Hi hi hi.
How have you been? I hope this love letter meets you in good health✨
Oh, happy new year! The last time you received a love letter was last year December.
(If you're new here, welcomeeee. You can catch up on my older posts here)
I definitely did not plan to stay away for as long as I have, I apologize. Life happened and I just couldn't find time to take a breather for the newsletter.
Shout-out to Munirah, Mubarak & Aminah from Twitter who kept asking about the newsletter 💖
Today's love letter isn't anything serious. Just some important life updates and lessons I've learnt in the past 5 months.
1. I turned 21.
This is probably the most significant event that has occurred in the past few months. More than ever, it's dawning on me that I'm practically a grown-up. Where did time go?🥺.
I'm now looking at things like getting married as things in the nearest future ( If you know a Muslim rich tech bro, you know how to reach me. Just kidding, if you know anyone you think will be a good fit for me, let me know. Seriously, this time)
I also lost a coursemate last week and I'm reminded more than ever of my own mortality.
Many of us look at birthdays as a celebration of life, on the flip side, it is also a grim reminder that we're getting closer and closer to death.
My prayer every day is that Allah takes my soul only when He's pleased with me even if I feel I'm not ready (Is anyone ever ready to die?)
2. I lost 206- day Duolingo streak.
I won't lie, I'm devastated. I couldn't even do the streak repair 😭
I was hoping to do a full 365-day streak & because of bad network in my hostel, that won't be happening.
As it is, I haven't opened the app in days. I'll probably write a letter about all the lessons I've learnt from this experience but till then, I'm grieving.
3. Upleveled to my penultimate year in uni!
This is the question 😂
Anyway, I'm full of joy that this part of my life is almost over. I should be graduating next year, in sha Allah, eeeeeek 💃😭
If you listened to the podcast with one of my friends where I talked about my struggles with getting into university, you'd understand why. (PS - you can listen here, it's episode 5)
This year has been the worst. It was hella stressful having school with Covid restrictions, online classes and everything else.
Exams were hell. Especially with Ramadan so shout-out to every single person who made dua for me, sent me love, money and food. I'm so so grateful for such wonderful friends.
AlhamduliLah the session has ended now and all I plan to do is enjoy a stress-free life for the next 2 weeks before a new session starts. (My soul sister just sent me food to commemorate this and I couldn't love her more. Shout-out to you, Tee💖)
4. Ramadan was a totally new experience!
Ramadan, this year was amazing. Tough but amazing. SubhanaLlah. Going into the month with proper planning with other like-minded Muslims was a gamechanger.
The month also exposed me to myself and mannn, there's still a lot of work to be done. May Allah make it easy ✨
Other news;
• The LFJ Tribe is now on Clubhouse. If you're Muslim, you should definitely join us here.
I thought I was going to have a lot of things to say but I'm such a boring person, lol.
Anyway, it's nice to be back in your inbox.
Until next time,
Lots of love,
Nusaybah.
Welcome back. Almost walked up to you in school to ask why you weren’t posting, hehe.
Yayyy you're back 😁
The loosing of your Duolingo streak part ehn, I can totally relate 😪. I lost mine too and I've still not started again, I keep pushing it but don't be like me 😄