[Deel]

Originally Posted by rawrr

I like writers

i like you

Originally Posted by shsh

i am cooler than you foo'

[Zam]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

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Have you ever read the story about the man and the butterfly?

wow that's an incredible story subhanAllah

[IbnMardhiyah]

Originally Posted by ChotooMotoo

As a Muslim woman, I feel that my talents are fairly useless. Where exactly does musical aptitude get you these days anyway?

Design / write / create wicked [and halal] tracks to songs written by some awesome Muslim songwriter that you hook up with.

There's a real lack of Muslim music in English, and sorry to say but DWA and crew just don't cut it.

[ChotooMotoo]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

Design / write / create wicked [and halal] tracks to songs written by some awesome Muslim songwriter that you hook up with.

There's a real lack of Muslim music in English, and sorry to say but DWA and crew just don't cut it.

yeah.... but you see Western classical music doesn't quite translate like that. I just perform, I don't make my own.

I'll just focus on other things.

[IbnMardhiyah]

Originally Posted by ChotooMotoo

......... I don't make my own.

There's always a first time for everything.

Or so they say.

[ChotooMotoo]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

There's always a first time for everything.

Or so they say.

I just don't like pop music, call me crazy. I like religious pop-music even less. Muslims don't get western classical music, or most any other classical music for that matter. I've also never had a desire to write my own music. I'll just have to pass on that one. Thanks for the suggestion though

[MuslimZ]

I'm an english major... the answer is obvious...

[rawrr]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

Have you ever read the story about the man and the butterfly?

Check it out.

Hmm..

Find something you know you like doing anyways, and just go at it. To avoid disappointment, lower your expectations though and consider the possibilities instead - you're not going to become a Picasso or Tolkien overnight. You know it'll take a lot of tries and failures before you get good at it.

Success motivates me more than failure. It works differently for different people

If you're walking with a friend along the side of a road, and you fall down, what does a real friend do? Tell you that you're not good enough to keep walking with them? Do they laugh at you or scold you for falling down? No, they bend down and help you stand up, they brush the dirt off your clothes and you two continue to keep walking.

So who are you hanging around with? [aside from family]

I'm not going into this, all I can say is there's normally an awkward silence when people ask my parents what I'm doing with my life.

Yeah you did.

When you were a baby.

You were just a little runt. You didn't know how to walk. You weren't a toddler. Yet you kept trying and falling. You didn't give a damn, YOU JUST KEPT GOING. You kept hauling yourself up to your feet, you kept trying to walk with support with nearby furniture first, and then finally you took a few steps unsupported, you fell down on your face, you got BACK UP AGAIN and kept going and now .... you walk and talk like everyone else.

So you became something you weren't.

This is more instinct than anything else. It's not instinctive to want to be something your not. (Atleast I don't think it is)

Wayne Gretzky - one of the greatest hockey players ever - kept practicing and trying until he became what he wasn't, before. He has a quote I love:

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

There's so many others that weren't good at what they eventually became good at yet they kept going.

Babe Ruth.
Muhammad bin Qasim.
Donald Trump.
Margaret Atwood.
Muhammad Ali.
Thomas Edison.
Al Gore.
Tariq bin Ziyad.
Malcolm X.
A.G. Bell.
Terry Fox.

... and so many others.

You could be a good counselor. Maybe this is one of those things that you are naturally good at?

Originally Posted by ShotgunMessiah

YIGOFEO.


(Yes I've Got One For Every Occasion)

Spammer

Originally Posted by Nabisco007

"I'm the best! I'm the best! I'm the best! (yes you are the best! you're the best! you're the best!)"

I'm the Best

This is rather disturbing.

Originally Posted by MuslimZ

I'm an english major... the answer is obvious...

Cool, I like how your an english major from Wirginia...

[hijabihoodlum]

so much so that it hurts sometimes.

[ShotgunMessiah]

Originally Posted by rawrr

Spammer

It takes one to know one.

[zzze]

assalamu alaykum

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

Design / write / create wicked [and halal] tracks to songs written by some awesome Muslim songwriter that you hook up with.

There's a real lack of Muslim music in English, and sorry to say but DWA and crew just don't cut it.

o.m.g. did you just diss dawud warnsby?

he is the BEST, such simple, beautiful sincere lyrics.

dizzee rascal is cool too

bye


-- OP, do something new once a fornight/whenever suits you. You won't know what you like until you enjoy it. I suck at horseriding as I'm scared of horses but I love it. I have a natural flare (mA ) at drawing and such, but I hate it, HATE. So do something you enjoy

[Haramoobobi]

MashAllah there are some people who are good and everything they put their time into. Once you've mastered something it's easy to master another.

But don't be fooled.

Just because someone is talented and or skilled at expression doesn't mean they are internally more beautiful. They just happened to be blessed with and or work at the expressing the beauty that lies within us all.

[vegetables]

Originally Posted by MuslimZ

I'm an english major... the answer is obvious...

so you think you're cool

[Ilikemyscarf]

Originally Posted by ChotooMotoo

As a Muslim woman, I feel that my talents are fairly useless. Where exactly does musical aptitude get you these days anyway?

You can sing and dance for your hubby (not in the state you're in now obviously :P )