happychappy :)

woke up this morning looking like i slept with a hanger in my mouth xD i feel goood, really good. my teaching prac was the shiz and i am now more than ever, convinced that this is what i want to do. my life is currently drama free, it's like everything had to hit its climax to gravitate back to normality. nevermind that it took a while, because things are better than ever now. i needed to withdraw myself from certain things, to retreat and re-collect myself, my thoughts..which turns out was exactly what the doc ordered. besides that i have let go of a lot,..its funny looking back on those days knowing now exactly what i was headed towards and what was headed towards me. but it's all good because now, even if i end up finding myself in those situations again that i seem to be prone to, they wont be anything i can't handle, if all thats happened has taught me anything, it's that.

Hamza Alkhateeb (13yrs of age)

Your name escaped me earlier, but your face has been haunting me for the past two days. I feel a kinship towards you because of our common humanity. I hurt for the cruel injustice committed against you, but also against your family. I imagine that the absence of your brilliant radiant light is felt deeply in their lives and that the void they now feel as a result will never ever be filled. I empathize with them so much, although I can never know or fathom what it was like to lose you, their child, in the horrific way that they did.. Finding out about your story, my tears are ones of rage because the wounds, the physical pain inflicted upon your body should have never happened to you, you didn't deserve it to happen to you, your family didn't deserve to know what happened to you.. to see it like they did.. I hope that like me though they find comfort in knowing that your soul is safe now and that your body can no longer feel any pain. I hope you are put up amongst those in the highest levels of jannah and that your family will join you there inshAllah.

I wish strength and resilience for your family to continue living and fighting in your memory..and please know that there are so many more fighting and that you are being thought of and won't ever be forgotton. Inallilahi wa ina illayhi rajioon.