06 August 2006

The Tunrpoint

The red cross volunteers stirred my conscious and the conscious of thousands of people like me, we saw them running in the WAR ZONE just to help remove disfigured corps under the pile of rocks, which once had inhabitants now they are merely a pile of ruins where you feel the hand of barbarians has painted its image on it …… these volunteers endanger their own lives to assist people and save only few who still have a breath left of their bodies before they are perished from this nightmare. This humanitarian act revived us from the state that we were in and it touched our existence …………

People can choose to be either the victim of the world and yield in by breaking into pieces and collapsing under the claws of stress which is the case of lot of Lebanese, many people already developed panic attacks and collapsed or they can take the other side of the coin and proclaim this as a quest for peace, trying to make a difference in someone else’s life , by following the example of red cross volunteers.

It’s all a question of how people view things in life….

A group of AUB students majoring in health field organized a volunteer group to assist the deported refugees who already have chronic diseases but live in negligence and despair ……. Also they developed a plan to control spread of infectious diseases or breaking of an epidemic to prevent these poor people jumping from the frying pan into the boiling pot. Moreover, they prepared health teaching sessions to create awareness and fight infectious diseases at primary level of prevention. We need to take an initiative to start from somewhere and increase the circle like snowball effect to control the situation.

Their persistence encouraged a lot of students and medical Drs to get involved by joining hands to make a difference ……. For those of you who are interested in participating in this humanitarian act please contact: http://www.aub.edu.lb/challenge/help.html

Instead of feeling paralyzed you actually can help others, remember the choices you make the paths you take make all the difference, don’t be late in taking the right choice ……

02 August 2006

My view of happiness is merely this ……..

HAPPINESS

Is it the rain crying at the windowpane?
Or it’s your memory that’s going to drain…..
To drench every cell and dive in pain,
In the frame of illusion that drives them insane…….

With whom you’re dining tonight?
Or dancing like in heaven so bright…..
You’re worse then Casanova that lures all night,
Flooding grudge to ignite the fight…….

You mock at every soul and make them believe,
Embrace them so tight to let them perceive,
That you’re their possession and make them conceive,
While they’re dreaming, you fly and you deceive …….
IRONY ..........

Life moves so fast that it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds, at every bloody moment in our lives we all have one foot in a fairy tail and the other sunk in abyss….. The day before 13 July Lebanese were celebrating summer, relaxing at the beach, tourism was at the peak of it’s progress, finally after a long list of assassinations of political leaders the country was starting to get on his feet again to start molding its wounded economy and rebuilding the ruined scars all of a sudden on July 13 the peaceful breeze that was embodying the city vanished within minutes to be surrendered by the black veil of terror accompanied with the roaring of the planes and bombs pouring like hailstones, draining every single drop of courage that people possess.

These people are using the art of diplomacy, to keep their opponents waiting, Waiting for GODO…….. They are keeping a façade of normality, trying to procrastinate till the problem eventually resolves by itself. Till now their strategy of war is still vague, they claim to attack only the so called “terrorist militias”? Then how come all around Lebanon even pure Christian territories are being bombed????? Being third world country this is what we get, total control by the more powerful……. Do you honestly think that people who crucified Jesus Christ will spare anyone in Lebanon?

The unavoidable happens at the very moment when people start to feel a little bit secured and confident in following the right path of their personal goal, when each one feels he is the master of the situation something drastic happens to cast them down, and you ask WHY? Can it be that we are all condemned to see the palm trees only to die of thirst in the desert? People feel that the wings of tragedy are brushing against their face.

A friend of mine wanted me to update my blog, but why? To keep people informed about the drastic changes in our lives? Of the stormy nights where the electricity looks like the one on a Christmas tree only it’s a little bit early this time….. Where instead of presents children are bestowed with bombs, or the creepy feeling in your soul when you walk in some street that makes you question yourself if you’re in a ghost town or not? Why should we write? They killed every single drop of passion in our hearts; the majority has enough hope to survive the day…….

Maybe he is right, maybe I can’t say what I want to say using other means except writing, so be it ……