The Craft of Living

"A friend in need is a friend indeed" I guess i keep remembering this proverb every once in a while. And everyday i realize how powerful and meaningful it is. Those times you are in need are indeed the times you know who your true friends are. I just sometimes forget who they are.... And sometimes i under appreciate them But i Thank God that those friends are still there for me when i am in need. And that only proves that they are THE REAL THING. Al7amdulellah.

I have noticed something really weird in this culture of ours. We are extremely competitive. You think that this isnt weird right? Wait until i give you this example... Person 1: Im sooo tired... i have a headache and i think im coming down with the flu. Person 2: OOOH thats nothing.... I have a headache, heartache, stomach ache... my kids are annoying, my parents are killing me, my husband is a bastard, im fat, My clothes wont fit, i dont have money, i dont know how i will pay my kids tuition fees, my kids hate me, My boss is an ass, my career is not going the way i want it to, im worthless, im un(der)appreciated and overloaded. :) Thats what i mean by weird competitiveness! We compete even in the bad stuff!! I dont get it. DO we have to be more in anything? im bad...im worse im sad... im miserable im sick... im dying I sometimes think maybe the person who sounds like he is worse is trying to cheer the other up. Thats one way to do it isnt it? Mashi... What about the people who just c...

Sometimes i watch my friends looking at their moms. How they take their moms signals to do anything and everything... or even do the opposite thing. I guess moms are like traffic signals. They give you a red light and you freeze. THey give you the yellow light and you wait until the right moment comes... Then they give you the green light to go. And what fascinates me is... its by instinct. I wonder if i used to do that. Im pretty sure i used to do that... but would i still be doing it? How many people have noticed that about themselves in the first place. I wonder... how many people know themselves! :)