The Future

You know, sometimes you come up with those great plans that you could do, plans to reach a certain goal, plans to help your family, plans to serve your nation, just whatever plans.. Like those things you think of late at night when you can't fall asleep, that moment at night when everything is reachable and you feel like you own the world, those plans, those big dreams, go for them! Don't just feel silly in the morning, or feel stoppable, the minutes are passing and you only have one life, get a pencil and a paper and write them down, think them through, how can you get to them? And most importantly what is stopping you? Can what's stopping you be fixed? Go fix it!

Every day we end up saying: 'tomorrow', 'today I don't feel like it', 'it's going to complicate things', 'I can't do this alone', 'not in this country'.. those are all in your mind! Remember the plans you had when you were ten that you kept for when you're twenty? Well, you are twenty and planing for things for when you're thirty. Well, I'm telling you now, when you're thirty you'll be planning for fifty and those dreams will be lost once again. And when you are sixty, you'll just wish you were ten again to do everything you can't do anymore.

Be naive, be stupid, make mistakes, fail, do things you'd look back to in ten years and be ashamed of yourself because right then you'd know; at least you did something.

Today I did something.

After going to the dentist and finding out that my wisdom teeth had flipped and no longer needed surgery my family and I headed to my childhood best friends, or shall I say childhood's second family's home to see their latest four days old family member. It was my first time meeting Ali, he is incredibly tiny and very cute! His mom and I have big photography plans for the future.

After that I went to Starbucks with my friends, and no, not just to hangout. We are forming a small 'organisation' if that's what I may call it, and we had set our goals and hopes to help our nation rise up instead of waiting for older people to take action. We are the youth, we are the future, and we are capable. Some of our plans for the future may be bigger than us, but we are all in for achieving them, and we will not quit. Stay tuned for more details. 

Blank

So I've been sitting here for five hours trying to come up with something to write, but my mind has just gone blank!

Do you ever have those moments where you just want to give up on everything and sit there in bed not having to worry about a person or some sort of work or family or life or anything, just sit there enjoy a couple of songs and a sunset?

Some days get hard, but I promise you, everything will be okay!

And always remember, you are good enough, strong enough to get back up on your feet and smile your way through your day, you are strong enough to be happy and make the best of everything..

Keep in mind that you are awesome. And I know you are because you are wasting to read my, mostly boring, blog, yea it makes you awesome to me. Being awesome to me is something, isn't it?

Anyhow

Today I had my first taco ever! My mum had made us some for lunch and I loved them, and since it was my first, I had to share it here.

Then I hung out with a couple of ladies my friends and I met the other day, and they are Americans and came here for on a cultural exchange program, they are really nice people, but we got too carried away talking about mansaf and Ramadan rituals that I forgot to take a group photo. But we are supposed to hang out again before they leave so maybe then you'd meet them.

At last, I came back home to my cousin's birthday. She studies in Belgium and only comes to Jordan during holidays, so it hadn't happened that she's here on her birthday for a couple of years now, so we had to celebrate. And she eats Gluten-Free, meaning: she can't eat anything that has wheat or anything related to it, meaning: she can't eat any sort of cake. And what is a birthday without a cake to put candles on. Eventually, my sister and I came up with the idea of having a banana for a cake, yes literally a banana. We ended up having a great time and a great laugh, and that cake was delicious! 

100 Happy Days

I know I'm a happy and grateful person, but what is it that makes me happy?

To know the answer to that I registered for a challenge today, you may have heard of already, which is made to make people happier. I love the idea of this challenge so I'm sharing it with you because I think everyone should take this challenge. You have nothing to lose. Please make it go mainstream lol

It simply goes like this:

You register,  pick on which social media you want to make the challenge, and you start posting photos every single day for a 100 days in a row of a thing that made you happy that day.

Click here for their website!

Now it seems excitingly easy at first, but when you think of it; a 100 days are not simple, that's a hell lot of days there!

I personally am going to be posting on Instagram, you can follow me here.

And lastly, good luck if you are going to take it.

Today I woke up to a phone call from mum saying that I should bring my sister from school, so I dressed up fast and went out. Got back home and had lunch, right after we decided to go to the mall. When I was there my friends messaged me that they are going to hang out in the mall at 6. 

It was a perfect coincidence, I finished shopping empty-handed and went down to meet them. As usual, had good laughs with the weirdest people, I believe that our weirdness is what keeps us together, always a good time with them!

And Tala got us Krispy Kreme doughnuts from Dubai, thank you Tala, and welcome back!

Holiday Plans

So today I took my sister to the dentist, and then had a 'wisdom teeth X-ray' and then went to the mall very fast to pick up a new external hard disk and spent the day moving files to provide some extra space on my laptop. So nothing interesting happened.

But for this holiday I have big plans, something like new year's resolutions, but holiday resolutions. does that even make sense? 

Anyway...

1st:

I want to learn Adigabza, I have taken a course before, but this time many of my friends are taking it with me so I am hoping we'd be able to practice a lot more. I am really excited about this one!

2nd:

Get back in touch with all of my friends, the old and the new, and try to make time for everyone, I appreciate every single person in my life and I want to spend my time with all of them. So I'll surely work on that.

3rd:

Read the stack of books I've been keeping to when I have free time. I think I'm going to start with 'The Fault In Our Stars' because I want to finish reading it before it hits the cinemas. I'll give reviews on the books I read as I finish each one. And I'm sorry that the rest are all Agatha Christie's, her books are the most enjoyable for me.

4th:

Learn how to cook. I love baking, but I have never cooked. And I believe that it is time that I start learning how to cook, I'll start with basics that are essential in every dish and work my way up to learning how to cook a whole dish. I'll share some tips if I find anything useful.

5th:

Watch the series that I love and dive into endless fandoms.  Because you know when I have uni I might have 2 hours a day to watch two or three episodes, but then it will take so much of my mind, cause I really get involved in series and start to live and feel with them. it just doesn't go, emotionally, with uni. If anyone has this same issue, please be my friend.

I'll keep you posted on where I get with those, and I'll give reviews for the books and series, and movies if I ever watch any.

Be Kind

In our modern-day being kind is considered a sign of weakness, in people's eyes it allows everyone to take advantage of them.

I used to believe that too, I thought being kind is a weakness too.

But I later figured out that it isn't, helping people, being there for everyone, caring about everyone, it may be harder, but it's not weak. And if you are kind enough, then you are smart enough to know if the people taking advantage of it are worth it or not. And if not you are strong enough to let them go.

And always remember that God asked us to be kind, so if you were God would be there for you and will help you through it all.

Today I went on a photography mission, that turned into one of the most memorable days of my life. Sometimes you meet people, and right from the first second you can tell that they are special, and today I hung out with two of those people. We had good laughs and had a hell lot of fun!

I hope we get to do it again sometime

It's just the beginning

Why do I do this? Who is interested? What is so special about my life?

Questions like this drained me out of motivation, and I stopped blogging. To tell you that I have answered those questions and that's why I am back, no I haven't. And I don't know why I'm back, blogging makes me happy I guess. So here I go again.

I wanted the first post back to be special, so I waited until today.

Today was a special day in my life. Not a very good kind of special, but a unique kind of special.

Today was the day when Circassians all around the world came together to stand strong and support one united cause.
The cause that is bigger than the Olympics, the cause that proves that Sochi is our land, is the land which our ancestors fought on in order for us to stay alive, for us to keep their legacy alive, for us to deliver their message that says Sochi is a free Circassian land, and it will never be Russian. 

Today was the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, the Sochi Olympics that we have been trying to stop for half a decade. but is it over? no, it's not. Even if the Olympics had started, and even if they end, it's all just the beginning. The Olympics just lit the flame of an angry nation, which after 150 years came back to fighting over their rights.