Language

Every day we chat and talk with each other in different topics varying between daily situations we face… problems we have… cases we believe in or fight for… criticizing people… worshipping the past… looking for and fearing from the future… cursing some circumstances… wondering about how better we can make our lives… And when we talk… we use many languages other than English, Arabic… French or so… we talk personal… emotional… technical… professional… We might understand each other and we might not… Sometimes, others might perceive what you say as incomprehensive symbols or might not taste the color of your feelings or understand the meaning of your words… but we keep communicating… just to be together as we share places and moments… and we have to talk… Most of the times, I feel I talk a foreign language that the world can’t understand and that I can’t also understand what the world around me is saying… The language I miss the most is the language I still couldn’t find someone who can understand and share with me… the language I only to talk to myself with… It’s the language of life… my life Language.

Mena Mostafa

Circular Squares

You may find it stupid to ask yourself or others how does a circular square look like? But in today’s world with all the contradictions we have around… and with all the situations we face daily … I find it kind of normal to wonder about such a subject… specially that it became very hard to differentiate between the white and the black… the truth and the lie… and of course between a shape and another… In some situations we can’t even differentiate between the live and the dead… light and darkness… And sometimes, when we meet people, we are not sure whether they are actual people or if they are shadows of them or maybe they are pillars as real people don’t exist anymore! Everything became so messy so that you no longer know your identity… your belonging and whether you are where you think you are or somewhere else!
Again, the question remains unanswered… how does a circular square look like? Can it be some kind of a triangular parallelogram for instance?! Or is it just like other Circular Squares?!

Mena Mostafa

Lesson

It’s after big events and major changes in your life that you start thinking or maybe focusing on points that you’ve never had in mind… or maybe that were somewhere there waiting for the time to reveal themselves… At such moments, you start thinking about the purpose of your life and the things that you’ve learned… and lately…
I learned that no one can help you except yourself…
I learned that you can talk but others are not obligated to listen…
I learned that happiness doesn’t exist but you can be self satisfied or content if you want to…
I learned that there is always light somewhere… and that you should seek it…
I learned that fearing from the past and worrying about the future is silly because things change and you change…
I learned that you should experience pain to appreciate tenderness…
I learned that not everything you want is good for you…
I learned that you might be unique but many other people think and feel the same as you do…
I learned that friends are a real gift from God…
I learned that even if you think you are alone, you are not…
I learned that you are there to help someone, and that someone exists somewhere to help you… and that you are there because someone needs you…
I learned that patience is a valuable virtue that many people don’t have…
I learned that every single thing that happens to you has a purpose that you’ll understand at the designated time…
I learned that till you die, there is a place for you on earth…
And the biggest Lesson of all is that we live to die, so we should make sure we’ll die decently.

Mena Mostafa