A step towards some change

I am a very simple egyptian girl, who is not satisfied somehow with her society and feels like this specific society deserves more than it gets, and can be the best with little more effort and much more frankness and persistance. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."(Maya Angelou)

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Location: Cairo, Egypt

Sunday, January 13, 2008

EXTREME DISAPPOINTMENT

I FEEL SO DISAPPOINTED WHEN I REALIZE THAT ALL OUR YOUTH ARE AUTOMATICALLY PROGRAMMED ON TRAVELING ABROAD JUST TO GET AWAY FROM THIS COUNTRY. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER U CAN'T GET RID OF UR NATIONALITY U WILL ALWAYS BE THE FOREIGNER IN THAT OTHER COUNTRY. U WILL NOT HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS THE LOCAL CIVILIANS HAVE. BUT THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM, THE BIGGER PROBLEM IS THAT WE ARE RUNNING FROM OUR RESPONSIBILITIES OUR RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARDS OUR COUNTRY. AND IF SOMEONE SAYS THIS COUNTRY DIDN'T GIVE ME ANYTHING THEY ARE LIARS BECAUSE IT'S ENOUGH IT HAS GIVEN U A PLACE TO LIVE IN AND ANOTHER PLACE TO BE EDUCATED IN. THIS COUNTRY IS DETERIORATING I'M NOT DENYING THIS BUT ARE WE JUST GOING TO WATCH IT FALL DOWN WATCH ALL OUR ANCESTORS HARD WORK JUST "GONE WITH THE WIND" IF WE ARE NOT ABLE TO DO LIKE THEM THEN AT LEAST TRY TO KEEP IT SAFE. OUR RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS THAT DETERIORATING COUNTRY IS TRY TO CHANGE AND PROTECT IT FROM DEATH. BECAUSE IF EVERYONE JUST LEAVE THE COUNTRY WHAT WOULD BE LEFT IN HERE !!!!!!!! JUST WEAK, OLD , KIDS, POOR OR EXTREMELY RICH PEOPLE DO U THINK THIS IS GOING ANYWHERE OTHERWISE THAN "DOWN"
WE ARE THE ONE WHO are ABLE TO KEEP THE MIDDLE CLASS WE ARE THE FUTURE. I AM SORRY IF ANY BODY'S MOTHER WAS UNABLE TO RAISE THEM TO BE GREAT IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY TO BE LEADERS AND REFORMERS OF THEIR GENERATION. ITS NOT THEIR FAULT HOW THEY WERE RAISED BUT ITS THEIR FAULT THAT THEY ACCEPTED HOW THEY TURNED TO BE SO PASSIVE AND CHICKENS. JUST RUNNING AWAY FROM UR DESTINIES TO PAY BACK TO UR COUNTRY.
I GUESS IF SOMEONE THINKS ABOUT THEIR COUNTRIES AS A MOTHER OR A SISTER THEY WOULDN'T EVER TRY TO ABANDON IT. IF UR MOTHER WAS REALLY ILL WOULD U JUST LEAVE HER AND RUN AWAY, LEAVE HER TO DIE!! IF UR SISTER TURNED OUT TO BE BAD GIRL WOULD U LEAVE HER AND SURRENDER OR WOULD U TRY TO HELP HER AND REFORM HER TO BE BETTER PERSON. COME ON ITS THE SAME WITH UR COUNTRY GUYS. I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS ON A GUY TO FIND A GOOD JOB AND SETTLE AND START A FAMILY, HOWEVER ITS NOT IMPOSSIBLE. ALL GUYS JUST ARE LOOKING FOR THE EASY OPPORTUNITY, THE QUICK DOLLAR. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO MOVE FORWARD ITS JUST A WAY TO "LIVE".
IF U REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW BITTER IT IS TO GIVE AWAY UR LIFE HARD WORK JUST SO EASILY, TRY TO WORK SO HARD ON SOMETHING FOR SO LONG WOULD IT BE EASY FOR U TO SIMPLY THROW IT IN THE GARBAGE OR EVEN GIVE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE. THIS IS WAT WE'RE DOING TO OUR YOUTH, EVERY MOTHER IS GIVING AWAY HER SONS TO TRAVEL AND WITH THEM ALL HER SACRIFICES, DAYS OF PAIN AND AGONY AND STAYING LATE AT NIGHT TO WATCH OUT HER KIDS WHEN THEY ARE SICK, SO SIMPLY AND EASILY IN A MOMENT IMAGINING THAT THIS IS BETTER FOR HIM AND HIS FUTURE , I'M SORRY BUT SHE IS JUST A LOSER TO DO SO BECAUSE SHE SPENT ALL THOSE YEARS FOR HER KIDS SO ONE DAY THEY WOULD LOOK AFTER HER NOT ABANDON HER LEAVING HER WITH A FANTASY TO SEE THEM ONCE A YEAR. TRY TO ASK AN OLD FATHER WHO IS SO PROUD TO ASK HIS SON NOT TO TRAVEL AND STAY BY HIS SIDE FOR HIS LEFT DAYS ALIVE. TRY TO IMAGINE HOW MUCH THEY ARE SUFFERING GIVING UP ALL THEIR LIVES AWAY TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, HOW ABOUT UR OWN COUNTRY.
THE REALLY IRONIC ABOUT THAT IS A SINGLE COMMENT I HEARD FORM ONE GUY WAS THAT "
HE CAN'T WALK DOWN THE STREET HOLDING HANDS WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND WITHOUT HEARING COMMENTS THAT PROVOKES HIM..!!" OR THAT HE WENT TO AN ARABIC GULF COUNTRY AND SAW "A GUY KISSING A GIRL IN THE STREET AND NOBODY COMMENTED ALL PEOPLE WERE PASSING BY WITHOUT ANY ACTION..!!!" AND THESE TWO EXAMPLES WERE ACTUALLY TO CLARIFY "HIS POINT OF VIEW". WAT DO U THINK WE ARE SO "SATURATED" WITH FOREIGN CULTURE, HOWEVER THE BAD STINKY HABITS WHICH JUST SHOWS HOW SILLY WE ARE TURNING TO BE!!
ANOTHER ANGLE WHICH NOBODY THOUGHT ABOUT IS THAT HOW MUCH TRAVELING WOULD CHANGE PERSONALITY AND APART FAMILIES AWAY AND FRIENDS AND BRING OUT EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED KIDS FOR MISSING THEIR FATHERS/MOTHERS OR EVEN BOTH.
EVEN PROPHET MOHAMED (PBUH) LOVE MEKKA SO MUCH THAT WHEN HE WAS ORDERED TO TRAVEL TO MEDINA HE KEPT HIS HEART LOOKING TO GO BACK TO MEKKA AND HOW HAPPY HE WAS WHEN GOD ORDERED HIM TO GO TO MEKKA AND HOW HIS LOVE TO THE PLACE MADE HIS SO MERCIFUL TO ITS PEOPLE. OUR YOUTH UNFORTUNATELY WERE NOT RAISED TO LOVE THIS COUNTRY ... SO PITIFUL ...

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ok emma i am with u that leaving my country is not that good and not all of us guys want to do so but realy try to but ur self in a new graduated guy's shoes try to see what he sees and feel what he feels and how many responsibilties he carry on his shoulder ... and then look to what this country offers to him ...... i am not saying that the country didnt do any thing for me that is completely wrong .... but what after education and living with my family i have to start my own life it is how it goes.... of cource i am not going to forget my family or neglect my country ...of cource not ....but it is time to start my own life and family..... just do the math and u will find how difficult it is .... so when u ask a guy or a youth as u like to call them.....and i dont mean by that the guy that was kissing the girl in the street no i am talking about a guy who is trying to find his soul mate and live with her his whole life together under the same shilter or roof where he can kiss her as much as he can without being worry about any thing ..... not the guy that wants to leave his country to use the other country culture in the wrong way .... no ask the guy who wants to travel because he didnt find his chance in his own country .... dont ask someone who can so easly travel to any place he want because he was born with the golden spoon in his mouth....no ask the guy who is searching for awooden one and he cant even find it ........ just ask them this question in its simple shape...what if u find the appourtunity to have a better life in onother country but only in the finantial way..would u take it?.....yah that is the right qustion ...... and wait for the answer ..... and do u know what is the funny part .... both guys will say yes ... but i dont have to tell u what they r thinking about this apportunity....one is comparing between the responsibilties he must carry in his own country with the unlimted freedom that he will gain ...and the other is comparing between between the responsibilties that he is going to carry beside the once that he is already carring and the person he will be there in that other country...see it is copmletely opposite thinking but they both ends by the same answer...so dont be sorry for the youth or the mother that is leaving her child to face his disteny in the world no be sorry about the country that is turning away every single geniuse and every one that is trying to use his mind in the right way....dont be sorry because the youth r forgeting their responsibilities....just be sorry that they cant find away to solve there problems because simply they live in this country .... i am done here and this is a comment from a guy that once tried to do somthing.....and he keeps trying

10:18 AM  
Blogger Caring Friend said...

i know and believe that traveling abroad is able to turn the person's personality upside down he will be totally comparing between the two countries and how life is and salaries and materialistic stuff.
its like drugs, if someone tries it they will be changed completely and so will their lives and it will be hard for them to stop it and they will suffer the side-effects.
what i am against is leaving the opportunity and materialism take over ur life and direct u.money shouldn't be the center of our lives, we shouldn't be living to make money thats how traveling turns u to be a money slave

1:29 PM  

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