Rania

“كل الحاجات بتفكرني
بعيون حيرتها تحيرني
والذكرى مش بتصبرني
تمر صورتك اتبسم
الابتسامه تعذبني
كل الحاجات حواليا تدور
زي الحيطان بتداري النور
وقلبي من بعد الطيران
ما حيلته الا جناح مكسور
دلوقتي مهما اقول الآه
وانت بعيد مين يسمعني



كل الحاجات الا عيونك ممكن انسى
كل الحاجات من حواليا عارفة وحاسة
ضاع الونس يا قمر غايب
بعدك ماليش اي حبايب
دلوقتي حتى بخاف حزني يبعد عني
كل الحاجات كانت تضحك لما اقابلك
لا عرفت نفسي من قبلك ولا من بعدك
قبلك ماكانليش ولا حاجة
بعدك سنيني محتاجه
ياريت تشوف دمعه صوتي لما أغني”
― عبدالرحمن الأبنودي

“Once let down, I never fully recovered. I could never forget, and the break never mended. Like a glass vase that you place on the edge of a table, once broken, the pieces never quite fit again. However the problem wasn’t with the vase, or even that the vases kept breaking. The problem was that I kept putting them on the edge of tables. Through my attachments, I was dependent on my relationships to fulfill my needs. I allowed those relationships to define my happiness or my sadness, my fulfillment or my emptiness, my security, and even my self-worth. And so, like the vase placed where it will inevitably fall, through those dependencies I set myself up for disappointment. I set myself up to be broken. And that’s exactly what I found: one disappointment, one break after another. Yet the people who broke me were not to blame any more than gravity can be blamed for breaking the vase. We can’t blame the laws of physics when a twig snaps because we leaned on it for support. The twig was never created to carry us. Our weight was only meant to be carried by God. We are told in the Qur’an: "…whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And God hears and knows all things." (Qur’an, 2: 256) There is a crucial lesson in this verse: that there is only one hand-hold that never breaks. There is only one place where we can lay our dependencies. There is only one relationship that should define our self-worth and only one source from which to seek our ultimate happiness, fulfillment, and security. That place is God. However,”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal insights on breaking free from life's shackles

“The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.”
― Ahmed Khaled Towfik, يوتوبيا

“Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life