I was late for a meeting this morning, so I didn’t have time to change into my lab coat. I entered the meeting room in my batsuit abaya to find everyone gaping at me.

Fatima, you look different today.

Ya, well, I don’t always wear the lab coat you know. I actually wear an abaya to the mall.

That was so weird. It was as if they had stopped seeing me as the “girl who joined our company” & I was more “one of us now”. But when they saw me in my abaya, I was “one of us who used to be that girl who joined our company”.

Finally, the two me’s meet!