Things I Wish I Had Brought From Home

The fantasies of a university student learning to live away from home

Sharika Hafeez
ILLUMINATION
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4 min readJan 16, 2021

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Traditional Sri Lankan cuisine with pol sambole (image from honestlyyum)

After a whole year spent withering away in my bed, consuming books mindlessly just to feel something in the middle of a pandemic, and unconsciously blocking off all thoughts of my future, receiving the acceptance letter to study at one of the most prestigious universities in Pakistan…

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Sharika Hafeez
ILLUMINATION

Writer. Physics student. Under the inky-black sky, with a steaming cup of chai in my hands, I watch the stars and I write.