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March 19, 2012
February 1, 2012
I miss my dad
I miss just sitting in the same room as him and not saying anything. I miss talking to him about his day at work and his life and thoughts. I miss talking to him about Man Utd and I miss talking to him about the Pakistan cricket team.
I miss giving him these huge hugs out of the middle of nowhere when we both happen to be standing at the same time and hugging him by surprise.
I just miss him.
Exactly 1 month before I see him, in sha Allah.
January 22, 2012
It’s a big Sunday of football today/right now
I miss my brother. I would ALWAYS watch the football with him. It used to one of our things. When we didn’t go to Old Trafford to watch United we’d always take over the living room and watch the games.
Today it’s Man City v Spurs (happening right now - 0-0 at half time) and then it’s the big one, Arsenal v Man Utd.
I want the first game to be a Spurs victory or a draw and for Man Utd to win, of course.
We’ll see how it plays out. I love these big game days.
I’m thinking of you, bro! Soon we’ll be watching the games together again!
January 17, 2012
"You miss a person the most when you have something to share with them, to tell them, but you can’t. That’s the hardest kind of missing because all others are just remembrance or cherishing memories etc. This kind of missing is helpless."
— Paraphrase of something someone once told me.
January 15, 2012
I’m “home”sick
Today’s been really tough. It’s been an emotionally brutal day. I’ve just been going through the day in zombie mode and just thinking about everything.
I’ve been missing moments and things and… yeah. Some made me sad and others made me smile and the ones that made me smile made me feel even worse.
This is all so hard.
I talked to my sister for a while and that distracted me a bit but not really. Ibby ‘talked’ to me for ages and that was incredibly cute. He’s growing up so fast and is at that incredibly cute phase kids go through before they turn in to monsters.
I’m going to try to distract myself by going to the mall with my house mate and then for a three hour walk like yesterday.
August 25, 2011
Anonymous asked: I miss you :"( Come back!
I’m back, anon, there’s no need to miss me any more…
August 13, 2011
I’m missing my friends.
Before I came to Saudi for the first time I thought that my relationship with my closest friends was going to strain. They were all doing their own things and I was going on to be on the other side of the world and totally out of the loop with everything that was going on with them at home. That fear was realised to a fairly deep extent when, over the course of my first stint in Saudi, I hardly talked to them. It was as though a slow wedge had crept in between us and as time went on it drove us a little bit further away from each other. When I went home in July this was definitely seen in person. I didn’t spent anywhere near as much time as I would have liked to have with my closest friends and I didn’t even SEE some of them. I wasn’t good enough at all and I felt so guilty.
July 25, 2011
Family
If there’s one thing about this trip that has been really great is my relationship with my family. I’ve said before that there have been a few things that haven’t quite matched up to my expectations like praying at the mosque or seeing my friends but the situation at home has been, mostly, great.
July 21, 2011
Things I’m not happy with…
I feel like this trip home has been really great in so many ways but there are a couple of things that could have been better. I know there’s the thing about being grateful but there were a few things I really wanted to do before I got home and the thing is that I haven’t really lived up to those things… yet. The only problem is that time is running out… I’m back to Saudi on Wednesday. Time has flown by.
June 1, 2011
shikwaa-deactivated20110624 asked: Yay! You're back! Tumblr missed you, yo.
I didn’t really go away for all that long :) It’s good to be back now.
March 22, 2011
Things I don’t miss about England…
You know, I’ve written more than a few posts about how Saudi’s been difficult at times and how I miss home but, once in a while, I hear something about what’s happening at home and I realise that I’m so, so far away from that and that I’m totally immune to it all. That feeling’s a relief.
Read more to see some of the things I really don’t miss…
November 2, 2010
14. A photo of one of your favourite family members
Well, I had my brother a few days ago and in that post I wrote about how I was torn over selecting my niece. Well, today the opportunity has come up for me to make it up to her.
She’s awesome, she smiles loads, she’s warm and friendly (sometimes), she’s just under two (23 months old), she’s growing up so fast, and she’s totally missed by me at the moment.
Right now, it’s been just over three weeks since I last saw her. I’ve actually gone longer without seeing her twice. Once when she went abroad for 6 weeks and once when I was in London for a month doing my TEFL course. Still, it doesn’t mean I don’t miss her. When I was at home I was seeing her everyday. Since then I’ve seen her 3 or 4 times on Skype. It’s hardly the same and I have a bad feeling she’s going to start to forget me but I’ll just have to make it up to her when I do see her. If the title of this post was “the person you miss the most” she’d win hands down. Right now, she’ll have to settle for being my favourite family member.
October 26, 2010
7. A photo of someone you love.
This is one of the easiest pictures to chose for this blog. I hesitated for a moment and was going to pick my niece but then I decided to use a picture of my brother instead. He’s my favourite person in the world and that’s for a million and one reasons. Sure, we have some differences - I like cool things and he’s boring - but we have way more things in common. It’s not just that though. I trust him with my life and can’t imagine what things would be like if he wasn’t there to support me when I needed it the most. At times I think that I haven’t been able to be there for him the way he has for me but, hopefully, that is starting to change, even though I’m 4000 miles away. I miss him everyday.
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