Shadows

People keep walking in and out from my life… It’s really easy to enter someone’s life and leave it after a while whether you wanted it or not… Some left really quickly… and others stayed for longer periods… All I can remember now are some memories… Though I tried hard to erase all my memories… I found myself always surrounded by their Shadows… searching for the light and comforting myself with the company… the fake company that exists only in my mind… I’m afraid of opening my eyes… I sometimes ask myself how this will end and whose next turn… and always silence is the result… and time is the answer… Yes… I am living in the memories I’ve been running from… I’m living in my shell with some shades from the past… the past which I am forgetting… and missing.

Mena Mostafa

Deep Oceans

Most of the times the surface is calm… reflecting the warmth of the sun… and the light of the moon…Diving to more depths, you can see coral reefs… fishes of different types… and finally sand… It carries boats… and reacts to the wind… it is peaceful… and rarely wild and frightful… We’re very much like it… We’re layers with minds and feelings… and the deeper we dive into, the more insightful we understand self… others and life… Exploring the deepness is not easy… it takes courage and time… Some people lose their lives in this journey before learning… some get lost… and few reach the bottom and might or might not come back to the surface with experience… In all cases during this expedition, they change and influence others with their changes… The thing is one might not be able to specify how deep they are from the surface or how far they are from the shore… they might jump from the bottom to the surface or drift from the shore in no time causing others lose track of them and to re-evaluate the distances and gaps separating them… We’re difficult to understand and we change frequently… We’re vast and Deep Oceans.

Mena Mostafa

Mirage

Sometimes we get obsessed by a certain idea to the extent of seeing nothing or believing in nothing but this sole idea… When one succeeds and reaches what he was seeking, people call him persistent and patient… On the contrary, when he fails, people call him a… loser… and he is perceived as a stupid person… Sometimes when we awaken from the dreams we live for we discover that we lost our lives following nothing… we discover that we were just chasing illusions… and at that moment we might think that we lost everything… that the time we lost was for nothing… and thus we found ourselves faced by two options… either to give up and completely lose hope or to start following a new dream hoping things will change… Usually we are not sure about what we see or what we pursue till we get closer and keep getting closer till we discover that it is just another Mirage!

Mena Mostafa