what's in a photo

It was a photo I saw at a friends house AGES ago.. it was black and white and simply beautiful.. I could look at it for hours and it just made me happy..

The two faces in the photo were hidden, it seemed to me like they were laughing so hard that they hid their faces unintentionally as the camera snapped that gorgeous moment! I loved it...

I had so many questions about the two in the photo which my friend simply answered with a smile.. I didn't pay much attention I was too involved in the moment..

6 months later.. I get a package.. there was a note on the top saying:
'I remember how it made you smile, I want you to have it'

I was so happy that she gave it to me.. I found the perfect place to put it up in my room.. a hidden spot just like the faces in the photo..

something was off.. I changed the position more than once.. But there was something different about it when I looked at it this time..

Day by day, the hidden faces just kept bothering me more and more.. I could almost see the tears on them rather than the laughs I thought I saw..

Today, I took it down.. It's just too sad for me to look at! I couldn't bare it anymore..

When you be One Hundred...

This was a conversation between my 5 and a half year old nephew and his Mum

Child: Mummy, when you be one hundred will you still have your telephone with you?

Mum: ummmm, yes, I'm sure I will

Child: will Baba have his phone with him?!

Mum: yes yes, I'm sure he will, why do you ask?

Child: because I want you to ask God if you can call me when your in heaven


Children say the strangest things...

i vote for ANARCHY!!

I am not for your revolution
nor can I stand aside
and let the world pass me by
and watch it from behind

I am not for your NOISE pollution
your murmurs and your cries
you speak of vice and fraud as well
and many many lies

I CANnot throw it all away
I cannot let it be
nor do I want to follow you
I want to follow ME

You speak of change no you DEMAND
yet all you do is talk
who is it then that you believe
will have to walk the walk?!

I am not FOR your revolution
I cannot STAND your noise pollution
the change that you demand

Wake up my friends and face the world
just do it hand in hand

Or better yet go back to BED
and dream of better days
change may come, one day, that is
long after you've been dead



*someone is in a good mood today.....

Happy Ramadan

Hope you all have a great Ramadan wa kol 3aam wa antom b5air :)

Me, Myself and I

I dream of a day yet to come where i will be truly me.. the way i see myself deep down inside.. the way i truly am..

I dream of a day yet to come where i will be wisely sanguine.. not naive nore pesimistic.. the way i truly should be..

I dream of a day yet to come where i will be finally brave.. to face the truth to face myself.. the way i was taught to be..




I am very confused, i don't have time to be confused, the world is passing me by and I am still having second thoughts about EVERYTHING...



I still have faith in tomorrow

what determins the division of happiness?

so i was at a coffee shop today with some friends and we were laughing really hard at a joke one of them said.. u know when u laugh so much u cry?!! it was actually exhausting.. anyhow, we were enjoying ourselves when one of my friends suddenly said "allah yikfeena shar i'6i7k" as in -may God prevent the evils after laughter- well not literally, but that's the best i can do!!

basically, this is some sort of superstition we have in Saudi (not quite sure of it's presence anywhere else). but many people believe that if you laugh too much in the day u will end up in tears by the fall of night, so they pray to God to keep them safe from the evils that come after laughter

note: this superstition is not religious in any way

so i thought about this for a moment and asked my friend why she would actually believe she wasn't allowed to laugh too much or else she would be punished?!! i personally feel that if you believe u deserve to be happy, i mean truly believe, u will be!! i think we should try to adopt a very positive attitude towards life..


another one of our friends had an interesting point of view.. he was saying that he believes that everyone gets their fair share of happiness and misery.. eventually all the sadness u felt in your life will be balanced out by the happiness..

it's funny how all of a sudden, everything went serious and u got a pessimistic, positive and realistic attitude towards happiness..

after that discussion, i decided that i shall not fear happiness, i shall not expect it, nor shall i believe in the equilibrium.. i have decided not to take life too seriously and stop discussing gifts from God such as happiness and just be thankful for them..

The End

:)

the day was perfect

she felt great

she looked great

the song on her ipod was exactly right for the mood

it never happened.....

today was not the day

she didn't really care

she was tired and hungry

no expectations

it happened :)