious, and gut-wrenching…
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Continue reading →: The Unburdening: What I No Longer Buy
How four suitcases and a temporary apartment taught me the difference between a want, a need, and a weight. There is a peculiar freedom that comes from having very little. It’s a truth I thought I understood, until I was forced to live it. Our great migration was conducted with…
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Continue reading →: They don’t have to
Tell us one thing you hope people say about you. When I turned 40 a decade ago, I learnt to free myself from a lot of unnecessary things that we tend to cling to. External validation is one. Now I can’t care less if anyone speaks good about me or…
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Continue reading →: Overwhelming
Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc. Who are we kidding here? Anything new is and can be quite a lot to take in. No matter how confident and capable you are, there’s always a little doubt, plenty of what ifs that…
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Continue reading →: The Quiet Teachers: On Trees, Fall, and Finding Home in the Roots
What the Ginkgos of Lisbon taught me about standing my ground, seasons, and the blessings I carried with me. Fall has always been my favourite time of the year. There’s a particular slant to the light, a golden-filtered softness that turns the world introspective. In Islamabad, it was a symphony…
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Continue reading →: Navigating the bureaucratic puzzle of our residency card appointment
December 5th was a date circled in red on our calendar for over a year. It was the day of our long-awaited AIMA (the agency that succeeded SEF) appointment to finalize our residency and get our Temporary Residency Cards (TRCs). This was the final administrative gate before we could truly…
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Continue reading →: Always!! I was born for this
Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? Dramatics, singing, debates, modelling and what not… If that wasn’t enough I became a professional in training and development. So it became my bread n butter to speak in front of a crowd. To connect with them, to share stories…
Hello, I’m Saba. Welcome to my world where honest words and raw emotions are sacred. This is where I invite you to witness our relocation journey as a family with two teens. From Pakistan to Portugal. One river at a time.
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