🌷 My Journey 🌷 (Soumia Benrekia)

      Have you ever heard of the five languages of love? Yes, there are many ways to express love and each one of us tends to have their TOP THREE love languages that make them feel valued and cherished. Maybe you have noticed that some of your friends love to be praised, while others like to be gently touched or hugged, or maybe your partner buys you a lot of gifts but almost never expresses their love to you verbally. Well, when you read this article you will be able to know your love language and that of the ones you love which can improve your relationships and help you communicate better. Words Of Affirmation: 🎤❤ do you know someone who loves to express their love verbally, someone who is always praising the ones they love and telling them how much they appreciate them. If you want to win the heart of this person, just tell them how much you love them and always encourage them with "words". Quality Time: ⏰⏰ "I want to spend some time with you" "I can...

Hello 🌷 We often read randomly, we simply choose a book and start reading it,  some of us choose it according to its title, others choose the book with the nicest cover and some read synopses and care more about the plot. But have you ever thought about making a "READING PLAN" 📚📚 1/What Is A Reading Plan?  It is a plan that helps you reach a specific goal by reading the right material: books, articles...ect 2/ My Reading Purpose: The first thing in making a reading plan is asking yourself: Why do I read? Do I read to learn/perfect a language? Do I read to have better reading skills? Do I read to "develop myself"? Do I read for work/studies? Once you know your purpose, it will be easier for you to choose the right material that you need. (PS: you can have more than one purpose, for example: I read to have more knowledge in my field of study & to develop myself in different areas of life)  3/ Choosing Your Material. This is an important step, because if you cho...

🌼 My Ikigai 🌼 April 29, 2020. As we are still quarantined and  don't really know what to do and a little confused. If you are here reading this, it's because you want to feel better, you want to make a little change but don't know how to start. I don't pretend to have the answers to all your questions, but this article's title is an indication to what I am going to share with you. 🌼What is the "IKIGAI" ?🌼 Ikigai is a japanese philosophical concept, it is the definition of "true happiness". Ikigai is about the little, daily habits that everyone of us has, and how these little habits can bring us so much joy and satisfaction. Each one of us has their own "Ikigai": Dancing to your favorite song, choosing a fruit over a cookie, reading a good book, watching a good movie, talking to a friend, cuddling...ect. We usually attribute happiness to certain things such as; a big event like "marriage" or "graduation",...

The Mask Of The Red Death is a short story written by Edagar Allan Poe in 1842. It tackles various themes such as: Youth, Fate and Death. The plot is told from a third person point of view, it tells the story of a young rich prince whose kingdom was stricken by a fatal disease, the prince tried to escape it with his friends but neither his fortune nor youth could save him from the inevitability of death. This essay is an attempt to tackle: Death in TMOTRD, Symbolism & Allegory in the plot and Characteristics Of Modernism in the literary work. A simple contextualization of the short story brings us back to the 19's century where the Black Plague took many souls and spread fear and horror in Europe. Edgar Allan Poe represents this fatal disease in the story as a man in black wearing a red mask and he mercilessly kills people by making them bleed from their mouths. The protagonist is a young, rich and strong prince who thinks he can escape death. He goes with a thousand f...

MY PERFECT DAY ? Having a PERFECT DAY is not hard. It is very easy. When you wake up in the morning you get to decide what kind of day you want to have: Good or Bad. The MORNING is your key, there are few things that you can do to have better days. THE MORNING 🌻 Having a relaxing and positive morning is really important if you want to have a good and productive day. Here are the things that you should add to your morning routine: FEED YOUR SOUL 🙏 it can be through: meditation, relaxing music, prayer & Quran...ect.  A HEALTHY BREAKFAST: The first thing that you should enter your body is "water" it hydrates every cell in your body and makes your skin look shiny and healthy. Plus, fruits 🍉🍇🍎. AFFIRMATIONS: I have already mentioned affirmations in a previous article but I would love to mention them again to emphasize on how important they are. You can take a deep breath and close your eyes and choose an affirmation that suits you best: " I intend to h...

We Are All Concerned, We Have One Planet 🌎 I have always wanted to tackle this subject, but I wasn't ready for it. Why? Well, simply because I do not consider myself an environmentalist nor an activist, I eat meat, I sometimes forget my shopping bag and use plastic bags, I use straws and I buy plastic water bottles. However, I believe everyone has the right to call for change even if they haven't the perfect profile for it. I am writing this article because I love my planet and I am very fond of nature. Nature is magical but we often forget how fascinating it is, we forget that trees clean air and enhance a community's respiratory health, and that oceans produce over half of the world's oxygen.                            Although I haven't taken huge actions concerning this matter, I have changed some of my daily habits to express my deepest love to nature and to the one and only planet we have. Some of ...

Who am I ? If you take a look at my last article, you'd realize that I haven't written anything here for two years. As the title of this article indicates: "I am reintroducing myself", why? Well, because I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE CHANGE ♡ the person I am today is not the person I used to be two years ago and is not the person I was yesterday... We grow, we make mistakes, we get fooled, we learn, we love.... We change.                                             In the past two years I can say that a tremendous amount of events happened and that I can trully call it a "Transitional Period". I became a post-graduate student (Of English Literature), I made new friends, I lost a friend, I visited an island for the first time in my life, I quit my University Cultural Club, I joined a "Baking Class", I was introduced to the field of "Self-development" in which I am now very inte...