“Safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.” How can we define the sense of safety and security? Dictionaries explain the words but do we practically comprehend the concept compared to other feelings that we experience in our lives? Did we ever render safety as a great blessing?! To be safe is to worry about nothing; to lay down
I haven’t changed, and I won’t change. This is my firm decision that I've made in my life.
I'm still the same person I've always been...
I still believe in love, happiness, and goodness...
However, I’ve learned to be more realistic... I've learned to protect myself from pain, to be more
In my recollection, I don’t remember the years of my life being smooth. They never were. Many doors remained shut, access was difficult, patience was stretched thin, and the end goals often seemed or still seem distant. Isn’t that the case for everyone's life?
Indeed, my friend, without the slightest doubt, it is!
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Do you know "Fahim the tailor"? Of course not. Nobody around him knows this name even though it's his official name on documents. But when you mention "Wad Jeddah", distances and explanatory phrases become succinct. This title, which once was a mark of mockery and bullying, became unique to him.
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Contemplating the title of poet Mohammed Hisham's first anthology, "Then Water Did Not Come to Us," one promptly realizes that there's an implied context which the poet chose not to disclose, leaving it up to the readers of the collection to infer. What transpired before the word "then"?
Certainly, an event
