Husain Journal

Last week, I lost my temper with my daughter. Again. It wasn’t unexpected—it was painfully predictable. I know that anger only worsens things, that it distances me from the very people I want to be closer to. And yet, in the heat of the moment, all that awareness disappears. Rashness takes over, and I react in ways I later regret. So here I am, writing this not just as reflection—but as a reset. A Different Kind of Commitment I’ve tried before to fix my anger. Usually, I make a promise: I’ll stay calm for a week. It sounds reasonable, even disciplined. But somewhere around day two, the commitment fades into the background noise of daily life. This time, I’m trying something radically simple. Just one day. Not a week. Not a grand resolution. Just today, I will not raise my voice at my children. Tomorrow, I’ll renew the same promise. And then the next day. Instead of overwhelming myself with a long stretch of perfection, I’m choosing something smaller—somet...

Blood would have rushed to my head. The next moment you would have seen a wild look in my eyes, swearing at the critics, dragging them by their hair, beating them violently. And it likely had doused down the fire of the struggle there and then. Any short-sighted, quick-tempered guy would have presumed it bravery to knocking the bloody shit of those stupid folks and had went on record to admit it. But King was King for a reason. Though Dr Martin Luther King was falsely slapped with a series of excoriating accusations as evident in this interview, I was deeply moved by him because he didn’t get enraged, and continued to record his objections and rights in a logical and firm way. He was reproached for provoking violence and fanning the fire of unrest which had 2 people killed and worth $300,000 property destroyed, but never did it appear that he was losing his cool and logic. We know that Dr King was fighting for the rights of negros in the United States because since age...