Category: daily prompt

Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.

Actually, there isn’t more than simple household chores that I can  boast about in this Do It Yourself job. Things like putting up shelves, changing light bulbs, using wood glue to fix a broken broken drawer or chair, unblocking drains, and the like, are, honestly, my most ambitious DIY projects.

How I wish a compulsory DIY module was included in primary and secondary school education! It’s a lifetime skill that all need.  I think you’d be blessed if you have some Jack-of-all- trades around, even more blessed if s/he is a member of the family or even a neighbour. They will alawys save your day. 

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

Can there be any living creature on this earth who has not failed at something at least once? Of course not! We’re humans. We’ have to try, to make mistakes, and to learn. Our life is all about trying again and again. Try different things. Find new routes. And follow your heart. No one can be perfect in everything. So we have to be sometimes unable to achieve certain things.

But, how strong and awful the word Fail is! It’s like a slap on the face.

Honestly, why don’t we use unsuccessful, for at least part of the negative announcement  have the possitive word success.

By the way, in arabic culture, in most cases, people would say God hasn’t granted you that this time, but perhaps another time, so try gain. Wouldn’t things feel much better this way?

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?

To keep on living and  be youself in this world with all its changes, its lies, its actors will always be a big challenge not only over the next six months, but throughout your entire life. That’s hard, but not  impossible as long as you have Faith. In other words, “To be Alone, but not lonely!”

However, and to talk more specific, since we will relocate to a different city within six month, I find it a bit challenging to cope with my daily routine. With too many things to arrange, pack, discard, clean, …. the list is too long, but I will do my best to keep on my daily reading, writing, and exercising.

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

My dear young me,

How incredible to write to you; my younger self, my teenage self. I wonder why that idea has never crossed my mind, but I’m so delighted it did today!

Right now I”m pretty sure we both should have our hands full in our two age distant worlds. You with your studies and friends and me with my household chores and news. Therefore, this letter will be brief, just to give you, my dear me, one or two pieces of advice. But, perhaps on another day I will share some funny memories about our life; past and present, for only God knows the future.

First my dear me, Read. Read and you will learn. Read and you will improve yourself. Read and you will laugh and cry. Read and you will live in different cites, villages, countries … . Read and you will meet with people, you might never see the like in your life.

You know whoever said; a reader lives a thousand lives, was so right. So please read from now on. Don’t waste you time watching movies or reading commerial magazines. Reading is much more fun than other things.

Second my dear me. Don”t ever worry. You know, out of experiece,  what you fear, in most cases, won’t happen.

Last but not least my dear me, don’t watch the news for, in most cases, they are telling lies; not little white lies,  but dark misleading ones.

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

Look around either at work, school, university … Why, Just watch the news to see who’s not merely  breaking the laws but violating them with full intention and cold blood, and  perhaps “unintentionally”.

By the way,  I am a law abiding citizen. Praise be to God!

If there was a biography about you, what would the title be?

Looking back at my life, I can’t help feeling grateful and content. My education, my family, my move to a foreign country, my acquaintance with different people. At some point in my life I had other dreams. Things I wanted so much, and cried deeply for them, but they were not for me. That’s God’s plan and its always the best.