Quotes to cheer you up

To LOVE or not to LOVE

The same question that Shakespeare asked before... however... this version is modernized...

In Shakespeare's time, love was not a choice, it was more like a coincidence, or even luxury, that their time did not have the option in...

It was a choice of life and death... you are either able to get who you love in your life, or you scarifies your life for whom you love and just live with pain... that will lead to slow torturing death....

The good old days have gone... LOVE, which used to be luxury, and a wish to everyone, is no longer as valuable and as important as it used to be... it is not treated with respect or holiness as before... It became a commodity, rather than a feeling... it became a bargain, rather than a sacrifice... it is now a trend and a mean rather than a life or a goal...

Now we have the choice to LOVE or not to LOVE... we can push the button of the emotions "remote control" and decide to love hehe... funny, isn't it???

Pure love that we used to see is now vanishing from our life... people are getting more materialistic, and don't have the time for it...

The question now that everyone asks is: do we really need LOVE??? does it affect us not to have it...???

Do we really have time to go through the hassle of the LOVE battle... try to win it or conquer our opponent??? do we really have an opponent in life other than "TIME"???

Let me tell you something... we had the luxury of having LOVE in our modern life... we have the option to choose, and life is much easier for us to access it... however, we are now lacking "time" to love, and to give love... we are ready to receive, but never give!!! What a shame!!!

We'd rather look for the person who loves us than the person we love... we do not want to waste our time... we'd rather save it for any other thing...

We do not give ourselves enough "time" to stop, take a breath, and check the world around us... look for pure love... we'd rather use the word "love" as a mean to a different goal... regardless of what we really feel.... it became a commodity stored in our brain, we just use it whenever it is needed... we use it as a weapon or as a tool... depending on the situation...

For me... I can tell you, (and from a life, hands-on experience) that LOVE for me is a sacred holistic state of mind... when you enter in this mood you are a sacred pure person... all the good things in you comes out on the surface of your deep iceberg character....

I simply love LOVE... love this state of mind that makes you tipsy while sober... that gets your wings out to be able to fly to the seventh sky of heaven.... that makes you happy for no reason except that you want to be happy... that you see everything in its positive side regardless of the agony you are going through...!!!

Isn't it an amazing state of mind??? that should be appreciated, respected, and offered unconditionally to the person you share this with???

I thank you for reading this... I hope I was able to cheer you up... and give you a different meaning of our modern life with "good old days" LOVE...

Have a wonderful lovely day...

Quotes About Attitude

I decided to write this to my blog readers, especially after my experience yesterday in the Pyramids... Enjoy reading... Comments are welcome...


THE CAN DO ATTITUDE:
* You CAN DO everything, but not all at once.
* You CAN DO everything, if it’s important enough for you to do.
* You CAN DO everything, but you may not be the best at everything.
* You CAN DO everything, but there will be limitations.
* You CAN DO everything, but you’ll need help.


BEST QUOTES ON POSITIVE ATTITUDE:
* A positive thought is the seed of a positive result.
* If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
* The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
* If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.
* Whether a glass if half-full or half-empty, depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.
* There is a better way for everything. Find it.
* A positive attitude is not a destination. It is a way of life.
* The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
* The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
* The man with confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
* You will only go as far as you think you can go.
* The biggest mistake of all is to avoid situations in which you might make a mistake.
* A positive attitude is like a magnet for positive results.
* Our life is a reflection of our attitudes.
* Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.
* Attitude, not aptitude, determines your altitude.
* No man fails if he does his best.
* Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
* A creative attitude is the fuel of progress and growth.
* Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
* Be the change you want to see in this world.
* Forgive others and you will be forgiven.

Worst experience at the Giza Pyramids

Helloo All....

You will wonder why I am writing such a title... but really I was sooo furious and angry of what happened with us in OUR COUNTRY....

As a matter of fact, I felt really humiliated yesterday.. it was one of the worst experiences I have ever had... that is why I decided to write about it... so that people who faced such an attitude and experience, know that the normal Egyptian person could suffer and be treated like "shit"... excuse my french hehe...

Yesterday, me and my personal trainer (rehabilitator and personal trainer to recover from my previous accident), went to the Giza Pyramids... since there is a lot of sand there, so I can better train my leg....

We went there yesterday.. like normal people visiting the pyramids... just to have some sports and do exercise, then come back home...

We parked the car, my personal trainer took the initiative, and went to but two tickets (of course Egyptian price.. 2 LE each).

On the gate of the pyramids, a guy, wearing normal clothes, approached us and he asked us in ARABIC what is our nationality (of course we answered him back in Egyptian slang language that we are Egyptians).. it seemed that this was not enough for him to prove that we are EGYPTIANS... (although he was speaking Egyptian slang language, and he does not know any other language)..
I simply answered... "if we speak Egyptian slang language.. so definitely we are Egyptians" simple and Easy... does not need any intelligence to figure it out.

Anyway, another guy approached my car (again with normal clothes and no sign of him being a policeman), and he asked me of my driving license... I simply answered that I do not know him and need to have a prove that he is a policeman...
"In such a country you can never guarantee who is who, unless there is a proof... and everyone doubts everyone"

Anyway, he told me "ok"... since you said that... I want to check your car... meaning that he wants to scan and screen it himself...

I told him I do not mind, since this is the instructions they have.... apparently it was not the instrusctions they have... it is the guy's instructions... he did not like my face or so... so he started treating us like criminals... not only this... HE ENTERED MY CAR AND CHECKED EVERYTHING IN IT... AND NOT ONLY THIS... HE WAS TALKING IN A REALLY RUDE WAY... AND GIVING ME ORDERS TO... "SUCH AS" OPEN THIS AND DO THAT...ETC.

In the same time... I saw other cars... not having the same treatment... so it is apparently what the police officer sees, and not by rule...

I really felt sooo offended... I am in my country and I am treated like shit... where if I only bought a foreigners ticket with 40 or 50LE... I would have been treated like a queen..

Can you believe how Egyptians are treated and humiliated in their country...

This assures me that whenever I need to go to a public place... I should privatize it for myself hehe.. meaning.. that I should call the connections and friends I know there so that I get the royal treatment... or at least the normal one...

How on earth does that happen??? How do Egyptians accept to be treated as an inferior race in their own country, while foreigners who treat us badly when we go to their country, we treat them as a superior race.!!!!!!!

Need a real explanation for this...

This incident makes me translate it like the following: I am going to my house... and I find that the concierge who has the house key "whom I am paying his salary", in this incident it is the "taxes I am paying" is being rude... not only this.. but he thinks he owns the keys to heaven and is controlling it...

I think this is ridiculous....

We lack respect... we lack manners... we lack professionalism... and I do not think that such a caliber of people, who was in front of the Pyramids gate, is the caliber that should represent us in front of the world visitors, who are coming to visit us...
As an Egyptian... I protest bad manners and less respect to each others... I have the right to be treated like a human being, with respect and in a descent way...
I am not talking about myself only... I am talking about the normal local person... he had dignity before and he is now deprived from even being treated as a human being...

The problem is not in the police officer who was by the pyramids gate only... the problem lies in the attitude in general... the way people deal with each others... the way people use their power for just controlling people, and not for applying the rules...

I bet you... this police officer without his id... is nothing... but he is using it against people... not with them or at the service of the rules and regulation and general benefit...

Is this what we want to have??? Is this what we want to be??? are we subliminal and irrespective to each others like that??? Does our power give us the excuse to mistreat each others????
I do not think so....

The only thing that I can say is "Ya 7'ossara Ya Masr"... I am really sad and ashamed that we reached this...

Please give me your comments and what do you think of this... or just let me know if you faced such an incident before...

Letter to God

I’ve done my part… or so I think


Dear God…
I know it is strange to send you this message since you do have other means to communicate to you… I know really that you are there for me.. not only for me but for everyone on this planet and for every creature you have created.

I do not claim that I was doing all the right things you asked us to do… or all the good things you wanted us to do… but I felt you always were with me… and you are still with me in all what I am doing…

Of course I do mistakes, and I sometimes exceed my limits… but I feel you understand me and you are forgiven… JJ

I always think of you and believe in your power.. and believe that you will help me out from my situation

You helped me in my operation and my health problems… you stood beside me and made people stand beside me for that… you even gave me a lump sum gift from you.. I never thought it would come to me JJ
You made me feel comfortable, while I was in pain… you assured me that there will be a good tomorrow… you sent me all the good people to help me, and even sent me people I never thought they will stand beside me.
I really remember that… and will never forget that when I was in the worst time… you were there for me… you did not forget me… you did not deny me from your mercy and blessing…

I remember that you sent me people to ease away pain and to boost my moral.. you even gave me power to say yes and no… you gave me power to conquer pain, heal and stand… you gave me power to be patient and calm… to look at the positive side of everything… and to learn lessons from what happened.

I am grateful to all that… and grateful that you inspired me and gave me part of your power.

I am grateful to everything you made for me… and more grateful that you made some people appear in my way to help me out… even when looking for a job… you made people ask me to send them my resume, without me asking them to do so… JJ

I am grateful for love that you kept in my heart… the passion and emotions that I express… the love that I spread all over and around me… the friends that you made me gain during this period of time… the activities that you kept me busy in for me not to feel bored… the adequate trainer who trains me to help me to come back to normal status and ride horses again JJ

I want to thank you for everything you’ve done to me… I sometimes look like I do not care in front of people, but I do not care about their opinion… because ONLY you who knows what I think and how I act… even when I do mistakes, you know that those mistakes are learning lessons… JJ

I love you and I think you are there for me… I know that I ask you sometimes for too much.. but you created me like that, and you know my keys and how I operate… sometimes you give me choices… and when I choose the wrong one… again you are there to support me in it… somehow with your mercy and blessing…

I sometimes act wild… arrogant… irrational… or may be ignorant… but deep inside me there is faith… faith in you… in your powers… in what you can do… and I believe you always save the best for last… JJ

I am trying to find words to thank you but I cannot find them… I am really speechless… this letter is a confession… I have done my part and told you everything I am thinking of and I took everything off my chest ..I feel relieved that you read this and listened to me…

May be you know that for a fact, but I really wanted to write it to make it as a statement.. to feel that you really know it.. and may be just writing it made me feel more confident in tomorrow and in your power…

I cannot say more than that… I feel I burdened you with all this letter… I know you know all of it beforehand… but writing it seems to me like a reassurance for my mind that you know it…

Looking forward to hearing from you soon..

With all my love and respect..

Your grateful creature…


Riham