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The Great Unknown

every day I wake up and look outside the patio... I see.. I feel... I comprehend the changes happening around me... I read the news... and though I understand what I am reading... none of it makes sense... the actions people take... the hypocrisy involved... the pursuit of self interest.... maybe I am just too detached from reality I would understand why i feel so helpless.... I look and I see the past.. the present and the future... not by means of clairvoyance.... but by means of analysis and understanding of patterns and events..... it surprises me that I am one of few who see and recognise these patterns.. but then again this is the cures of being a dyslexic.. to always have the capacity to see.. hear.. sense and understand things that others cannot..... this is not arrogance.... because I would be hard pressed to admit that there is much that others see.. hear.. sense and understand that I may never do.... even if i experience these events from their own perspective.... in any eve...

Why I left Lebanon...?

This should be a simple enough question to answer… right? Not at all… it is never easy answering a question like that… why does anyone abandon his home? Not for fun that’s for certain… I love Lebanon. I always have. It’s where I grew up… it’s where I was born. But love is not enough…. Even in relationships... Love is usually not enough… in any relationship there is a degree of sacrifice one must take in to account... you give up certain liberties or a way of life or you no longer make decisions without consulting your partner… whichever way you look at it, entering a relationship means that one has to sacrifice something in order for that relationship to work. Any relationship demands that… the ideal relationship is when both parties sacrifice something, within reason, equally. Problems start to arise when there is a sever misbalance in what one sacrifices... if one of the pair is sacrificing far too much to the degree that the person starts becoming something he or she is not or ra...