Assalamualikm Wa Rahmato Allah Wa Barakatoh =D
My dear tagged/untagged/stalking/fady-awi-gedan reader,May Allah's blessings be upon you all..Happy Eid and here I'm back again to Facebook after a heartbreaking leave (was having twitter-addiction troubles, and eventually gat branded as a first class internet addict).
The reason I'm writing this,3ala balata, is to pass on this teeny weeny advice to all my lovelies on Facebook. Now since life isn't that sweet and cheerful, people don't do what they do outta mere good will. They do it for a good objective reason. My reason for writing this is :to gain good deeds off your nuchae (for those of you who suck at anatomy,nuchae is non but your 'afaa'=the back of your neck. In other highly scientific words, "A5od hasanat 3la afaqom" just like what @Heba Sabry, my good ole friend would blurt out frankly.)
Be Grateful.
A seemingly highly-interesting eye-catching topic that you have most probably stumbled upon no less than seventeen hundred times in the past memorable years of your life.
I'm not here to preach or to ask you to count your blessings. I’m here to remind myself and you too of what we, as highly involved and life-engrossed medical and non-medical students have long been oblivious to.
#1 Ever woke up one sunny day and took a look at the mirror to admire your beautiful face, only to shockingly realize that you have grown a cheerful rosy pimple overnight? Yeah I can see you grimacing at the screen. It has happened to all of us yo! You’d dress up and go to college, avoiding every other creature as if you’ve caught a cootie “an overnight-grown new nose”
Well you’d better hit Dept#8 at our cozy Kasr Al Aini hospital. It’s the Burns dept, and well people there have developed burns averaging from second to sixth degree burns, those luckiest develop BOILS all over the body…they have no mirrors in that dept by the way..It’s enough with the physical pain, they needn’t a reminder of how ugly they’ve turned. Most of those patients were saved outta burning buildings..most of them actually are CHILDREN! Yeah..they’d live the rest of their lives bearing gruesome scars, most prolly being hated by their own family, and repelled by their peers. So while your pink zit takes the time to fade away, you’d better take longer to thank Allah for saving you the pain, the disfigurement and the repelling attitude.
#2 Ever came across Fb,and realized in despair that you can’t find Alaa Hijazi? Well,you’d better be grateful now that I’m here AND addressing you kman,a5er 7alawa ya3ni!
#3 Been told off by your parents? I mean ever been actually thanked by them? :D yeah it happens like once every millennium that parents remember how blessed they are to have such a smart beautiful social friendly helpful dexterous kind smart (did I just mention that before?) kid like myself. But I mean really ever been told off BADLY by one of your parents? Or yet better ,both of them? Yeah that’s one hell of a blessing in disguise! To actually have someone who cares enough to burn up their stores of glycogen, get their neurons firing like mad, and address your majesty for your wrongdoing is a real blessing. After the fuming–up phase you’ll realize that was it not for these peeps, you’d have prolly strayed faaaar away from where you’re right now, gat yourself mixed up with some shits, and ended up locked up somewhere.
#4 Stumbled upon yourself at exam time? Well,no need to comprehend further. Guess you can leap back in memory to the most astounding third year microbiology exam, and get your hands aching in praying these times won’t have to pass again (for a while),simply cause you’re done with third year and most importantly cause your finals are still some peachy eight or ten months ahead. that’s a a very good blessing by the way.
#5 Ever been mislead into an act,and then got slammed back to reality RIGHT before screwing up big time? Like for instance, you make friends with this girl(m3aya :D),and right before she convinces you of stealing off our parents, you realize you’re way off the right track, and quit doing the act right away? Well you’d better be grateful! Millions of teenagers all around the world get driven by peer-pressure into smoking crack and having illegal sex. They end up as dead/addicts/murderers/medstudents. So everytime you remember that you’ve been snatched right at the zero hour…prostrate in gratitude.
#6 Done/Still doing a wrong act? Something that you know is haram or that won’t summon Allah’s pleasure..yet you still keep doing it over and over again? Heba Sabry would say “Afaya werem mel shetan”,note that every nuchae-related and relatable quote springs from Sabry. And yes Heba I hear you on this! Personally I have been into innumberable pits,in and out ,in and out..I’ve actually started to give up on me…why push so hard against temptations? Why not get deluded into the sweet-talking of Satan? Why stay up praying qiyyyam/Do some house chores/Help out your dad/Do the laundry/Go food-shopping? Why not go all easy and ‘maleable’ with the Y-chromosome bearers/otherwise commonly known as males? Why put up boundaries and not pass redlines. WHY get tamed by righteousness? Well the answer my friend is NOT blowing in the wind…It’s been here all the time, stark and clear..Yet our wrongheadedness and shortsightedness have very smartly blocked us off the apparent reason. You see my friend, We’re a bunch of humans who were destined to co-exist together on a small galaxy. Was it not for rules and regulations that tame us down, we’d have run wild..People raping your sisters, stealing your stuff and doing god-knows-what else. Maybe that’s a bit too malicious. I mean my not putting up with dad’s demeanor while ordering me to do something won’t obviously hurt no one. Well believe it or not it DOES hurt someone ,maybe your dad a little but it mainly affects YOU the most. Call it karma,call it jaza2 or whatever.But we, as adults are accountable for every bit of act we do. It all pays back in the end. Allah is NEVER forgetful. And He’s all rewarding..Don’t ever dare to forget that. We need God-forbidden things in life. They make us better...they make us humane.
#7 Got your younger sister ‘borrowing’ your most admirable pair of lime green sneakers, and ‘accidently’ greasing them while bicycling? The grease is all there shiny black and sticking its slime tongue at you in euphoria, and even if you rip your Converse apart, it will persist indefinitely…well you’d better be thankful you actually happen to have a SIBLING! A pain in the ass they stand, true..But still you’d better be thankful for their existence. These people are actually capable of loving you, caring for you and most importantly ‘lending’ you their most valuable things. Now whether this lending process happens in their presence or absence it doesn’t really matter…it’s just the fact that siblings, along with sibling-possessions co-exist peacefully in the room next to you. Its a such a zesty relief.
#8 Ever been so amazingly lucky to be actually SANE and ABLE to read these few lines of mine? Many out there have the bad luck of retinal detachment, or corneal ulcers, or yet worse, not having me on their friends list. Now you’d better be thankful that I give a care, and that I share what affects my life most, so you’d learn off my bruised, contused, lacerated nuchae. :D
The list is infinite. You add in whatever is counted as a blessing in your life. Write it down. Read it in the morning .And at night remember to stay up a lil longer, reflecting over these bounties and thanking Him.
“Be thankful, for whatever you grump about there’s someone out there, somewhere, dreaming of living a split of a second of your life.”
~Alaa Hijazi
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
~William A. Ward"
