i woke up this morning to a noise of a plane very nearby
i thought it was crashing.
for 3 seconds i was actually scared!
i thought what if mubarak had died and some taliban wanabe took over.
it's a good thing i have a flight scheduled next week huh?
maybe one should book a ticket once a month just in case we wana get out of this place.
one thing i do know for sure, things could be much worse than they are now.
though we get chritisised and made fun of by every foreigner who sets foot here, we may not realize how lucky we are to be able to walk down the street without being forced by law to dress in a certain way or act in a certain way.
we're lucky that women go to uni, work as judges, emabasadors and ministers MPs.
we're lucky that women are free to divorce their horrible husbands, free to work for a living.
we can watch TV and have all the luxuries that people have all over - at least the basics.
so what if it is a little gray, dirty. so what if men masturbale whenever they see a female walking down the road and so what that you could go to prison without being charged.
i think it's me trying to convince myself it ain't that bad.
i keep remembering husein fahmy telling ahmed el sakka in the film mafia when he was asked how come he loves egypt so much depsite of all the bad stuffz
he asked him: do you love your mom - the asnwer was yes of course
is your mother the most beautiful sexiest woman on earth - the answer is NO
but you still love your mum, huh?
sadly the only way to live here is to keep remembering this every second, at least that's what i apparently think.
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