About

Shareefa, writer and creator of Shareefahayat. Laying in some grass with flowers and a book.

What is this blog about?

In short? I am slowly discovering what it means to be alive, to find freedom, and to pursue a life that feels like happiness.

We are all quietly trying to make sense of what is going on in our heads, who we are becoming, what we want, and what any of it means.

I’d like to think that starts with conversation.

It can be dumb. It can be vulnerable. It can be wrong. It can be simple and deeply unprofound. Not every thought needs to be a revelation to be worth sharing. Sometimes, it is enough for someone to recognize a little piece of themselves in what you have to say.

There is something beautiful about discovering that a thought you have been carrying alone has lived in someone else’s mind, too.

So this blog is where I share what I am working through as I navigate my twenties, self-discovery, love, freedom, happiness, uncertainty, and the strange experience of becoming.

If something I write makes even one person feel a little less alone, or gives words to something they have felt but never quite known how to say, then I think it was worth saying.

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