Saturday, January 31, 2009

Words that Touched Me!

I'm Not Immune to Gloom

EVA
Time and time again I've said that I don't care
That I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through
and through
But every time it matters all my words desert me
So anyone can hurt me--and they do
So what happens now?

CHE
Another suitcase in another hall

EVA
So what happens now?


CHE
Take your picture off another wall

EVA
Where am I going to?

CHE
You'll get by you always have before

From Evita Movie

Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Day We Drifted Apart & After


Yes, the day we drifted apart
I felt pain, betrayal, anger, pity, and sorrow.

However,


After the day we drifted apart
I recognized that I can live without you

After the day we drifted apart
I realized that you are not the center of the world

After the day we drifted apart
I lifted a burden off my shoulders

After the day we drifted apart
I was able to put you in the right place

After the day we drifted apart
I became free of worrying about you getting me wrong

After the day we drifted apart
I found I have many other aspects of life

After the day we drifted apart
I saw life as a valuable gift

After the day we drifted apart
I discovered the world as a beautiful place

After the day we drifted apart
I felt the right to enjoy my life

After the day we drifted apart
I learnt how to love other people

After the day we drifted apart
I became a nicer person

After the day we drifted apart
I was able to love myself

After the day we drifted apart
I shined anew

Thank you for ALL the days AFTER the day we drifted apart


Written by me

I Love this Man



He loves me the way I’m

And so do I

He respects my difference

And so do I

He appreciates my mind

And so do I

He gives me my privacy

And so do I

He is here for me

And so do I

He knows I have a will

And so do I

He looks for continuity

And so do I

He believes in me

And so do I

He is proud of me

And so do I

He shares his feelings with me

And so do I

He shares his thoughts with me

And so do I

He cares deeply for me

And so do I

He believes I’m the only one for him

And so do I

He sees his children in me

And so do I

He sees his success in mine

And so do I

He understands how I feel and think

And so do I

He knows what bothers me and what not

And so do I

He knows what pleases me

And so do I

He deliberately pleases me

And so do I

A Man I’m looking forward to

Consider their Feelings and Don't Take them for Granted

When you take someone for granted, you may feel he/she is at your command any time. This may drive you to ignore or to distance yourself from him or her, or may be seek a different person. At this moment the person you took for granted starts wondering:
Am I no more important in his or her life.
Am I causing him or her a burden to care for, while he or she doesn't really care.
On the other side, you
may say:
I no more accept the ties I'm bounded by.
I may just go away.
I don't have to emotionally depend on this or that person.
I know that whenever I'd like to be back, I'll find this person at my command.
This usually happens between family members.

On reaching a certain age, adults may feel that they no more depend on their parents. They start seeking others like friends, husbands, wives or distance themselves by any other ways from their parents. They don't feel the pain digging inside the hearts of their parents. They may feel that their parents are obsessed by controlling their lives. This might be true to a certain extent.
Some parents give their children their freedom from an early age. However, once the parents feel their children are getting out of control, even when they reach an old age, they get hurt.
Children, on the other hand, see that their parents don't have the right to that pain and they are overreacting. But when the children become in their parents' shoes, they start feeling the same. Parents actually feel that their children are taking them for granted; doing whatever they want without caring for their parents' opinions, since they know that whatever happens their parents will never go away.

It is only when you live alone without any connection to your family, you start longing for their opinions. At this time, you may not be able to reach them. Then only, you will start feeling you shouldn't have taken your parents for granted. You start thinking back in the times when you let your parents down thinking they are overreacting.

The only way out then is to know that you will never be able to ignore your parents, since one day you will need them. You may seek their opinions even if you are decided on a certain thing. Think of these opinions objectively. Get rid of your arrogance. If not convinced, don't do it but show them that you considered their opinions and they mean much to you. Show them they are still part of your life and still have an effect on it. They deserve to feel that always, since they know that they are the most ones who cared much for you, helped you through all your ordeals, and still caring. They need to keep feeling so. If they lost this feeling, they get frustrated and feel that whatever they did was useless.

Consider their feeling and don't take them for granted.


Parents from their parts must from the very beginning understand that their children are like the birds; when they grow up they will leave their parents' nest. Hence, when you become a parent don't centralize your whole life on your children. Don't only give them some space but also give yourself some space away from them. Track for yourself another goal of life away from your children's lives. Let it be a work goal to assert yourself or even try to achieve a personal wish like traveling all over the world. Have something for yourself. It is not wise to live for your children and only your children. Some day they will be no more children just like you.

Friday, January 2, 2009

كلمات لمستني

صداقة القنافذ
الصداقة التي تشبه شيك على بياض... أو كارت بلانش... ليست صداقة بقدر ما هي خضوع وتسليم

الصداقة الكاملة هي التي تحتوي على قدر من هذه الخلافات الفاصلة الحافزة المنبهة المنشطة

الصديقان النموذجيان هما كزوج من القنافذ...يتعاطفان ويتعاونان ويتلازمان ويتقاربان...ولكن لا يذو
بان في بعضهما لأن كل واحد له درقة من الأشواك تحميه من أن يقتحم عليه الآخر خصوصيته وسريته وحدانية نفسه وقدسية استقلاله

أنا انظر إلى هذه الخلافات على إنها وليدة الشخصية الإنسانية...وعلى إنها طبيعية...ليست شرًا خالصًا وليست لعنةً خالصة
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