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Haris's avatar

Damn this is beautiful 😭

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

thank you, i’m grateful it resonated

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🍂Sa. Khan's avatar

رنگ رقصاں ہیں اور کچھ بسنتی پتنگیں ہیں لاہور کی

کیا دھنک مو قلم اک مصور نے پھیرے ہیں اس شہر میں

عابد رضا~

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

khoobsurat!

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Halima's avatar

Sooo beautiful 🥹 made me feel so cosy and at home with Lahore <3

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

thank you sm halima. your essay inspired me. 🌸✨

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Fatima Mehdi's avatar

“there is a version of me that only exists with you” made me so emotional 😭 sooo beautiful.

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

that came from a very full heart, i’m so glad it reached yours 🥹🤍 thank you for holding it with so much tenderness.

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theinqilabidiaries's avatar

this is so beautifully written🥹❤️ I’m Pakistani too but never went to my own country InshAllah one day I can

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

thank you so much 🥹🤍 and inshAllah, one day you will and when you do, may it feel like pieces of you finally returning home ✨

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BK's avatar

Never a trip to Pakistan without liberty market but Lahore is different every time i am there. The best place on earth with my family on the airport equally excited to see me, and the saddest place when i am leaving. But i can never not love it!

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

this gave me goosebumps! it’s exactly that, isn’t it? lahore holds both the hellos and the heartbreaks. it changes every time, yet somehow always feels like home 🤍 thank you for being here B

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momina's avatar

fav post on the internet this week

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momina's avatar

AREEBA POST AND ITS LAHORE?? DAY MADE.

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

okay but now my day is made 🥹🌸

thank you for meeting my words with so much joy, it feels like you saw lahore through the same soft filter i did. sending you gajray, morning chai, and a sky full of old city pinks 💌

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momina's avatar

this made me smile so hard omg woman ily

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momina's avatar

what a way to say goodmorning

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

cutu <3

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Fatima Z.'s avatar

Awww this is so cute… I kinda wanna do one for my city now 😁

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

yes yes yes!! cities deserve love notes too. can’t wait to see yours 💌

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Theo's avatar

I've always wondered who wrote that nazam ( seems like a ghazal honestly) , my father said his batch mates used to write a ton of poetry ( a lot of it on Lahore ) who knows maybe it was one of them

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Areeba ♡'s avatar

‘yeh jo lahore se mohabbat hai’ is actually the title of a poetry collection by dr. fakhr abbas. it includes a ghazal by the same name

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Theo's avatar

Ah idk why I've always seen unknown poet then

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