Let's talk about one of my favourite books

Laraib Zafar

Apr 5 • Daily Journal 📓

My Daily Journal

Day 5

تاریخ تھی پانچ اپریل، شہر تھا لاہور کا، اور وقت تھا صبح آٹھ بجےکا😔

(If you understand the above lines then we have same trauma without any introduction🫂)

Sleep log

1:00 am- 8:00am

Wake up at 8

8:00 am- 1:00 pm

We had breakfast, packed our bags to head back to Faisalabad. The work we came for was done, so we got back to normal life... Reached home around 12:30, fell on the bed, was sooo thakk gai😮‍💨

1:00 pm- 7:00 pm

Then I eat sandwiches and watched Alex sir's videos and slept.

Then I wake up at 7 almost🥸

7:00 pm- 11:00 pm

Then had dinner, made chai( kuch kaam aap mujhay har jagah krtay payen gay jis mein se aik chai banana or peena hai😋)

Then watched insta and maala reels of course😔. The people who don't know about MAALA, its a book written by nemrah ahmed. As today is maala day so let's talk about maala:

If someone wants to read a good book give MAALA a chance. Most people didn't like ending or neither did I but I loved the journey. I love the characters. I love maala. I love mahir. I learned so much from them. People who say maala is a waste of time just by its ending are so immature🤏🏻. I'll always recommend maala no matter what.

Maala,

وہ اپنی فیملی کی فکسر تھی وہ مالا تھی

that girl went through so much. She survived her colleague's betrayal, lost her business after five years, and then Kaif, who she trusted completely, betrayed her too. She even lost her mom, was a victim of black magic, and married an assassin. Her marriage was abusive, and she had to run from her assassin husband across countries all by herself. Her brother didn't care, her sister was too busy, and her parents were gone. She was totally alone, raising her child as a single parent. Then, her husband locked her in a cooling container and injected her with something that made her son autistic.

After all that, she healed herself and wanted to live again, but Nemrah had other plans (I'll never forgive you for that). Maala ended up being a femicide victim; her assassin husband killed her.

Maala, who, after every heartbreak and hurdle, was standing tall, independent, and a happy single mom at the end (just skip the last 20 pages if you can't handle the pain😭😭), and people say that's not a healing book... like, seriously? You must have read the wrong Maala.

Also, Mahir, the gentleman, the character you were, I'll always hold on to the things I've learned from him. An amazing character.

And one of the most important lessons I learned from MAALA is: "مکتوب"

Everything is written. The only thing to worry about is what we take with us from this world.

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