Pessimism..

last Saturday i were at Diwan Heliopolis  in the upstairs cafe and i over heard the following conversation between A girl in her 20's sitting with 3 guys in their early 20s

they were discussing some business or group of a sort..
I'm a couple of meters away from them so it is -as always- easy to eavesdrop. Apparently the girl represents some company that recruits salespeople who work from home and get paid only on commission based on performance by end of year, etc..
Something that sounds too fishy and slightly too good to be true..
For some reason, she is only addressing one of the guys.
The other two seem like they are the guy's friends, but also like they are already in the girl's team somehow.

The guy -as all guys do- is trying to act 'fetek'. Like he is asking all the "right" questions, and what if this, and what if that, and what guarantees, etc. But it also seems he's game..

So in the middle of it all, I hear a sentence that was going to make me laugh out loud.

Girl: so, f aswa2 el zoroof, you will have 10 contacts.

Guy: tayeb, howa fee aswa2 men aswa2 el zoroof?

Girl: Enta motasha2em bardo?

I thought they called it aswa2 el zoroof for a reason..

a quote from today

It is easy to be a hater.
Go for the difficult task: be a lover

Paper Dreams escaping Surreality

stolen thoughts

"The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belong to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity."

~ Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

a quote from today

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” — Dr. Seuss

al bo7tory says

أُلامُ على هواكِ وليس عدلاً إذا أحببْتُ مثلَكِ أنْ أُلامَا

a thought from today

the following question came a cross my mind today:
Am i living my life out of fear or out of love?

in my own prospective When we make decisions based on love, we live a life of purpose and life flows in a harmonious manner, bringing many rewards.
Making decisions based on fear brings resistance to the flow of life, ultimately bringing disharmony and unhappiness yet its some how safer, with no risks.!!

al motanaby says

فليتَ هوى الأحبة كان عدلاً فحمّلَ كلَّ قلبٍ ما أطاقا

The Castle in the Pyrenees

"Can we make a solemn promise to delete every email we send each other after we've read them? I mean straight away, right then and there, and that naturally means no printouts either....We will step outside time, leave what we call ‘reality’."

~ Jostein Gaarder, The Castle in the Pyrenees


For Steinn and Solrun, the Internet is their reconnection, the means by which they rekindle what was lost so long ago. This is probably the seventh novel I read for Gaarder, and I am again captivated by his storytelling, by his views on the universe, our footprint on the planet, and definitely on love. I get lost inside the stories within stories. I am still in the beginning, but I know it already got to me.

and then she tells him (referring to the painting above):
" But perhaps you're blind. Perhaps you're both narrow-minded and short-sighted.
Do you remember that Magritte picture of a huge lump of rock floating above the ground? I think it had a small castle on top. You can't have forgotten that picture.
But if you'd witnessed something similar today, you would certainly have tried to explain it away. Maybe you'd have said it was a trick. That the rock was hollow and filled with helium. Or that it was supported by an ingenious network of invisibly pulleys and wires.
I'm a much simpler soul. I would probably just have raised my arms to the boulder and sung out my 'hallelujah' or my 'amen'."

...and thus speaks the emotional to the rational. They are lovers who were separated by space and time, meeting again -by coincidence or some universal masterplan- after 30 years. Trying to understand each other, trying to understand what drove them apart.

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"It's strange to think about now. That was before I believed in anything. But only just before."

prayer from today

الهي ان اعطيتني قبلت وان منعتني رضيت وان تركتني دعوت وان دعوتني اجبت فاعطني الهي ما اريد فان لم تعطني ما اريد فارزقني القناعه بم تريد

one of my weird philosophies of life

It hurts,
and you've been avoiding it,hoping it gets better,
but it just doesn't!
Pain won't go away on its own, right?
A new approach is if it hurts, beat it harder,
you'll either faint and loose consciousness or develop immunity, either way, it won't hurt!

a quote from today

"If you're brave to say 'good bye', life will reward you with a new 'hello'" ~ Paulo Coelo

a thought from today

What's ironic about knowing what you want is that you don't usually get it. Come on, you can't expect life to let you know it AND to get it as well!

a thought from today

Sometimes all i need is only to wake up from reality and rest on a cloud for a period of time