Black and White!

“Act like a lady, think like a man” is a nonfiction book by the American comedian Steve Harvey. The title sounds strange and eye-catching and I’ve came across it on an article on the internet about its appearance on Oprah’s show and that’s why I started reading it.

The book talks about how men think, how women act, and how women can deal with men by understanding their mindset.

As of any book that I read, I always take in the aspects of it that fits with my views, personality, and culture and this is what I’ve done when I read it, I kept nodding along to many of the things said there that I found true and fitting. However, I’ve thought how it would be like if an Egyptian comedian wrote a book about the same subject! Can you picture how that would be like? Anyway, I would like to recommend that you read this book and think about the similarities that it has with our culture, that’s the fun of it!

Since the book is about men and women, I’m going to take the opportunity to talk about the subject of “men VS women” as well. It has occupied the minds of many people, writers, and thinkers for a long time. Till now, it seems like they haven’t reached a common ground about it. I think they never will. There will always be some people who think men are better or vice versa. We will always find these articles on the internet or the newspaper about scientists who have a theory that proves that men are actually smarter than women or that women have a higher IQ score! For me, I simply don’t really care about all these views and I think they are just a waste of time.

Men and women, each were created having their own unique responsibilities, duties, features and state of mind. None is better than the other. They are equal concerning their rights as human beings but they can never be the same. They will always be different. That will never change even if men and women turned out, in the future, to be from planet Pluto instead of Mars and Venus!

I like to think of it as the Yin-Yang theory. Women are the Yin – the black part of the circle. Men are the Yang – the white part of the circle. They both complete each other although they are different. The black part of the circle contains a part of the white while the white part of the circle contains a part of the black. That’s what makes the balance. Men and women simply complement one another and have a little of each other within themselves.

How do you like to think of it?

Pay attention or pay the price!

Lately I've been hearing the sad news of so many deaths. Most of them were caused by car accidents. of course I can't deny the fact that part of it was God's will, that these people died because it was their time, but the other part was how they died, they died in this way because of their carelessness or because of other people's carelessness.

People should know that driving isn't such an easy thing that you take for granted. Just because you know how to drive a car doesn't mean you're immune to a horrible accident on the way. Once someone gets a license and a new car, everyone just wants to party with it, go everywhere with it, even to the closest places, say we gotta try driving there or else you won't learn! and so on of such things. They forget that the slightest mistake could end up their lives or other people's lives in a horrible way.

I've been driving for about a year, and I've seen how many people drive on the way. They seriously think they are invincible rockets or something! And this makes me nervous while I'm driving and being nervous isn't really a good thing while you're driving between...rockets! Really!

Guys seriously...You don't look cool when you drive so fast and go left and right fast without making a sign! seriously it's not cool and girls don't like it like you may think! You only look like a stupid wanna be slash show off!!

Same thing for girls who do so, they won't like you any better believe me, so don't boast that you drive more than 80km/hr while the maximum speed should be 60km/hr!

This is a serious matter! you could take the life of a person or yours in a second!

Oh and the new trend! Hassling the girls while they are driving! I've been in this situation many times! Here I am driving normally by the sea and a bunch of stupid guys driving next to me start trying to make me drift with my car! Really what the hell is this?! I could have made an accident or killed anyone in any of these times, than God it didn't happen!

Also those people who don't even CARE to look before they cross the street. seriously...are you insane?! and do you believe that you could faster than a car moving with a 60km/hr speed?! it might work for you sometime, but the next, you're gonna be lying in the hospital or dead!
These people drive me crazy! There are things called "tunnels!" heard about them before?! yeah you did but you're too lazy to cross them and you're not too lazy to put your life in danger! They don't even look! and when I shout at them it's like I've just did a crime! I'm so sorry because I care about your life more than you do!

So please, people, take care when you drive, or when you're crossing the street, because it's not something to be careless about!

I know the traffic sucks, and taxi drivers and micro bus drivers drive in a..what should I call it..barbaric way! but at least educated adults and teens should not drive in such a way. Really, driving like that is never "adventurous" it's pure "madness" that takes the life of many people everyday.

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What's that smell?!

I was so tired, with too much of Greece on my mind! I slept very early yesterday and woke up nine hours later, right before dawn. I don't remember what I had dreamt very clearly. But strangely enough, I dreamt of what I had thought I would. My dreams have become very acurate lately.

"Madness?! THIS IS SPARTA!!"

Okayyy, enough Greece already...Three hours later, the sun lit the room. I opened the window and its rays were printed on the floor. I smelled this smell...I never liked it, the smell of some early mornings. It's the smell of not wanting to go to school, of craving sleep and bed, of exams. So, I just closed the window again...

I made a cup of tea. Oh! I could see my reflection in it...hmm my eyes look wider inside! The swirling steam went up warming my face. Inhaling the aroma was waking me up little by little. Yeah...That's the smell I love *smiles:)*...The smell of warmth -- and escaping studying!

What if? or not!

I wondered for a long time what if at a certain moment in my life, I took a different choice? as small as it had been in the past, it would have changed my entire present. Again, what if it would still lead me to the same destiny by just taking another route?

The "what ifs" are endless that I could bring about a whole different life of mine made up of other choices I could have chosen. But the problem remains. Regrets can never change things.
There is always the choice of starting over although whatever was wounded can never cure to normal again.

I will always have a chance to change and live life differently the way I want it. I keep asking myself if there's use of fighting for it. It seems impossible and the thought gets me hopelessly depressed and sad that I want to give up and let go to the normal course of things. But then I find myself trying again, not knowing the reason. At least, I wouldn't regret not trying and asking "what if" about it later.

Why does everything sometimes just turn upside down and color everything with black, dotted with small flickers of hope and longing?

Life can be so unfair sometimes. All I have to do is wait and endure the tears and pain that it brings, right?
"We have to take love where we find it, even if that means years of disappointment and sadness."

Karma or whatever you wanna call it!

I was thinking a lot about karma today. I wondered how come even though we believe our actions will turn back to us whether they were good or bad, we still do them anyway without thinking. I guess it's because it doesn't happen right away so we kind of forget. But the worst thing is that it always catches us off guard when we least expect it making us think about what we did wrong.

But what if all the good we did just return as bad to us? what would we call that? A test? or just karma at work again as a consequence of being too foolish or stupid to trust, love, or believe in somebody who might not even have thought about our feelings and the hurt they were causing without a reason or being foolish enough to do something wrong?? I think karma may be a little bit complicated concerning how it works.

But the question is, should we think a million times about the things we are about to do just because we're afraid of karma getting back at us if they were wrong or because we're afraid to hurt the people who actually care a lot about us and returning their good with bad????

Yeah i know that's a pretty long question! But well either way, i think we should think very well about our actions and about what they might cause. Because we might end up either hurting ourselves or hurting others who care about us. No matter what we do, there will always be consequences.

I'm with the Vampires!

It's a very weird world we're living in. No one is happy with what they got. The poor wish to have some money to be happy while the rich feel the money took their happiness away and they still can't live without it. The married wish they become single and free while the single wish everyday they find their true love. The list of contradiction is endless. Of course I'm not talking about everyone here. I'm just talking about examples of the many weird things we see in this life.

My biggest trouble might be not fulfilling my dreams, while others' big troubles might be getting killed while sleeping at night by a bomb. It's a huge difference but at the end both seem to be the worst fear for each of us.

Humans…they are the weirdest creatures on this planet, don't you think?! We see the solution for our happiness right in front of us and still choose not to take it! I think that's a stupidity that most people including myself have fallen in.

If we are just to accept…acceptance is a very strong word. It’s very hard for a lot of us. We just can't do it although it's the easiest thing to do. It's a very natural thing inside us that we might have forgotten about it along time ago, when all the problems started. If we could just accept the things we have and look at the bright sides of things we will be happy. If we could just accept the others as they are we will not end up fighting over stupid things. I think another word for acceptance is open-mindness.

Some people think that being open minded is just to do all the weird things in this world or accept crazy ideas. But how can someone be open-minded if he or she can't even accept him/herself or accept others?! We have to learn to accept each other. We have to be open to the fact that there are millions of people out there who have a different life style and different ways and cultures than ours. No one is better than the other. We simply have different ways of doing things. Why is it that we have to change ourselves so others accept us?! Why do we have to be the same??

I will never change it unless if I wanted to. I've learned to accept others as they are even if what they do seems to be weird or pointless to me, because who am I to judge them or say they have to change. So people out there, please learn to accept.