.. that nobody cares. It is just relieving you know. Nobody holds consequences of your actions except your own self. Then you do what want or what you have to do (which might be opposite things) and not care about who thinks what. Everybody has their own opinion that might and might not be agreeable with yours.
And when you ask a person’s opinion, keep in mind that what is more important than these opinions is why do people have them in the first place. And at the end of the day, really nobody cares. El7amdolelaah ya3ny!
اللهم إنى أسألك رحمة من عندك تهدى بها قلبى، وتجمع بها شملى، وتلم بها شعثى، وترد بها الفتن عنى، وتصلح بها دينى، وتحفظ بها غائبى، وترفع بها شاهدى، وتزكى بها عملى، وتبيض بها وجهى، وتلهمنى بها رشدى، وتعصمنى بها من كل سوء،
Me: Dee, your social network always amazes me. I mean you know everybody! and everybody just knows everybody else. I think you stand really close to the center of this country.
Dee: Yeah, it scares me as well.
Me: I mean I bet somehow, if I asked you, I’ll find that your uncle went to school with the president somehow.
Dee: (Silence)
Me:(Skeptic) So did he?
Dee: No actually my uncle is the president’s doctor.
Me: Okay that’s it. Goodbye.
His friend handed him the watch, telling him he found it on the bathroom sink. He thanked him sincerely. With a smile. But he put the watch right beside him, instead of wearing it. He thought to himself:’ Why do I need the watch for? There is nothing in particular I am looking forward to, nothing I am waiting for. I am not late for anything neither am I early. Time is not passing slowly, but it is not flying by either. But at least, time is moving forward. The pace is not important now, as long as it is just… moving.’
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
“Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.”
“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, “WEll this isn’t to bad, I don’t have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I’m left-handed or right-handed” but most of us would say something more along the lines of “Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm,!”"
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
“Often times. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
“There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.”
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means ‘flunk’.”
“The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.”
“It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.”
“Instead of the word ‘love’ there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.”
“People don’t always get what they deserve in this world.”
“Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?”
“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”
“Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.”
“Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.”
“How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?”
“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”
“It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.”
“Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life. “
“It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”
Life is funny, as funny as Lemony Snicket can get!
I am so hating this post before even writing it. I hate the topic I am going to write about as a matter of fact, but that’s it. This seems to be the only interesting topic all over the place. Yes I am talking about the post-lost-match events!
But first let me tell you a true story that happened long before our prophet (PBUH) was born: Once upon a time, there were 2 horses belonging to 2 different families. The horses were called Da7es and 3′abraa2. The two families wanted to compete as to which was faster. But the family of Da7es during the race, played tricks to withhold 3′abraa2 from winning. When these tricks were found out, a war started and lasted for 40 bloody years. The end. (Source here, originally heard from my Boss. )
Now here is what I think: I think we should all get a life. I mean I shouldn’t be even giving this topic more blabbering than it already had and you shouldn’t be wasting more of your time reading this either(although I would be happy if you do!). It all boils down to what I always believed it. Countries are just virtual boundaries. They make things organized and into place. And yes, it is always easier to set rules and others to follow them. But it also gives a sense of division. A sense of differentiation. Me and You. Us and Them. And the reason this is bad is that these boundaries are all man-made. I understand the need of a person (specially men) to stand behind something bigger than themselves. An idea, a power, something. Something that they can protect and feel proud of at the same time. I totally get that. But when it comes to arrogance and people feeling that they are better just based on their sense of belonging, it just doesn’t make any sense.At the end of the day, countries are virtual boundaries.
I mean look at the bloody facts. Okay now pretend to be my sister: Cherry. Cherry doesn’t know anything about Football nor its tournaments nor matches. She was profoundly taken by the propaganda made by the media concerning the match. We had a conversation very similar to this one before the match started:
Cherry: ya3ny elly hayksab haya7′od eh? el kaas?
Me: la ya cherry.e7na bass.. han7′osh kaas el 3alam.
Cherry: ya3ny e7na fel 3aady msh ben7′osh kaas el 3alam?
Me: Ba2alna 3eshreeeen sana.. hence the cocacola ad.
Cherry: ya3ny e7na bass 3ayzeen ne7′osh kaas el 3alam? Bass keda? nesharek ya3ny?
Me: ah.. e7na msh tamma3een awy.
Cherry: This is .. this is.. (insert loud laugh here).. This is PATHETIC!!.. ya3eeny ya e7na.. ya3ny e7na bass 3ayezeen ne7′osh kaas el 3alam.. MUAHAHAHAHA!!
I couldn’t help but laugh along at the absurdity of this thing. It suddenly hit me. We are fighting for last place. hamm yedda7ak. w f eeh… fel kooora! Not science, not education, not politic not military,not movie-making 7atta, not management not technology not self-decipline, not ever cooking, nor fashion designing, not anything at all! We practically hold no place amongst those other respectable “countries”.But I guess we all know that.
(This is tha part where Hussen Fahmy enters and tells me to love my country as is, background music: zaay ma heyaa 7ebbaaahaaaa).
I personally think this doesn’t make any sense to me. I tell you this: I don’t relate to countries and I don’t think I should.A country for me represents a set of rules and laws by which I should abide. It is a license plate, a national ID, a speeding limit,a local currency,and a passport.Nothing more nothing less. Loving it is not anyone’s business. If there is something I should relate to as a human being, given that we do need to belong to something:That would be the fact that I am a Muslim. This is the only meaningful boundary or sense of belonging I feel we should all magnify. Being a Muslim is just beautiful. Not because I love Islam zay mahowa keda w 7′alas. La2a. I love Islam because IT IS TRULY GREAT. I deserve as a human being to relate to something worthwhile, something that matters, something that is perfect and just flawless, and there is nothing else that could satisfy such conditions other than being a Muslim and belonging to Islam.
And I don’t buy any of the ‘mashrebtesh men nelha’ songs either. These are all God’s blessings. Not my country’s blessings.
So when Egyptians illusion that we are better than Algerians by any means they are wrong. And when Algerians think otherwise they are wrong too. Comparing the two countries would yield very similar results as to why were we taking this match so pathetically seriously in the first place: we are merely two countries competing for the last place. And that is not just in football. We might have longer history. But that doesn’t make us any better. That just makes us older! I can’t see no maintaining to our ‘legendary history’ nowadays. But then what is the real comparison criteria between nations, if any? If we really care to know that is. There is just and only one I validate, whether or not you agree with it:
قال تعالى : ( يا أيها الناس إنّا خلقناكم من ذكر وأنثى وجعلناكم شعوباً وقبائل لتعارفوا إن أكرمكم عند الله أتقاكم إن الله عليم خبير ) الحجرات/13
So there is a divine purpose as to why people were created differently, why they get grouped in nations. And that is to ‘know and value’ one another. And at the same verse, the answer to the first question that bumps into our mind ‘who is better then?’.
It happens yes that differences in viewpoints or beliefs or preferences make people disagree, then argue, then fight then might even kill one another. But sob7an Allah, at the same Surah, we have the following verses:
وَإِن طَائِفَتَانِ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ اقْتَتَلُوا فَأَصْلِحُوا بَيْنَهُمَا فَإِن بَغَتْ إِحْدَاهُمَا عَلَى الأُخْرَى فَقَاتِلُوا الَّتِي تَبْغِي حَتَّى تَفِيءَ إِلَى أَمْرِ اللَّهِ فَإِن فَاءَتْ فَأَصْلِحُوا بَيْنَهُمَا بِالْعَدْلِ وَأَقْسِطُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُقْسِطِينَ
As a matter of fact, read Surat Al-Hujoraat from start to end. You will be amazed how it just fits the situation we have in hand.
I understand that people are angry that some people got injured and/or insulted. But we are all angry for the wrong reasons. They are angry at us because we are Egyptians. But we too became angry at them just because they are Algerians. It is just plain naive. We started doing the same mistake as they did: stereotyping, generalizing, growing angry for what is being said and transferred by the media.
Speaking of the media, I must say that they played an important role in making this really go from bad to worse. On either sides. With their media pouring false angry feelings into their nations, and our media with the whole victimization and ‘ah ya karamty’ game. Again, Read the same Suraah:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَن تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ
Rationalize people. Think. I am not saying we should not be sad of what happened. But reacting the way people are doing all over my social network, (and am sure yours as well) is just plain fruitless. No it is not fruitless. It is actually dangerous. It spreads hate, and anger among the people you know and you don’t know. I mean I wake up in the morning with 50+ status updates with hatred and anger and another 50+ status updates about how great we are as Egyptians (PUU-LEASE!) and you think I shouldn’t be angry too? It is toxicating.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَى أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلا نِسَاء مِّن نِّسَاء عَسَى أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّ وَلا تَلْمِزُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَلا تَنَابَزُوا بِالأَلْقَابِ بِئْسَ الاِسْمُ الْفُسُوقُ بَعْدَ الإِيمَانِ وَمَن لَّمْ يَتُبْ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ `الظَّالِمُونَ
(Same Suraah!)
And then you have the ‘hate groups and hate fans’. Why would I hate Algeria as a nation or as a country? I might hate what a group of really annoyed and unjustifiably angry group of maniacs did yes, but that doesn’t make me hate Algeria. That gives the west every right to hate Islam and Muslims because of Osama Bin Laden!
W ba3deen it is not like we don’t have enough enemies and issues on the table already (The name Israel ringing any bells?).
And then petitions? Seriously? I mean you think nothing else need gathering as many voices as we can to make things better for our lives and future? No petitions against being a poor ‘country’? No petitions against injustice INSIDE our ‘country’?
So please if you are reading this, here is what I am asking you to do: First read Suraat Al Hojoraat(if you are too lazy to bring the Quraan from the far away shelf, here is the Sura). The other thing, please post on facebook as many topics unrelated-to-the-match as you can. Anything. Self-improvement posts, cooking posts, islamic posts, pictures about nature, romantic poems, pictures about your latest trip to the kitchen, ANYTHING! People need mass distraction(That is given they should get a life, but just won’t.)
w Shokran!
(I am so resisting ending this post with something as cliche as: Spread Peace not War..)
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.
It’s not warm when she’s away.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long any time she goes away.
Wonder this time where she’s gone,
Wonder if she’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.
And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone,
But ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, only darkness everyday.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone,
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Rabbena yerrag3aha bel salama isA..
Sometimes,but not always, when I am in a middle of a fight, a problem or a dilemma,when I am panicking and cannot think straight, when I am terribly emotional, and probably crying, I zoom out.
I picture a camera zooming out from the window, zooming out to a street view, now a block view, now a country scale, then the whole globe, it zooms faster and faster. I get smaller and practically insignificant. I can picture the solar system now, then the Milky way. I don’t have a mental image of the whole universe, but now my mind is focused on how scattered the twinkling stars are in the dark heavens. I am now nowhere and my problem is non-existent. The vastness of the universe is big enough to swallow all my problems away. And then again, the Creator of this huge tremendous universe is certainly able to solve my now trivial and laughable problem.
So maybe I should focus on the universe more than its centre more often 
. It is a good mental trick and helps me gain perspective.
After reading juka’s breath-taking angry post, I decided to share this, I read it somewhere on a magazine and dug it up from Google. Read for future reference.
If I had my child to raise over again
I’d build self-esteem first and the house later
I’d finger paint more and point the finger less
I would do less correcting and more connecting
I’d take my eyes off my watch and watch with my eyes
I would care to know less and know to care more
I’d take more hikes and fly more kites
I’d stop playing serious and seriously play
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars
I’d do more hugging and less tugging
I’d see the oak tree in the acorn more often
I would be firm less often and affirm much more
I’d model less about the love of power
And more about the power of love.
~ Diane Loomans
أنظر بتململ من نافذة السيارة على المارة والسيارات المجاورة. يستوقفني سائق تاكسي تملأ سيارته دخان السجائر هو أيضاً ينظر بتململ إلى المارة في إنتظار أن ينفرج الزحام . أفكر في المستقبل في محاولة يائسة لحساب ما قد يحمله لنا. أعلم جيدا أن المستقبل بيد الله ولكن هذا لا يمنع من التخطيط والتفكير والكثير من الأمل والتفاؤل. أتذكر مقتبس من تشريح جراي
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.
. يأخذني تفكيري إلى مصر وما بها من تناقضات وما بها من منغصات للمعيشة يأخذني تفكيري إلى مباراة مصر والجزائر أنظر إلى الأعلى قليلاً لأجد كما هو متوقع السماء مليئة باللوح الإعلانية يأخذني تفكيري إلى ذلك السائق ثانيةً” أكيد مكنش نفسه يبقى سواق تاكسي “أفكر في أحلام الناس كم هي بسيطة، كم هي ساذجة أحياناً وكم هي صعبة المنال. أفكر أن هذه البلد قد تكون جميلة, قد تكون “أحسن من غيرها” ولكني أصر أني لا أرها كذلك ارى جمالها مستتراً أرى كثيراً من الأخطاء المسكوت عنها أرى كثيراً من الكفاح وقليلاً من النتائج أرى كثيراً من أمل فالتغيير وقليلاً من العمل للتغيير ولكن أليس هذا حال الدنيا كلها؟ مخطئ من يعتقد “أن الدنيا وحشة في مصر بس”. ولكنني سئمت هذه المشاكل
أسأل في ملل أمي الجالسة بجواري فالسيارة: مش بتحسي يا ماما ان البلد ده محبطة؟
امي: لسة وخده بالك؟
أنا : بس الدنيا كلها أصلاً صعبة مش مصر بس.. بس فيه فرق بين إحساس ياه دة ليس كتير على منوصل وإحساس مفيش فايدة
ماما: بمناسبة الإحباط فكرتيني صحيح أكلم بتاع الستاير إلي كل يومين تقع دي
أضحك بس لجوا. الدنيا بدأت تمشي شوية لكني مازلت أفكر فيما علي عمله اليوم وغداً أفكر في أناس رحلوا عنا مثل جدي ومصطفى محمود وعبد الوهاب مطاوع أفكر في والدي المسافر أفكر فيك أفكر في أختي إلي إتسرقت محفظتها و”رجعتلها تاني وهي ناقصة ميت جنيه” أفكر في تلك الأم المسكينة التي رأيتها البارحة وكانت تسأل “إذا كان حد عارف دكتور نفساني عشان ابنها عنده ميول سيكوباتية” أنتبه لصوت القارئ الشيخ وهو بيقول” والله ذو الفضل العظيم “
Today happens to be my first day at home. No 9 to 5 no more. At least for a while. I am supposed to be working on my masters thesis of course, but it can wait till I write this post.
You know what I really really really want right this very instant? Other than lunch. I want to travel. Preferably somewhere far . I want to pack, take more stuff than I need, ride on a plane and go somewhere else. Somewhere new and exciting. I am not generally picky, but I prefer somewhere to have lots and lots of gardens, and lakes, and theme parks.Somewhere with unexpected weather. Somewhere with a different language and habits and way of doing things. I envision myself sitting in one of those gardens and reading a cute travel guide to try and figure out what i’ll do with the day. I envision window shopping, getting lost, riding an expensive taxi,using my passport as identification, trying new tastes of food,experiencing new scents,trying to spell the hotel name, and asking native people to get pictures of me in front of statues and monuments.
But most of all, I want to leave before it all gets old. I envision myself coming back missing my home and family and the old places once again. I envision myself coming back refreshed.
“احنا جوا و تحت”
جورج عزمي –
I always always encounter one of two scenarios in parking
Scenario One: The pessimistic gjoe is not feeling very lucky and wants to find a parking. She will take the first parking space available even if it means she will have to walk for 3 or 4 minutes. Once she gets to her destination, she finds a perfect spot right infront of where she wants to go. She stares at the parking space in awe and wonders if she could run back to her car and park where it is closer.
Scenario Two: The Optimistic gjoe is feeling lucky and totally disregards the available yet far from destintation spots because she thinks based on some calculated guess, she will find a closer parking spot. She gets closer and closer until she passes the destination and now it is way back. The only way she could get back to the now VERY far away parking spots, is to circulate around half the buildings of the block, given the traffic that is almost always terrible, this costs her no less than 15-20 minutes.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a well, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”—Lazarus Long
Bottom-line:Nothing will make you happy. I tried everything. Nothing works. Coffee, chocolate, ice cream,facebook videos,friends, family, comfort, a good night’s sleep, blogging ,a feel-good movie, accomplishments, success, money,being in a relationship,being out of a relationship,weekends, being famous, being liked, being pretty,shopping,a brand new car, an qwerty mobile,travelling the farthest you can from home, sight-seeing, lazy Fridays, coming home after a long day at work, breaking a record, jet skiing,good loud music, good slow music, running, owning a pet,Grey’s Anatomy episodes, George Azmy jokes, Seinfeld jokes,losing weight, gaining weight, being healthy, being smart, a surprise gift, a coincidental seeing of a good old friend. NOTHING.
Bottom-line:These will all give you the same effect: A temporary sense of contentment or satisfaction, to be mistaken with everlasting happiness. They might differ in ‘length of time’ in which you stay content, but their effect always fades away, their effect is always temporary and every once and a while many of them could be your source of sadness or disappointment. And not to forget the very essence of human nature:Once you put your hand on something, you might pause in gratitude for one minute, but you will once again try to find what else you are missing and try to achieve/buy/reach it.
Nothing will grant you what you are really looking for: Something more real, longer lasting. No. Everlasting. We know the right answer. We know exactly where we would find eternal happiness. Out of pride, ignorance and even stupidity we blindfold our eyes from the truth.
Bottom-line: After many trials and errors, I tell you this(which I hope you probably already know): You will only find happiness when you are on good terms with God, your Creator, your blessing Granter.You will only find happiness when you do what you do for the right reasons, for the right neyya, when you remember God in all your actions.(For goodness sake, we sometimes PRAY without remembering God.) You will find happiness, if you do less sins. You will find happiness, if at least you stopped ignoring them, pretending that they don’t pile up on your heart and that you don’t wake up every once and a while in the middle of the night being terrified that you will die tonight when you are least prepared. The good news? There are a hundred ways to get closer to God. Either by praying more, fasting more, reading Qura’an more, Thekr more, selat ra7em more,Charity more. More good news? Your inner peace is guaranteed. More good news the presence or the absence of the previously mentioned blessings, won’t make that big of a difference. And I quote: من وجد الله ماذا فقد ومن فقد الله ماذا وجد
الا بذكر الله تطمئن القلوب
الرعد:28
من عمل صالحًا من ذكر أو أنثى وهو مؤمن فلنحيينه حياة طيبة ولنجزينهم أجرهم بأحسن ما كانوا يعملون –
النحل:97
المال والبنون زينة الحياة الدنيا والباقيات الصالحات خير عند ربك ثوابا وخير أملا
الكهف:46
مَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْ ذِكْرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكًا
طه:123
Bottom-Line: Nothing else works. Take my word for it.
This post is totally random.
I am finally reading through the five people you meet in heaven. I am at person four. It is really nice, but it took me alot of time to go past the boredom elly fel awel. It is really nice, but a bit straightforward for my taste.
You might have noticed the removal of the count-down widget. Yes, I am not proud of saying I failed. But at least I tried. The thing is, I always make it through the first day. Then break it the next. So my complaining have been on and off. (hence it always seemed to be stuck at 20)You know what, I didn’t entirely fail. My complaining rate drastically decreased. But didn’t disappear. I was thinking of making some complaining tolerance. I am not to completely deprive myself from complaining, but to allow myself for about 2-3 complains per day 3ashan matta2esh. What do you readers think?
I miss my morning coffee. I terribly miss it.
And then my job. Begad, this client is killing me slowly.
I took yesterday off and today half-off. But I am feeling terribly guilty about it. It is stopping me from enjoying the break. (7aga keda shabah lamma konna netfarag 3ala film leleet el emt7aan.)
I happy about me and my sister being back to normal again. Things have been terribly bad for a long while. It made me cry every time I am alone.
This post is not as interesting as I was hoping for.
You know what. I want my own cubicle for a change. My own mug, and cheesy notes on my desk. I never ever had that. My laptop is my office.
Speaking of my laptop, I changed my keyboard lately, 3ashan eddala2 3aleeh mayya. It kept pressing backslash all the time.
The new keyboard is “new” keda. Gives a nice feeling for the whole laptop.
What was so appealing for us as kids to be grown-ups? Begad. I wish now, someone will tell me that the day is over and it is time to sleep and punish me if I don’t.
I want to hold to a routine for my days for sometime. Yes it sounds boring. Terribly boring kaman. Bass I need some order.
I want to do some serious shopping.
You are probably reading this while you are at work. But let’s pretend the following:
You have a 100 Egyptian pounds and have the day off. You decided not to stay at home. And you decided to spend the whole 100 pounds. You can assume any weather you like. What would you do?
P.S: After 2 days of DOA, I finally survived the first day without complaining (Horraay!)
P.P.S: Yes, it’s a new custom header. Kont 3ayza a7ottoh last blog’s birthday on the 23 bass it was not ready then. Thanks to Fatima who also did the previous banner, she did this one too as a blog birthday present 
. What do we say in Egypt? Teslam edeeky
No story is complete from one angle. And if it is not complete then it is not true.
Interestingly enough, when you put all the angles together, you get a completely different story.
I have read such an interesting idea last week on Tim Ferris’s blog . I bet we all contemplated it every once and a while. I know I have. And I might as well do it.
The idea is quite simple: To stop complaining for 21 days. You keep track of the days and if you broke the code, you start the count-down all over again (To add some cognitive behaviour, they propose that you wear a bracelet on one hand and every time you complain, you switch the bracelet to the other hand ). Where will I keep track of my complain-free days? Maybe a widget here in the blog. Maybe as status updates. Maybe twitter. Yes. I will make it public as to increase the pressure of my failure to commit.
Why 21 days?a week to 14 days is too short and a month is too long. Yeah. 21 sounds fine. And it is tried too.
But, what is a complain? According to Tim Ferriss: It is describing an event or person negatively without indicating next steps to fix the problem.
Fair Enough. Ya3ny no more:
El denya el za7ma, el denya 7arr, el denya bard, el yoom batee2, el sho3′l kteer, ana messada3a, i am sick and tired, i am running late, people are stupid, people are slow, people drive terribly, this won’t work, and mafeesh fayda.
Will I start today? Naaah.
Today I already complained from traffic and work. (6)
Tomorrow isA.
Watch your thoughts because they will become actions.
Watch your actions because they will become habits.
Watch your habits because they will become personal traits.
Watch your personal traits because they will decide your destiny.
–A translated quote from someone’s email signature.
