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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

 Oud solo by Rakan Jreisat

  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