A Secret to share...

Why people fail to reach the happiness as they conceive it although they work hard for it? because out of the 60,000 thoughts a day that go in their minds, only few thoughts are focused on what they want of life instead of their worries and fears of others or failures. So the secret of happiness as revealed through the ages by the philosophers and lately, in the book of the Australian author "Rhonda Byrne" is simply that "your life course is a result of the quality of your thoughts". This is based on the ancient concept of "the law of attraction" or like attracts the like and applied as well to your life as a member of this world. Suppose you want a successful and rewarding career and you are always thinking about this, all the opportunities of a successful career will be attracted to you, or if you constantly thinking about good qualities people, you'll find them attracted to you and so on. The trick is to "quiet" your mind and get rid of the unnecessary crowd of negative thoughts of annoying people & events, and to focus on good things in people & in your life... Prayers & meditation are among the ways to reach that state of mind blanking. you can keep a log of happy moments in your life to refer to when you are faced with a bad feeling and a negative persistent thought. I have tried using this today, for two hours I managed to shut down a negative event some time but couldn't take it out of my mind, as if the thought has a mind of its own, it kept coming back to me during my errands and I kept pushing it as a physical being...I never thought it was as difficult to "filter" my thoughts. I'm definitely in need of training... now, for the next week I'll have this task "I'll monitor all my thoughts and recognize those which give me a strong feeling good or bad and work on them"...Sounds tough already, but definitely worth a try...

A stranger list of longings...

I've spent some time of my life as a stranger and I have this list which I'll be updating from time to time of the things which caused me to feel like a stranger:
1. Going back home and no one is there to talk to about your days or nights
2. Finding yourself in a waiting time and looking through your phone and not finding someone you can chat with to pass the time
3. Every child face reminds you of your lovely family children whom you terribly miss back home
4. Every weekend or short holiday reminds you that you will be alone and not setting on the table with your family members to chat or sample cooking
5. You have to ask strangers for help because you don't have a family member to carry your stuff, give you a ride or share an errand because you're too busy to do them alone
6. When someone is so straight forward and no more Nice talking or dealing, I really long for our polite culture
7. When you have to listen to ugly words (F..., SH..., D..., etc...) , I remember how musical our words to the ear (May god bless U, May God give u health, ...)
8. When you look to the faces around you and don't find anything in common...

"monkeys grasp the moon"

Group of Monkeys saw the reflection of the moon on a pool of water from their place on a tree branch, they decided to link their arms and legs to form a link to reach what they thought the real moon in the pool, when they touched the image of the moon, the water disrupted and the image faded...the moral of the story is what we strive to achieve may in fact be an illusion...The Sackler museum in Washington D.C. has this beautiful chain hanging down 90 ft. from the skylight at the top of the museum to a reflecting pool on the lowest floor of the gallery. The chain is made of repetitions of the word "monkey" with different international languages as Hindi, Japanese, French, Spanish, Hebrew, English and of course Arabia (The last word at the bottom of the chain)...the words are linked to resemble the monkeys grasp for the moon, this creative idea is originated based on this Old story by the award winning artist Xu Bing, I loved it...I wish I'm not on the wrong track and that not everything I strive to do is in vain, quite scary when you think of it!!!

Ouch!!

My article about Dr. Mohammad Al-qnabit was not published:
they said it touched a "sensitive topic", I quoted his words on National TV, so what sensitive topic? but then he was relieved from all his formal positions, what a waste!!!... this put me in a melancholy state... now I'm roaming the net and I found this blogger "Saudi jeans" for Ahmad Al-Omran, a shite Muslim who studies Pharmacy in Riyadh and who loves wearing Jeans (but he didn't in his posted photo) and blogging his views and opinions, all the ingredients for an upcoming antagonist for our traditional school of thoughts... his blog is excellent, a real joy to read and browse.... it drew much attention and discussed very important topics with a very objective and rational way, I have to say that I'm deeply impressed and I haven't been for some time... now I'm getting in a higher state, I read the impressions left by the blogger on Riyadh book fair and that kept me thinking about the way religion is conceived by the religious police as a way to show dominance and authority rather than to convey virtues, as if others have to be reprimanded... I think my next article will not be published as well, I kind of pressed on this topic... I think I'm getting louder and losing my careful cat approach... what a waste though for Dr. Mohammad, I really wish I could do something for his cause!!!