The Soul Journal: Recent Episodes
Cliffe Zaki
We've all had our good and bad days. It is the saddest ones that mostly count and make us think more about life, and more often, bring the fundamental shift that compels us to change. The Soul Journal is a podcast that contains relatable and captivating life stories, experiences, and struggles. Join me as I begin this journey, where we strive to make life more meaningful and bearable for all.
This podcast episode explores our culture of constantly seeking validation and likes on social media, and how this lifestyle can often leave us feeling empty inside. The episode shares struggles with comparing life to perfectly curated images on platforms like Instagram and feeling anxious about relationships or career milestones. It discusses how we mask inner turmoil by portraying a flawless image to the online world, and how this façade becomes exhausting to maintain.
Dear future husband,
Idon’t know you yet, and maybe we haven’t met, but I wonder if you know how long I have been waiting for you. I’d like to tell you that I waited for you, but I cannot pretend and say that I haven’t loved a few times too.
I have loved and felt everything that was there to feel about love. I have been suffocated and hurt a few times too. I have been hit by the reality of forevers that could never be and disappointed by expectations and promises that left me soaked in tears in my bed. But it’s now obvious that forever wasn’t scripted in any of those for me. It is obvious that it’s only for you that I was meant to be.
I can’t wait to have the best days of my life with you. I can’t wait to tell you of my dreams and aspiration to be a great designer and to own my cloth line too. I can’t wait to share with you my obsession with chocolates and ice creams; and how I would have them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and all-day through. I know this may be much for you, but you have to know that if you want that special love from me then you have to treat me right boo.
Love can be a lot of things. Love can be patient and love can be kind. Love can be that warmth of heavy socks on your feet or that raging boner in your heart. But real love, the kind of love that you fall in, isn’t like the one mentioned in the book of Corinthians. This love doesn’t care. This love can cut through your skin like a double-edged sword and leave you lifeless and broken. Or strangle you around the neck like a serpent until you suffocate.
Have you ever felt that you are stuck at some point in your life and see no sign of progress? You look around and see your peers progressing? or maybe you are in a relationship that you feel you are giving too much and not receiving love in the same amount? This episode is for you.
In this episode I discuss the three mistakes we make in our lives: feeling that we are missing out, comparing ourselves to others, and not looking after our happiness in our relationships.