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Browsing

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Where would you go on a shopping spree?

The first thing that crossed my mind when i read “shopping” is to browse.

It’s fun to browse through things in a store or online, and it’s really beneficial since, in most cases,  you’ll end up buying nothing. To be browser can help in many ways;  first to satisfy your passion for shopping. second to economise, and third to brighten your mood. You can add more to these advantages if you like. However, sometimes, a browser turns into a buyer, a greedy one, and that’s when you fall into the trap of trying things especially for free or when you’re merely copying others.

I’m doing my best to work on this go only browsing strategy when I don’t really need to buy things.

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

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Fictional characters

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What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

In stories, the name of every character is carefully picked according to things related to the role, the image, the place, the time …. they are representing.  Sometimes, we as readers overlooked this issue. We read and follow the sequence of the events and the development of the plot. But, I have learnt that writers do pay careful attention and time to the names of each character and they usually have a certain  significance.

In real life our names also have a significance, a meaning that in some cases match our own personalities. In arabic culture, people say  everyone has some share of the meaning of his/ her name.

That’s why I find it a bit confusing to have a middle name as the person, in most cases, will be called and known by just one. The other name will be left aside and known mainly in official documents.

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

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A proverb

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What is the last thing you learned?

No one is a prophet is his own land!

It is not that I don’t know the meaning of it but when my eyes fell on this proverb in one of the books, it was the beauty of the wording and the accuracy of its meaning hat I’ve recently come to learn.

By the way there this proverb has an equalivat in Arabic. It says; The light falls only on the strangers.

In both versions, the meaning is the same.

Haven’t you ever felt that you are more appreciated and honored elsewhere than in your commonplace?

I did.

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

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No, not that!

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What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

Honestly,  it is not how old are you? Because 23 + is the simplest and more convient answer unless you’re been asked for specific reasons  Besides that won’t be a lie!

But there are questions that are so annoying, so inquisitive. These are mostly with HOW Much?

How much do you earn? How much do you pay for this or that?

Although I don’t hate these sort of questions as questions been simply asked as inquiries because that would not been considered rude. What I hate is when the person knows already the answer and asks to test your reliability. Or, when the person is asking to make you regret paying that sum whether it is  little or big. Or, when the person is such a telltale or a gossip whose job is spreading the news of others lives.

Is that not hateful?

With the best wishes,

Nahla

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Believe me…

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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

Things that go opposite to our expectations, dreams, and  hard work should not be seen as a failure. It’s a redirection.

We will weep, scream, hate , curse …  . Why me? That’s unfair!  But,  one day we will understand  how we’ve been saved and guided. One day when we look back over past years, we’ll understand how that all was a redirection and we’ve succeded in a different way, making different things.

What we really need to do is that after our every explosive reaction to that hateful news of failure is to not give up,  to not freeze at that spot. One gate is closed, but others will be opened.

And, one more thing, be honest to yourself for, perhaps, you are the main cause of the failure.

That’s how I’ve learned to see things and keep going after every redirection in my life.

By the way, is success merely admitted by gaining a certificate, a position, fortune, fame…. I don’t think so.

God knows the best,

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

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On a deserted Island

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What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

Three objects!

That reminds me of  a question  that I think was discussed in one of my science classes  many years ago. We were asked to pick the most essential items that would be mostly needed by a man on a deserted island and to explain why. You propaly  have solved one of these riddles on  your smart phones app games these days. Mainly material objects were suggested in our lesson;  things like a knife, a flashlight, box of matches, a water container, and other simple things and we, the students, were excited to prove which of the them would be the most helpful and the right choice.

However, asking me now the same question, I  would say that there are far more important things that those simple ones I had been learned to focus on at school. The things that I belive one would need both on a desered island and in crowded city.

There’s the will to survive. Without this will, all other things are useless. Without this will one won’t be able to adapt to the new environoment. But, I also believe that to stengthen this will, one should have a Faith. When you have faith, you’ll never feel deserted. You can add any other things after these two.

As for me, I believe it’s laughter.  Some people say, a good laughter could increase the number of your days on this earth.

Faith, the will to survive, and laughter. A simple recipe to live with!

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

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People

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What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

What’s better than meeting with different people!

Living in a different country, meeting with people of different culutres, people with different tongues, is such wonderful, though hard, experience that I believed I’ve been blessed to live.  This experience has been teaching me valuable lessons everyday.

I’m still the same me, however in a much wiser, much knowedgable, much careful version. And there’s one more important thing; when you’re living in a froiegn country, you’re granted a silver opportunity for choosing who you want to be. Either to cut your roots, discard them, borrow different seeds, and plant a complete different crop. Or, keep your old roots, plant then in the new soil, feed and water them every now and then. Believe me, you’ll be suprised how your old roots make a unique plant of you.

With all best wishes,

Nahla

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It’s Fate

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Do you believe in fate/destiny?

If  I did not choose my birthland,  my birthday, birth name? How can  I not believe in Fate?

I am a Muslim, and to believe in Fate with its goods and bads, is part and parcel of my religion. But I also believe that we all have granted a free will. This issue can be understood simply if we only intend to.

So, for example, one day you’ve decided to take a different road while walking home after work. As you’re walking, you glanced a child on his bike chasing after his friend and oblivious of how he started to swerve off the pavement. The road was quiet, until, suddenly, the child slipped from his tiny bike seat and fell on the ground. He burst out crying and you ran to help him. But then, a car on full speed was turning into the same road,  and just in a split second, you grabbed the child off the road before being smashed by the car.

It was fate that had sent you to that road, but it was your choice to save the child. 

With all the best wishes,

Nahla

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I do

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Do you enjoy your job?

People are different. Some won’t rest until they phyiscally reach the moon with all the hardships, risks and costs of the journey. However, there are others who would enjoy doing other things for their goal is a different moon.

I’ve always enjoyed hearing from others about their jobs, their workload and how that’s affecting their life. I have tried a few things, and you know what?  I believe God puts us where we need to be.

I am a mother and that’s the job when I won’t be replaced, sacked, or forgotten.

With all the best wishes,

Nahla