Author: Manal
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Chapter 5: Sacrificing Half a Smile
Chapter 1: The Weight of ArrivalChapter 2: Roots of ResilienceChapter 3: Her Success BackfiresChapter 4: A Fragile Sense of Pride Chapter 5: Sacrificing Half a Smile In the midst of it all, she decided to take a break and visit her family back home. She absorbed her parents’ welcoming hugs and loving attention, like a dry sponge soaking…
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Chapter 4: A Fragile Sense of Pride
Chapter 1: The Weight of ArrivalChapter 2: Roots of ResilienceChapter 3: Her Success Backfires Chapter 4: A Fragile Sense of Pride The company’s stark white logo on the great revolving glass door she walked through every morning was a glaring reminder of how far she had come. Although the door led to the essentially empty reception hall, her…
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Chapter 3: Her Success Backfires
Welcome to chapter three of my corporate adventures series. Here are links to chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 1: The Weight of ArrivalChapter 2: Roots of Resilience Chapter 3: Her Success Backfires The project she was assigned in Germany suited her perfectly. Her role, together with another colleague, was to relaunch the English news section of the…
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Chapter 2: Roots of Resilience
It makes me happy that you are coming back to the second chapter of my story and adventure in the corporate world. If you haven’t read the first chapter, here is a quick link: Chapter 1: The Weight of Arrival Chapter 2: Roots of Resilience Having struggled with obesity early in life, and growing up as the…
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Chapter 1: The Weight of Arrival
Chapter 1: The Weight of Arrival It was another sleepless night. Her mind replayed the day’s events and conversations over and over again, like the incessant loop of a broken record. To this day, she fails to understand why she, in the not-so-distant past, compulsively repeated the details of her interactions at work in her…
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Sharing pieces of me…
It has been some time since my last blog. The latest writing assignment – part of my master’s degree in Creative Writing – kept me busy in November. And now I’m caught up with some work at the office to finish before the holidays. I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times already! ‘This time…
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An invitation to re-evaluate
Having been on the receiving end of disrespectful comments from someone I valued, and having felt the anger, sadness, and anxiety that came with it, I decided I won’t let them go unprocessed. It doesn’t matter now whether the person who made me feel this way did so intentionally or unintentionally. What matters is that…
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Here’s to a new beginning!
Not because it’s a Monday or that it’s 11.11.2024, but because I failed again! Although this is something I’m not very proud of, I will admit it; because I promised myself to be candid, transparent, and authentic. This might be the 20th time – could also be the 50th – that I break a good…
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The moment you find your work bestie!
If you’re anything like me, you might sometimes have a naïve outlook to the world when you first start a new job. That’s when you come genuinely excited to meet everyone, thinking they’ll welcome you with open arms, teach you everything and do whatever it takes to fully integrate you and lift you up so…
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“We’re not a social club!”
(True story) Sometimes we assume that people are like us, and while there are differences in the way we live our lives, at the core we’re similar. The things that make us laugh, the things that make us cry, the things we value the most, and the things we prioritise in life, like kindness, empathy,…
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