ابتسم أنت في جربة

اليوم مشيت نفركس على دار بحذا البحر لزملاء يحبو يعدو جمعة في جربة. مشيت لأجونس وسط ميدون ياخي المازمزال للي تخدم غادي طابت 1300 دينار, جمعة بركة مش شهر. زعمة شنوة تسموه هذا؟ 

The great American poet, Sylvia Plath, once wrote the following: everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Love- children's style

1. "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint 
her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, 
even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8


2. When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You 
just know that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4


3. "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne 
and they go out and smell each other." Karl - age 5


4. "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French 
fries without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6


5. "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4


6. "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip 
before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." Danny - age 7


7. "Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of 
kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss" Emily - age 8


8. "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening 
presents and listen," Bobby - age 7


9. "If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend 
who you hate," Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on 
this planet)


10. "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears 
it everyday." Noelle - age 7

11. "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still 
friends even after they know each other so well." Tommy - age 6


12. "During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared.looked at 
all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was 
the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore." Cindy - age 8


13. "My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing 
me to sleep at night." Clare - age 6


14. "Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." Elaine - age 5


15. "Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is 
handsomer than Robert Redford." Chris - age 7


16. "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone 
all day." Mary Ann - age 4


17. "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old 
clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." Lauren - age 4


18. "When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars 
come out of you." (what an image) Karen - age 7


19. "You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you 
mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." Jessica - age 8


20. Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked
to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The 
winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly 
gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the 
little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and 
just sat there. When his Mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor,
the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

From: http://www.jokes2go.com/lists/list167.html

Adam and Eve

A very close friend of mine told me that Eve was the first to eat the forbidden apple but then she realized that she made a mistake and that her days in paradise would be over. She thought that she would be kicked out of heaven and that Adam would be there alone, to marry another woman. She, of course, became jealous and hated the idea that another woman might take her place. So, her decision was to trick Adam into making the same mistake and eat the forbiddem apple himself. Adam, out of love to her, was tempted and hence ate it. 

The story can be read differently of course, but this is my dear friend's reading of it. This is not a female-hate reading. My friend who told me the story is a female, just in case you need to know.

You see? Love versus guile and wiles!! 

Eve gaining her ends by guile and wiles, and Adam goes to his own fate out of love!! 

Which is more powerful? Guile and wiles? Or love?

All is about expectations

All is about expectations. I have to admit that one of my flaws is to place too high expectations on people. I tend to trust others, and some of those I trusted turned to be real asssholes!!!(excuse my language but I couldn' find a better word)

The problem is that I just don't want to do the opposite simply because, in my eyes, humans do count. The inner feelings that, by not trusting others, I might not do justice someone out there is something I simply cannot put up with. You may call this utter stupidity on my part but that's just the way it is, and I don't want to do otherwise.

I don't want to give examples because this relates to my life, to people who think themselves friends, people who roll up their eyes at your success, people who give you the measure-up test, people who think of you as stepping stones, people who find their own success in others' failure, people who take you for a fool simply because you are different, people who are unable to get things done without your help and then start finding faults with all you do so that they feel they are there alive and kicking!!!

I don't know if life is meant to be this way. All sucks!!! friendship sucks!!! The worth and value I have always put on people has been, much to my chagrin and disappointment, dwindling. Can anyone of you people out there explain to me why no one is really and truly happy about the success of friends and colleagues? Can anyone out there tell me why on earth a lousy 10 dollar note is more valued than frienship, is valued more than the smile you will never give to the person sitting next to you in the tube?? Can anyone out there give me a convincing answer as to why on earth are we afraid of, suspicious of others. Why on earth are some of the opinions we voice being taken personally??

I am bemoaning, I know!! I am not compalining!! I learnt not to, and I learnt it the hard way. I am not angry as some people may think. I AM PASSIONATE, and there is no wrong with being passionate.

All is about expectations!! May be because you might think I expect too much from people. Actually, I don't expect too much from people. I simply expect the BEST from people.

It's been stolen from me, for three years!! And now it's back!!

النفس تبكي

النفس تبكي على الدنيا وقد علمت * أن السعادة فيها ترك ما فيها
لا دار للمرء بعد الموت يسكنها * إلا التي كان قبل الموتِ بانيها
فإن بناها بالخير طاب مسكنه * وإن بناها بشر خاب بانيها

أموالنا لذوي الميراث نجمعها * ودورنا لخراب الدهر نبنيها
أين الملوك التي كانت مسلطنة * حتى سقاها بكأس الموت ساقيها
فكم مدائنِ في الافاق قد بنيت * أمست خراباً وأفنى الموت أهليها
لا تركنن الى الدنيا وما فيها * فالموت لا شك يُفنينا ويُفنيها

لكل نفس وان كان على وجل * من المنـِية امال تقويها
المرء يبسطها والدهر يقبضُها * والنفس تنشرها والموت يطويها

إنما المكارم أخلاق مطهرة * الدين أولها والعقل ثانيها
والعلم ثالثها والحلم رابعها * والجود خامسها والفضل سادسها
والبر سابعها والشكر ثامنها * والصبر تاسعها واللين باقيها

والنفس تعلم أني لا أصادقها * ولست أرشد إلا حين أعصيها

واعمل لدارٍ غداً رضوان خازنها * والجار أحمد والرحمن ناشيها
قصورها ذهب والمسك طينتها * والزعفران حشيش نابت فيها
أنهارها لبن محض ومن عسل * والخمر يجري رحيقاً في مجاريها
والطير تجري على الأغصان عاكفةً * تسبح الله جهراً في مغانيها
من يشتري الدار في الفردوس يعمرها * بركعة في ظلام الليل يحييها
 
شعر للإمام أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام