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FRIENDSHIP SHOULD BE MORE THAN WHAT YOU CAN GAIN
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Some friendships are built around genuine connection. Others are built around convenience, access, money, influence, attention, or what the other person can provide.
But I also think we sometimes misunderstand intentional friendship.

Being a good friend doesn't mean someone owes you their loyalty forever because you helped them. Helping someone should not become a silent contract where they now owe you their life.

And yes, people will betray you. Even people you were genuinely intentional about. That doesn't mean intentional friendship is pointless.

It means we need to become more intentional about who we allow close to us, how we treat people, and the kind of friend we are becoming ourselves.

Because at some point, we have to ask ourselves:
If I had nothing to offer someone, would they still want me around?

And more importantly…

If I were my own friend, would I genuinely want me in my life?

That's the part we don't talk about enough.

Read the carousel and tell me what you think.

This page isn't here to tell you what to think. It's here to challenge how you think.

#Relationships #Friendship #FriendshipMatters #IntentionalFriendship #RealFriendship by @ahmed_thinks

Part 1

FRIENDSHIP SHOULD BE MORE THAN WHAT YOU CAN GAIN.
Some friendships are built around genuine connection. Others are built around convenience, access, money, influence, attention, or what the other person can provide.
But I also think we sometimes misunderstand intentional friendship.

Being a good friend doesn't mean someone owes you their loyalty forever because you helped them. Helping someone should not become a silent contract where they now owe you their life.

And yes, people will betray you. Even people you were genuinely intentional about. That doesn't mean intentional friendship is pointless.

It means we need to become more intentional about who we allow close to us, how we treat people, and the kind of friend we are becoming ourselves.

Because at some point, we have to ask ourselves:
If I had nothing to offer someone, would they still want me around?

And more importantly…

If I were my own friend, would I genuinely want me in my life?
That's the part we don't talk about enough.

Read the carousel and tell me what you think.

This page isn't here to tell you what to think. It's here to challenge how you think.

#Relationships #Friendship #FriendshipMatters #IntentionalFriendship #RealFriendship by @ahmed_thinks

Part 2

Sometimes you can't see the entire game while you're busy playing it.

Being outside the situation doesn't automatically make someone right, but being inside it doesn't automatically mean you see everything either.

Maybe we need to stop treating every correction as criticism and every different opinion as hate.

Sometimes, someone is simply showing you a perspective you couldn't see from where you were standing.

Listen. Consider. Think. Then make your own move.

What if the perspective you almost ignored was actually something you needed to see?

This page isn't here to tell you what to think. It's here to challenge how you think.

#ThinkBeyondTheObvious #DifferentPerspective #CriticalThinking #DeepThoughts by @ahmed_thinks

Part 1

Sometimes you can't see the entire game while you're busy playing it.

Being outside the situation doesn't automatically make someone right, but being inside it doesn't automatically mean you see everything either.

Maybe we need to stop treating every correction as criticism and every different opinion as hate.

Sometimes, someone is simply showing you a perspective you couldn't see from where you were standing.

Listen. Consider. Think. Then make your own move.

What if the perspective you almost ignored was actually something you needed to see?

This page isn't here to tell you what to think. It's here to challenge how you think.

#ThinkBeyondTheObvious #DifferentPerspective #CriticalThinking #DeepThoughts by @ahmed_thinks

Everyone keeps telling you to change your environment if you want to grow.

Move to a better city.
Find better friends.
Join a better circle.
Get a better job.

And honestly, they're not entirely wrong.

But here's the question I think we don't ask enough:

What if you change your environment but take the same mindset with you?

Your environment can expose you to opportunities.

It can introduce you to people.

It can inspire you.

It can influence you.

But it cannot think for you.
It cannot engage for you.
And it cannot grow for you.

Maybe the question isn't always:

"Do I need a new environment?"

Maybe sometimes we should ask:

"Am I engaging enough with the environment I already have?"

Read through and let the question sit with you.

This page isn't here to tell you what to think. It's here to challenge how you think.

#WhatDoYouThink #DeepThoughts #Mindset #PersonalGrowth #CriticalThinking by @ahmed_thinks

Just picked random pictures to celebrate myself for the years of resilience, years of putting in the work and years of hardship but I kept moving

Happy birthday to myself, I wish myself more blessings, my great achievement, more greater height and many more wins🤲

It's time to show the world what you've gat, I gat my back

#happybirthday🎂 #morewins #moreachievements

Shirt from
@costly__fashion

Stay blessed

Shirt and cap from
@costly__fashion

Costly to the world

#luxury by @ahmed_thinks

Part 2
We talk so much about believing in yourself that sometimes we forget that we're human beings who also need other human beings.

Yes, believe in yourself.

Yes, love yourself.

Yes, build your confidence.

But don't let self-love turn into the belief that you must never need anyone.

Sometimes your own belief will carry you.
Sometimes someone else's belief will remind you why you started.
Sometimes you need someone to encourage you.
Sometimes you need someone to challenge you.
Sometimes you need someone to open a door you couldn't open yourself.
And no, someone benefiting from your success doesn't automatically make their support fake.

People can genuinely believe in you and still have something to gain from your success.

The real question is:

Who believes in you beyond what you can do for them?
And perhaps even more importantly...

Who will still believe in you when you're no longer winning?
Read the carousel and tell me what you think.

#AhmedThinks #SelfBelief #SelfWorth #PersonalGrowth #Mindset by @ahmed_thinks

Part 1

We talk so much about believing in yourself that sometimes we forget that we're human beings who also need other human beings.

Yes, believe in yourself.

Yes, love yourself.

Yes, build your confidence.

But don't let self-love turn into the belief that you must never need anyone.

Sometimes your own belief will carry you.

Sometimes someone else's belief will remind you why you started.

Sometimes you need someone to encourage you.

Sometimes you need someone to challenge you.

Sometimes you need someone to open a door you couldn't open yourself.

And no, someone benefiting from your success doesn't automatically make their support fake.

People can genuinely believe in you and still have something to gain from your success.

The real question is:

Who believes in you beyond what you can do for them?
And perhaps even more importantly...

Who will still believe in you when you're no longer winning?
Read the carousel and tell me what you think.

#AhmedThinks #SelfBelief #SelfWorth #PersonalGrowth #Mindset by @ahmed_thinks

After months of overthinking it,

I finally summoned the courage and let what will be, be.

After months of standing in between
starting content or not,
faceless or not.

I finally told myself, “I'm done hiding behind AI videos and AI voice-overs when there's so much of me and my thoughts that I want to share.”

So I asked ChatGPT, who has happened to be my online friend, a very big question — one that has been a fear of mine for a long time.

And here is the response.

So stay with me on this journey of being known for “my impact in people's lives.”

We're doing it a different way this time.

#startingover #startafresh #overthinking #beready by @ahmed_thinks

Part B

Sometimes I genuinely wonder if we've forgotten what it means to be human.

We've become so obsessed with race, religion, nationality, tribe, class, history and superiority that we've forgotten something very basic:

We're human beings before we're anything else.
I'm not saying history doesn't matter. It does.
I'm not saying cultures shouldn't be protected. They should.
I'm not saying differences don't matter. They do.
I'm asking why our differences so often become reasons to hate, discriminate, exploit or dehumanise one another.

The world is already full of enough problems.
There are cultures we haven't experienced, places we haven't seen, languages we haven't learned, people we haven't met and ideas we haven't discovered.

Why spend our limited time trying to prove that we're better than one another?

Maybe our differences were never meant to separate us.
Maybe they were meant to give humanity more to learn from.
I don't have the answer.

I'm genuinely asking:

Where exactly did we get it wrong?

Read the entire carousel before forming your opinion.
And if you disagree, that's okay.

Question the idea, not the person.

#Humanity #Racism #Equality #CriticalThinking #SocialCommentary by @ahmed_thinks

Part A

Sometimes I genuinely wonder if we've forgotten what it means to be human.
We've become so obsessed with race, religion, nationality, tribe, class, history and superiority that we've forgotten something very basic:

We're human beings before we're anything else.
I'm not saying history doesn't matter. It does.
I'm not saying cultures shouldn't be protected. They should.
I'm not saying differences don't matter. They do.
I'm asking why our differences so often become reasons to hate, discriminate, exploit or dehumanise one another.

The world is already full of enough problems.
There are cultures we haven't experienced, places we haven't seen, languages we haven't learned, people we haven't met and ideas we haven't discovered.

Why spend our limited time trying to prove that we're better than one another?

Maybe our differences were never meant to separate us.
Maybe they were meant to give humanity more to learn from.
I don't have the answer.

I'm genuinely asking:

Where exactly did we get it wrong?

Read the entire carousel before forming your opinion.
And if you disagree, that's okay.

Question the idea, not the person.

#Humanity #Racism #Equality #CriticalThinking #SocialCommentary by @ahmed_thinks

Being a good person doesn't mean being available to everyone.

You can love people and still say no.

You can care about someone and still create distance.

You can disappoint someone without doing something wrong.

Sometimes people aren't upset because you hurt them.

They're upset because you stopped making life convenient for them.

You are allowed to have limits.

— The Inner Standard

#theinnerstandard #boundaries #selfrespect💪 #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #emotionalmaturity #confidence #knowyourworth by @ahmed_thinks