It's been a long time since I wrote something in my blog page. I was busy living... and still I am. But really I was moved to write now after all the events that took place in Egypt.
I will write about my experience during this period in details, I will not comment or give an opinion; I will only give you my insight from my paradigm.
First I heard about the protests that would take place on the 25th of January. I thought it is a normal protests like the ones we've been hearing about for the past 4 years. I saw the news coverage in the TV, over all channels; they were very limited, and then it started to take more time in all news channels right after the Police started to fire teargas and rubber bullets towards the peaceful protesters.At first I was shocked of what is happening, we felt we are watching an American movie or so.. but in fact it was Egypt streets.
After the 25th of January, I heard about the large protests that was to be held on Friday 28th of January. My husband and I went to see what is going on in Mostafa Mahmoud square, and we
walked till mid of El Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz, we saw lots of police cars in the street surrounding the protesters. We got a strange feeling of chaos and fear in our hearts, and we went back home and stayed.In the evening, it was the mess, when we saw from our balcony the thugs and robbers breaking the shop in the building beside us. They even tried to enter this building, but a neighbor who had a gun, fired two bullets in the air to scare them, then all our neighbors went in the street to protect it from thugs.
All my body was shaking from fear. The first thing I thought of was my son. I do not want him to get hurt, I do not want him to see this mess, I want to protect him... I thought of our end and may be the way we will die, and I thought of many bad thoughts that came into my mind in this day. On that day, I decided that I can be no more silent and passive. It is my family that I might loose because of the mess, and I decided to take the side I really deeply believe in.
I started to write some sentences on the facebook to express what I believe in, and how I see
things, and how to change the ugly fact. My husband was not welcoming the idea and was against me in the beginning. But as things progressed and time passed, both of us were convinced that this country needs a real change.The two peeches given by the former president, were really depressing and were not coming in the right time. Everytime he went for a speech, the next act was ugly. The second speech was followed by an attack for thugs on camels and horses to the protesters of Tahrir Square. The third speech was really irritating and provoking; and made other people who are not into politics, to go and join the protesters. It made our life more complicated.
After the last speech of the vice president, where he announced that the president stepped down, we thought that this is a dream. We could not beleive what the protesters have achieved, and that this was a real people revolution. For a while we thought he is eternal and immortal, and that this was not true. We were very happy that he stepped down, we were not afraid of what is coming up like many of our friends who were thinking of all the mess we are living in till now; we were full of hope and courage, we thought that we want to be part of it, and we want to celebrate, not only this, we want to be part of the service to this country.
The example of what happened that I was following in my mind was: If I got a virus in my computer that is unbeatable, or cannot be removed, and it is about to ruin my files, then the best thing is to take a copy of my important files, and format my hard disk. Yes I will have to pay for a new software, and may be upgrade hardware, and I will spend time to format and install new programs and re-arrange my files; but at the end, it will be for the best, it will come back to me as a brand new well set computer. (Metaphorically speaking about the country).
It is time to "format" the country, and clean all "viruses". It is time to install a new "software" in a clean environment. But also, it is CRUCIAL to ALWAYS ALWAYS have an "Anti-virus" that is continuously updated to detect new viruses when they try to attack the system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAEt6QJJi-c&feature=player_detailpage
My family and I are optimistic about the future and we think it will be for the best of the country. Yes we will suffer in the short term, but it will be for the best on the medium and long term.
See you soon in a new blog.
