(The Oneness of Life) Mark Bittner's story of Tupelo

Lessons Taught by the Egyptian Youth

 * Pessimism is the greatest sin one can commit against oneself and against the world.

* Everything is imperfect in a way or another. But time perfects what is imperfect. Thus, everything is perfect in its imperfection!

* People lose the child within themselves when they lose the ability to dream.

* In their revolution, Egyptians taught the world that pure laughter is the weapon that stands in the face of any enemy and any fear.

* Hope is the nourishment of the oppressed and the water for the free.

* Freedom is the primary motive of life and the ultimate and smartest inducer of innovation.

* Despair is what blows out the flame of freedom, for despair is the only enemy of life and man, and it is the reason behind the dominance of injustice and the existence of poverty.

* Ahmed Fouad Nejm, the great Egyptian poet, said that the Egyptian youth taught the older generation that the main purpose of a revolution is living for freedom, not dying for it.

* Egyptian youth have proven to the whole world that achieving the popular will and self-determination is possible.

* One only needs to be human to be in favor of freedom.

* There is no single historical period that is more important than other periods. Each historical period contributes to the chain of the human history. However, there are historical periods that are more interesting than others ones, where people find themselves reassessing and reconsidering earlier historical periods, and redefining themselves according to this new historical interpretation.

When Humans Fail to Appreciate Beauty..

A lemon tree can only be a threat to those who know deep in their hearts that they don't own the land in which it grows !
When humans fail to appreciate beauty, they act inhumanly !
They may decide to build a wall to protect them from a lemon tree, but they eventually find themselves besieged by it ! Those on the other side of the wall can never be besieged , for the lemon's shade draws them a horizon of sunlight and dreams !

Lessons Learned from the Unrest in the Middle East

* Once people are free of fear, they are free of oppression.




* Those who wait to be given their rights never get them. Those who decide to remain silent and expect others to notice them, are the ones who die silently with no one knowing that they actually existed.




* Tunisians recalled Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi’s poem: 


If, one day, a people desires to live, then fate will answer their call.

And their night will then begin to fade, and their chains break and fall.

For he who is not embraced by a passion for life will dissipate into thin air,

At least that is what all creation has told me, and what its hidden spirits declare...

(Translated by Elliott Colla.)

And they broke the chains of their fear and revolted. Egyptians recalled  Mohamd Younis AlQadi's words and Sayed Darwish's melody :

Egypt! Most precious gem,
A blaze on the brow of eternity!
O my homeland, be for ever free,
Safe from every enemy!

My homeland, my homeland, my homeland,
My love and my heart are for thee.

They chanted Salah Jaheen's words sung by Oum Kalthoum :

The people advance like the light,
The people stand like mountains and seas,
Angry volcanoes, erupting volcanoes,
Earthquakes digging graves for the enemy.

And their volcano of anger exploded.Bahrainis recalled Qassim Haddad's words :

O fire o queen of time
Where shall I hide you,
while the dry stalk is the ruler of this place?

( translated by Frangieh)

and they embraced the spirit of fire and covered the streets with waves of voices calling for freedom. Libyans adopted Omar Mokhtar's lion-hearted rebellion and his words : 

"I believe in my right of freedom and my right of life, and this faith is stronger than any weapon. When one fights to rape and plunder,he may stop  fighting when his pockets are  filled up or  when he is exhausted, but when one fights for his country , he goes on in his war to the  end.
Injustice makes the oppressed  a hero , while one's heart who commit crime  must be  trembling  no matter who tried to demonstrate pride."

*Who said that words, arts and true leadership is not what inspires people and revolutionizes their spirit? The People who can't be inspired by their history, will not be able to create their future.And those who are cut off their roots, cannot maintain the greenness of their present , and cannot see the flowers of their future blooming..

To be continued..

"Have you seen my Childhood?"

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for the world that I come from
'Cause I've been looking around
In the lost and found of my heart...
No one understands me
They view it as such strange eccentricities...
'Cause I keep kidding around
Like a child, but pardon me...

People say I'm not okay
'Cause I love such elementary things...
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood
I've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like pirates in adventurous dreams,
Of conquest and kings on the throne...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me,
Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my Childhood?

People say I'm strange that way
'Cause I love such elementary things,
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood I've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like fantastical stories to share
The dreams I would dare, watch me fly...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me.
The painful youth I've had

Have you seen my Childhood....

What makes a human being , a human being ?

Why do humans need to be acknowledged as human beings ? Does immortality make sense in our human world? Is mortality what makes life valuable and meaningful ? Is it the destiny of all creative individuals to feel alienated and live, like Andrew, on the edge of the human world and the robot world ? Is that why we need death to be the resolution and the comfort of that alienation and confusion ? Aren't all humans in a big part stimulus response to whatever programmed in their brains and stored in their memories ? Haven't humans developed through ages and became more complex with time ? What makes us more unique than robots then ?

The Worst Form of Lonliness !

7 Reasons 21st Century Making You Miserable

"The more we're able to edit the annoyance out of our lives, the less we're able to handle it."
This is how I've been feeling recently because of that fact that I make sure that I do not get exposed to any source of annoyance. It makes me almost powerless when I'm in a noisy place because my head is so used to quietness that it  can't bear noise anymore !

"The problem is that peacefully dealing with incompatible people is crucial to living in a society. In fact, if you think about it, peacefully dealing with people you can't stand is society."

If we had a chance to pick the society we want to be in , we'd probably choose to be living among people who are similar to us . And living among homogeneous groups is more like living isolated because living alone can't give us the chance of having new experiences in real life.