Posts

Ironic Life is the Right Life

Image
Saint Agapi (love in Greek) With each passing day, life brings uncertainty to our lives, small variations to our daily routine but also at times, major variations that change our lives forever.   With uncertainty comes risk. We always see these major risks as a shock, yet when we overcome these risks, we look back at them as if they were predictable and easily solvable, forgetting all the hard times we faced because of them.   We almost never take hard measures during normal times because they look stupid to people around us, yet if we do take hard measures in preparations for hard times, when hard times arrive and we are prepared (and thrive on them unlike others who mocked us), the ones who mocked us will forget that they thought of us as stupid but rather that they saw it coming (and convince themselves of the lie) and blame their unpreparedness on nature/others/life.   This is life, accept the fact above, and you shall survive and enjoy the occasional satisfaction fro
Post a Comment
Read more

Don’t Follow Your Instinct

Image
Head lost in the clouds Life is a maze. You can’t plan the whole thing in advance. I bet you can’t even plan the next step without a big chance of things going in another direction. Now this might irritate you, but it shouldn’t. If everything goes according to plan, then you won’t have the best outcome, you haven’t had it yet. Hence, religions' insistence on appreciating how things are going, for you still don’t know what’s in store.   It all sounds nice so far, but it’s hard to follow. I came to realize that the hardest thing one can do is to control one’s self, especially with all the noise surrounding us. To keep one’s discipline intact throughout the adversity. To embrace change as a habit. To go against one’s instinct when one should. I have been fighting my instinct lately, or to be more specific, in the last year let’s say. Let me tell you something, your instinct is highly correlated with your routine. And, I found out, you can’t live your life to the fullest sticking t
3 comments
Read more

Small Habits, Big World

Image
My favorite habit: coffee drinking and reading  Time moves but cycles repeat themselves. Only the small details change. But the large details don’t. And nature always prevail. Amid the hectic details of daily life. It’s hard to find peace of mind. Sometimes we just trust things will fix themselves on their own and we only have to believe so, because that’s essential to our survival.  However, we need to trigger the stop button every once in a while. I truly believe so. We need to stop ourselves and just fix things and move on. Because habits can make or break us.  In the past few months I have been focused on my habits in general. Pushing myself to acquire new habits and at the same time breaking old habits and stopping myself from getting into new tempting ones (because I have enough of them already).  Habits cloud our minds. We sometimes don’t know where we are going but we keep on going, because our habits keep pushing us, regardless of our conscious mind.  Juggling between small an
1 comment
Read more

Awesome Oud Solo - سولو عود من الاخر

Image
 Oud solo by Rakan Jreisat
4 comments
Read more

Human Rights: and Why Some People Don't Deserve Them

Image
  An excerpt from an Israeli Official’s thoughts In every amazing country in the history of the world, none, of course, are as exceptional as Israel, but there are always class systems. It is just the natural order of humankind. You can have first-class citizens, second class citizens, non-citizens and the list goes down and down until you reach the worst species of all, the Palestinians. Imagine this: you invade a small country at some point in time, being backed by a world power, and its people choose to fight back. They even dare tell you not to take their “Most basic human rights”. On what planet does everyone deserve equal rights? Many of them are already even poor. They don’t deserve the amazing piece of land they live on, and as if this is not already bad enough, they choose violence. We point guns at them, we even shoot at them only most of the times, yet they call us aggressors. Now that I mentioned aggression, in what world does an eight-year-old child throwing rocks at a
4 comments
Read more