Life Out Loud
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Dust In The Wind
Thursday, May 12, 2011
نظرية الأي كلام
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Maybe the world won't end tomorrow
Back when I was in prep school, a teacher in one of the classes was talking about how life will be at the end of days, I remember her saying that she didn’t want to be alive when it’s time for the world to end. At a certain part of her stories, a sudden earthquake-like vibration shook the entire school* and all the girls in the class screamed at the top of their lungs. That was a real non-staged demonstration of how we –as youngsters- fear death; and I think that’s why this memory is still hanging around in my head after all these years.
Now, I think I would disagree with my dear teacher … I would want to stick around till the end of a system that existed for a number of billions of years, that has been the host of millions of known and unknown species and organisms...I want to witness the inevitable. You may think it would be the ultimate suffering but I think three years of army service would teach you how to survive those presumably tough days :D.
*It turned out that they were using one of those big hammering machines to extend new underground power or phone lines in the neighborhood.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Running
Sunday, August 15, 2010
All But One

“Lose hope and you lose everything” … isn’t that what they say?
In real life, falling without a safety net to break your fall could be just as lethal as it is in circus. The social safety net could be anything from money to a small place in the middle of nowhere that you run to; to be alone with your thoughts, but mostly it is family and friends that form that refuge for us.
It's only that some events in life may be big enough to shake your whole belief system or to leave a scar in memory or a small fracture in the heart. That’s when time stops, and minutes turn into hours and hours into days, until that clock on the wall seems dead … an infinite loop that could drain every bit of remaining hope in you, and leave you lost in time indefinitely, unless you get yourself back together and take the lead once again.
Personally, I’ve been running risks ever since I was a little boy, shaping perspective with every situation, always learning my lessons because “Qui ne risque rien n’a rien ” or in plain English “No risk, no gain”. I just never thought my luck could fail me in such a critical time of my life. I know it was bound to happen, it’s just that the strike came when it was least expected…Though this lesson was a very late one, it is definitely a lesson learned: Not every tale is a fairy tale.
But time heals, or so I hope... and after all, what is life without challenges :)


