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Your Voice Is All We Need Today For A Better Tomorrow-2

No problems if the narrative isn’t sensational enough

Dr. Fatima Imam
3 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Who said churning out life stories would be easy? Who was misinformed that sharing doesn’t require effort? Who can honestly confess that personal narratives are emotionally draining?

Agreed all of this is hard, but we still have to dig into our souls to add our take, perspective, and, most importantly, interpretation.

If we don’t, someone else will spin our voices to suit their projections, predictions, or perceived perceptions about us. How irresponsible it would be on our part to let others speak for us.

However, we should take care to affirm the validity of our stories; we need to verify, quantify, and certify our sources to stand our ground in the cesspool of information. No need to rush, roil, or rectify someone’s expectations of us.

We need to analyze how our words are going to impact others mindfully. We need to be one hundred percent sure that we’re not adding to the ideologies of hate, fear, and doom, as those are already gnawing away the sensible, logical, and reasonable peoples’ minds.

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Dr. Fatima Imam

Poet, writer, artist, historian, educator, advocate of underrepresented voices, and cat lover.