The past, the present and the future: Life story.

I was born on April 25, 1996 at Memorial Herman hospital. I'm the fourth of seven children in my family, which can be a blessing and a nightmare. A few months after my birth my family and I went back to Pakistan for a wedding or something and i got extremely sick, so we had to come back to America to avoid my death.After that we didn't go back to Pakistan for fifteen years. We don't have any other family here in America, so sometimes it gets lonely on holidays and stuff, but my huge immediate family makes up for it. When i was younger i moved around a lot and never stayed at the same school for more than a year. I've been to so many elementary schools that i can't even remember all the names. When i was almost done with 3rd grade, we finally settled down at an apartment complex. We've lived there ever since. 

I've went to the same school since 4rth grade and will probably go there until the end of my high school life. When we settled down i was also forced to start Sunday school (which i hated at the time) at the local mosque. When I started middle school i found a secure social circle and clung to it. Sixth through seventh grade was the graphic-tees-and-skinny-jeans-with-converse phase. Eighth grade is when i started to transform into who i am today. I left the old social circle, made new friends, and focused a little more on school and religion. By the time i was in high school i guess i matured and focused on things that really mattered to me. 

Now i'm a junior and things are going pretty smoothly for me. This year i started to wear the hijab, the head covering Muslim women wear. I got more serious about Islam Freshman year and I guess this past summer i had a lot more time to get more educated in my religion. Wearing the hijab is a very important life decision and i surprised myself when i decided to wear it publicly. Nonetheless, it was one of the best decisions i've ever made.  

When it comes to the future, i can't seem to form a complete picture in my head. I have a bunch of thoughts of what i want here and there, but i still don't know what i really want. Well, i know i want the perfect husband that makes me food and comes home early and buys me chocolate and clothes. Of course, i want to graduate high school and go off to college. I would love to live in the dorms in college, but i don't think it's going to happen mainly because of the costs. And also because i don't know if i can leave my family like that, especially my mom, who is one of my greatest blessings. I always dream of being a city girl on my own in Chicago or New York, but it doesn't seem very likely. I want to get married sometime around 23. (Islamic marriages are a lot different from American marriages) I imagine my husband to be very intellectual and funny. He should love to read and also be serious about religion. He should be very nice and family-oriented. He should love me. As for kids, i might want two boys and a girl. The boys will protect their little sister. The boys' names might start with W. And the girl..no clue. I'm still fairly unsure about my future career. I'm thinking about becoming a nurse and doing that for a few years and then coming back to high school to teach biology or something. I also want to work in a nursing home for a time, and be a librarian because librarians are awesome in a secretive, under-cover way. I also want my future husband to build me a home library. After all that, me and my husband will retire and live happily in a small, cozy house away from everyone. We will visit our family from time to time, and will travel before we lose the ability to walk. I pray that we will die peacefully. 

 That is all. Thanks for reading. Have a cookie.