An overbearing concept: change is inevitable

To be happy in a chapter in my life was a great thing, but with it comes the pressure to find that happiness again when a new chapter begins. After college I cried and cried. I decided that I didn't want anything about my life to change and that I would never find the security of the place that I was being forced to leave. Luckily, most of my friends were feeling the same anxieties about starting over.

It is never good to cling to the past because the future, although daunting at times, is always waiting for you to one moment at a time. Friends come and go, you will change (believe it or not), but experiences last forever. Before you know it, another " open door" will be dangling in front of you. While you might approach it with the same curiosity, you will have less fear.


" This future never shows up because we are always at the present moment. We need to learn how to enjoy the moment just the way it is at this moment and now. It is what it is. Leave the life alone. Accept the moment the way it is and imagine this is exactly what your soul asked and designed it. This is exactly what you asked for. When we say accepting, that does not mean accept any wrong doing or malfunction in the life just the way it is. For example as driving if your car falls into a huge puddle and your are stuck, you would not say oh well I will accept it and will not take any action. At that time the acceptance means “No judgment”. Do not allow your mind to take charge to judge the incident. No thinking and judging whatsoever. Accept what happened totally. Then when there is no judgment, the right solution will come from within spontaneously. You don’t know how it came but our conscious will be in charge and show us the way rather than our imperfect chattering and judging mind. So just Accept then Take Action. Accept, Take Action. Accept, Take action."
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Poetry: none other than my beloved Rumi

My worst habit is I get so tired of winter
I become a torture to those I’m with.

If you’re not here, nothing grows.
I lack clarity. My words
tangle and knot up.

How to cure bad water? Send it back to the river.
How to cure bad habits? Send me back to you.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools,
dig a way out through the bottom
to the ocean. There is a secret medicine
given only to those who hurt so hard
they can’t hope.

The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back to you.

__________________________

Do you think I know what I am doing?
That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself?
As much as a pen knows what it’s writing,
or the ball can guess where its going next.

sunshine.

A long time ago, things got broken here. People got sad and left. Maybe the world breaks on purpose so we can have work to do."


“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -Albert Einstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjNVhoWqSWY&feature=player_embedded

Trouble:
"Here is a revolutionary practice everyone should try: Take a bill from your wallet, think of all the things you could buy and then calmly set it on fire. Smell the burning paper, pay attention to your emotions and meditate on where money goes when it is destroyed."

the lion doesn't attack the elephant, it attacks the baby zebra with a limp."

I am dedicating this post on sexual harassment… It’s been on my mind for to long to keep quite anymore. I’d just like to understand and maybe gather some opinions from others about this topic. So here it goes, is there a real problem in this beautiful city that I have fallen in love with regarding the harassment of women? Wait, let me answer that, damn right there is.

I love Cairo, but I am ashamed for Egypt and Egyptians at the treatment, especially verbal, that some women get here. I have not been here for to long, about 3 months, but I have already been a victim of this. I am an Arab American and I am somewhat fluent in Arabic so I can hear all the disgusting vulgarity, all the crudity, and all the ignorance if I am typical Arab looking and continue to get harassed I can only imagine how the tall, white blond girl must feel.

I am typical Arab looking; short, with long black hair, brown eyes and brown skin. I dress conservatively and walk with a determined stride, in fact people often tell me I’m on a mission, I walk with attitude, not to fast and not to slow. Why am I a victim?

I have not researched on women harassment in Egypt so I don’t have prior knowledge on its history and what the government has previously done to address this issue. But I find it ironic, if not entirely surprising, that obviously nothing serious has been done about the sexual harassment of women. Why is it that so little is done to address harassment? Egyptian woman are not speaking up and society at large aren’t acting because the police themselves are imposing these same sickening values.

I know there are many strategies a woman needs to consider doing; she must avoid walking alone, eye contact, walking to quickly, talking on her phone and etc. But even then I feel that it’s not enough. I feel outraged that women have to face treatment that’s so vile. I am disgusted because a female friend of mine has gotten sexually harassed in front of many people and not one single person was willing to help and jump in. What happened to community? What happened to brotherhood/sisterhood? What happened to Islam? These harassers would stake their all for their sisters and their mothers and if someone did that to their sisters/mothers, the guy would be dead. So why in god’s earth are these same harassers harassing other women?

Islam is not just about praying, fasting, and saying you believe in god. Islam is all about the way you treat people. It’s a way of life it teaches you how to deal with people and how to act. It’s part of Islam to not treat people in a way we wish not to be treated. They have abused Islam. I leave you with a couple questions, how did sexual harassment become so popular? What is the solution? And is there a “cure”?