Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
Don’t you miss your old fashioned phone?
Don’t you miss the days you use your brain, hands, and feelings to write a letter, a note, or a postcard?
Don’t you long for using a pen and paper?
Don’t you miss your old telephone and address book?
Don’t you miss a family outing without a phone, without a camera?
Don”t you miss privacy and respect?
The list of things that have become nowadays old fashioned is so long. I don’t know about you, but I do miss this phase of my life and that’s the phase I found too hard to say goodbye to.
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
Why not live a dream for a day? Whatever your dream is, don’t you think that it will still be YOU living it. No one else. So, if you could be someone else for a day that doesn’t mean to not be yourself. Hopefully, that makes sense!
As for myself, I won’t choose any special person, any celebrity, any scholar… I mainly think of living a different experience. In this context, I would love to be a horse owner, rider, or equestrian!
I love these noble creatures though I have rarely encountered any but I read briefly about them. Do you know that they are mentioned in the holy scriptures?
It”ll be fun not only to spend a day in a ranch but also to see myself as rider and a friend to one of these creatures who as some say are “poetry in motion.”
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.
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?
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.
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.
Bored, honestly I rarely use the word but used to hear it quite a lot by others.
Let me give you a brief real example; I’m taking my daughter every week to a tennis club. It’s mainly one hour where I usually spend in reading or watching children playing. However, if one of my sons graces me with his company, he would make it feel like ten hours though he’ll be mostly using their phones.
I think it mainly depends on the person. If one wants to be bored, one will definitely be bored!
However, of course, I get bored. It happens sometimes on social gatherings, especially indoor, when out of genuine respect to the host/ess, I can’t grab a book in case of being struck by boredom . So, imagine youself being surrouded by people sharing topics you either don’t know or don’t want to know. Worse still, they don’t care. That’s when I count not merely the minutes but also the seconds until I step out of the whole place.
“A companion on the ship.” How lovely to have one or two good friends in our life journey.
Nowadays, I believe true friendhip is a bit hard for even good old friends keep rarely in touch or are not as close as they used to be years ago. Despite all these super facilities of communications that should have made people get closer, we’ve become so distant from one another.
So, back to my favourite “companion on the ship” I will say those who will prehaps cross my path even once but who don’t pry into others’ personal life. Those who show respect and appreciation. And, those who are fun loving.
In brief, who would not like to be around positive people!
Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.
My wedding shoes will always be my favourite. They have taken me to a new different world and, though with its all ups and downs, I am deeply thankful for living such an adventure!
And, I believe who had ever said that ” the right shoes can make everything different,” was so right.
By the way, mine were not that fancy and I have no idea where they ended up after my move to the UK.
Pure and Simple 