Notes from Ajmal Roshan and the margins of Amare Mortem.https://amaremortem.comenSat, 01 Aug 2026 22:38:47 GMTThe truth has terrible bedside manners, but at least it stays until you understand.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-305915335substack-note-305915335Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTI don’t know who needs to hear this: Your younger self never needed you to become impressive. They needed you to become someone they would have felt safe around.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-305913283substack-note-305913283Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTFor those of you who are used to self-sabotaging: Some dreams are taking longer because they’re waiting for the version of you who won’t destroy yourself after receiving them.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-305914771substack-note-305914771Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTLoneliness only survives by convincing us that shared human experiences are private tragedies. Remember, we all meet the same fears, just at different times.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-305333277substack-note-305333277Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTSelf-awareness is a drug. At some point, examining yourself stops being growth and becomes another way of making everything about you. Make the necessary changes, so you can become addicted to becoming, not to watching yourself try.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-305046669substack-note-305046669Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTIn case you missed it. 🙌https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-305341631substack-note-305341631Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTSome people remember your reasons. Others only remember what those reasons made you do. My new piece is about the five versions of you that remain after hurting someone else. Why Should You Get to Forgive Yourself?https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-304757437substack-note-304757437Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTAuthenticity is rewarded on Substack. Imitation just feels safer while you’re waiting to be rewarded.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-304445594substack-note-304445594Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTChildren need to be protected because the worst people want their beliefs accepted by those who are not yet able to challenge them.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303921481substack-note-303921481Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTI’m tired of politics because I’m tired of seeing the worst qualities in people all at once.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303920462substack-note-303920462Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTI learned something about trying to save people. When someone I care about is hurting, my first impulse is to change their mood. But first, how do I know I have understood what they are feeling? And second, how do I know the feeling is not carrying them somewhere they need to go? Love doesn’t always need to turn on the light. Sometimes it is enough to sit beside someone while their eyes adjust.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303919228substack-note-303919228Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTEveryone is emotional. Some people express it openly, some hold it in until it speaks through other parts of their life, and some release it through action and let it pass. The difference is not who feels more, but where the feeling goes.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303696580substack-note-303696580Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTSometimes prayer is not asking life to change. It is asking not to become someone cruel while waiting.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303440050substack-note-303440050Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTA riddle for the table today: ⁉️ No AI. No cheating. 😇 The more you hide me, the more of your life I control. I convince you that being seen is more dangerous than staying silent. The moment you name me, I begin to lose my power. What am I? @Mailiis guessed correctly, test yourself before looking. ✨https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303278189substack-note-303278189Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTThe Writer’s Table - Week 7 🥇 #1 goes to @mel ୨୧⋆.˚for 01: the internal monologue. Mel takes something as familiar as the voice inside our heads and makes it feel strange enough to examine again. The piece moves effortlessly between psychology, philosophy, and everyday experience, exploring why some people think in words while others experience thought through images, sensations, or pure knowing. What impressed me most was how accessible it remained. Mel never sacrifices depth for clarity. The idea that we can observe the voice in our heads, and therefore may not actually be that voice, opens the piece into a much larger question about identity: who is speaking, and who is listening? A perfect example of how a complex subject can become an inviting conversation when the right writer gets hold of it. Congratulations, Mel. The Writer’s Table Week 7 winner. 🎬👏https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303119371substack-note-303119371Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTThe Writer’s Table - Week 7 🥈🥉 #2 goes to @Torrie for When Yesterday Borrows Tomorrow. This is a perfect example of what clarity and intelligence can create. Torrie begins with a cold cup of coffee and a baking pan, then uses those ordinary moments to explain how the brain predicts what comes next based on what has happened before. The piece becomes much bigger than predictive processing. It shows how easily yesterday can enter a new relationship, conversation, or opportunity before the present has had the chance to prove itself. A short, scientific, and practical read. #3 goes to @Valentina for When Did Being Myself Online Start Feeling Like a Content Strategy? This is extremely relevant to anyone who creates online. Valentina writes about the moment authenticity starts becoming another performance, shaped by trends, metrics, and what we believe people will respond to. I love when creators put their own voice into their work, and this was such a strong example of that. The piece also makes a beautiful case for having pillars instead of forcing yourself into one narrow niche. A person is not a category. They are a pattern. Please visit their profiles to read and support both pieces. These were two of the strongest submissions this week, and both deserve far more eyes.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-303113088substack-note-303113088Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTFamily photographs are strange. Everyone is smiling because nobody knows yet what the picture will eventually mean.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-302010856substack-note-302010856Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTOne day, you realize your parents were becoming older while you were busy becoming yourself.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-302010060substack-note-302010060Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTEvery relationship eventually reveals who gives, who takes, who stays to rebuild, and who runs the moment love stops being easy.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-302007453substack-note-302007453Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTFriendship is one of the few places where wasting time can become evidence of a life well spent.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-302009409substack-note-302009409Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTThe world is backwards. You don’t become yourself by adding more. You become yourself by putting down everything you carried to become someone else.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-302021855substack-note-302021855Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTSometimes we have to hurt people’s feelings because what is right matters more than what keeps them comfortable. Pain is not always cruel. For someone living inside a delusion, it may be the first honest thing that gets through.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-301983330substack-note-301983330Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTI want the kind of relationship with God that is not built only in emergencies.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-301900919substack-note-301900919Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTLife may never apologize for what it put you through. Sometimes it just gives you a life where the worst thing that happened is no longer the most interesting thing about you.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-301889577substack-note-301889577Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTThe only writing advice you’ll ever need: Write something you would read. Everything else is noise.https://substack.com/@ajismynickname/note/c-301260771substack-note-301260771Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT