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A night out with the ladies. Dinner was amazing as always. Maryland Night Life. Phillips Seafood.
Hyatt Regency Baltimore, MD
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My amazing Fiancée and I. I love him to pieces. Half of My Deen!
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Time to give thanks to my lord. Great Masjid ( Place of Worship)! Hidden Gem in the heart of NYC.
My love for food is one of the many reasons I chose to dive into the hospitality field. It’s my passion and can’t wait to put my stamp on this industry.
Zahirah Hutton ENG 1101 D340 Project 1: Thinking in Writing
Some of the best thoughts and ideas come to me when I’m sitting in bed, the good bad and the ugly. Particularly this morning at 6:30am it was nothing but pure bliss. I got a call from my fiancée, normally I wouldn’t receive this early of a call but he forgot I didn’t have school on Fridays but it was cool I missed him anyway. Thoughts of my future with him seem to surround me more and more with each passing day. Every time we talk it just reminds me of how close I am to seeing him again. These thoughts seemingly make me a happier person and I don’t dwell on the negative anymore, now I’m not naïve but I just don’t seem to care anymore. If my thoughts don’t involve him I’m generally thinking about my spiritual capacity. At 12:30 pm it’s time to make prayer which is called Salatul- Dhuhr one of five mandatory prayers that we make as Muslims. I’m always trying to find out ways to better myself as a Muslim woman it makes worshiping my lord a little more of a challenge than others. With all the wars and Middle Eastern based movies going on it puts a bad taste in some people’s mouths about Islam. Generally I find myself having to defend the beauty of Islam as a whole because of a few individuals’ mistakes or wrong doings. So naturally I’m always trying to get stronger and maintain a solid spiritual base with myself and my Lord. These are easily two topics I think about often but I know I have room to think of other pressing things in my life. It’s not that they aren’t important it’s just that now currently they are becoming more important whereas the other where a consistent thought. As much as I like my thought process I could be thinking more about my future career path and where I want to be in the next three or four years. Not only educationally but also financially, potentially I would be starting a family and that’s not a cheap dream to have. I would like to at least be stable enough take care of myself and my husband but also a baby in the future. In the mist of college I would like to be working in a position that potentially catapults me into my dream career position. As soon as possible I would like to set some college and future goals for myself ones that I can complete in the next three to four years to come. One of the few things I can pay less attention to would be my phone, I’m always being told that I should stay off my phone whether I’m home, work, school or talking to friends. Maybe now that I think about it what’s in my phone isn’t that important I miss out on things because I’m so preoccupied. Learning to put the phone down when necessary shouldn’t be too hard but it’ll defiantly be a work in progress.
Zahirah Hutton
ENG 1101
3/15/2015
Writing My Brain
Never did I think my everyday routines would be such a fascinating topic. Until you actually have to put them down on paper you don’t realize the path in which your brain goes throughout the day. Well in now being conscious of the things I think about during the day I realized there is indeed a pattern. If I was speaking to my present self from five years in the future I would defiantly have some great advice for myself. I would push myself to think about more important things as well as encourage myself not to think so much and have fun. I’m sure you’re probably interested to see what I was thinking about or maybe you’re not but I’m going to tell you anyway.
I remember that day when all I could think about was being happily married to my best friend and till this day I still feel that way. I was looking forward to the thrills and blissful mornings that come with marriage. In the mist of all of that I never thought about the long term to the extent that I had a road map for the future ahead with my husband. You can’t live in NYC and pay rent with love alone certain moves have to be made in order to live a comfortable lifestyle. Zahirah you really need to assess your life and take control of your future to put things into order and perspective. You can’t expect to marry someone and still live at home with Mom & Dad it’s not just you anymore. Nothing in life comes to you easily especially if it’s worth the fight trials & tribulations. I’ve always had my mom and dad backing me up and I still do now but it’s different because I’ll need to be that wife that can stand on her own and show the same strength I see in my mom every day. Zahirah I’m telling you from experience marriage is a beautiful thing but it’s also a lot of work. As long as you have people in your corner that love you you’ll be just fine.
Besides my love life I spiritual being needs to play a more active role in my life. Not to say that I’m not always conscience of it but I tend to do some things that conflict with what I should be doing. I remember February 9th 2015 at 12:30 it was time for my hourly prayer which is Salatul-Dhuhr which means prayer or homage in Arabic. It’s one of the many reminders to me that allow me to correct my wrongs and get me closer to my lord. I feel so much clarity after I perform my prayer, which is just one of five obligatory throughout the day but there’s plenty opportunity to perform more than five. As I get older I’m becoming more seriously involved in my beliefs and I’m finding that this time around I’m doing it for myself and not my parents. As a kid living in your parents household you tend to have no choice of what you want to believe in whether you agree or not. So in doing that I would just make prayer or read the Holy Quran because that’s what was required of me. Not really understanding what I was reading and the reason behind what I was doing. Knowing what I know now I wish I would have taken advantage of those times but it’s also my parents doing. I feel if I was sat down and explained in detail the beauty of Islam when I was younger then I would know so much and wouldn’t have to play catch up as much. For one the teachings are fine it’s the Arabic language that’s hard to grasp. So I’m here to tell myself I need to get on the ball and focus on getting myself right spiritually for myself. Now that I have someone to help me through this journey we can learn from each other and in turn I’ll be a stronger Zahirah and that’s all I can ever ask for.
Now that I’ve taken the step to college I really should be trying to get jobs in my line of work for the career I’ve chosen for myself. Since the age of sixteen I’ve only had jobs in retail and that’s cool and all for starting out when I was in high school but now that I’m an adult and I have a different level of priorities something has to give. Not only are these jobs not financially stable but they put me in no position to attain the position I wish to possess in the hospitality field. In saying I need to work harder to put myself in a better financial standing as well as secure my future. I’ve always been one that loved money I mean who doesn’t but even in middle school I would sell all kinds of things cell phone cases, phone charms as well as chargers. My dad used to work in a cellphone store and that gave me an opportunity to test my skills and from there that’s how this entrepreneur came to be. It’s not that I’m not trying it’s just that I have been highly distracted as of late. In the middle of planning a wedding having not seen my fiancée in 8 months to finally seeing him has me completely flustered but in a good way.
I think that the majority of my generation suffers from I.P.U (Intensive Phone Usage). I’m not as bad as some people I know but it has gotten to a point where I realized it can potentially become a big problem. Sometimes I tend to zone off and what’s in my phone is more entertaining then what’s being said in front of me. It wasn’t until my fiancée mentioned to me that I was constantly on my phone. We’ve made a rule that neither one of us will use our phones around each other which I had no problem doing it’s just that I didn’t know it’s gotten to that point. Super glad it was brought to my attention because I wouldn’t want to miss out the important things in my life whether that be personal or business wise. I’m finding a balance between staying current while still being cultured which is pretty cool.
