Your Egypt

[hebostic]

I always wonder and ask many people about Egypt, what so special about it , that years ago and until now people likle coming to egypt, and generations after generations are some of them are intrested in egypt and its history, that we are already in the 21th century which people are more intrestd in modern life or technolgy, but still there are still young people who wants to learn more about the deep history, ( i am not saying it unimportant or its boring, as i am aslo intrested in it ) but there are so many otehr s country aslo have a very rich history. first of all i am half egyptian and half indian and i love egypt very much , and i use it live here as my country or ist where i grown up and my friends and family are here, but to know the real value of egypt, is which i learned its magic from my forign friends or when i am travelling away to anotehr counrty as tourist or thnking to settle a job tehre and live tehre, there is something alwasy inside of me wanting to go back, frist i always say maybe ist a normal feeling beacuse ofcourse its my country , and i miss it and my friends too, but what i realize that ist not teh main reason which wanted me to go back, so lets get tomy point, is that egypt as what are teh egyptian calling it " THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD" i use to think everyone will make teh same to their own country, and i alwasy think as also like many of otehr egyptians that tehre is no life here, and its a poor country, no money , no sysytem, no human right, and polluted, crowded, iggnorant, and no future carrer, or at least u have to be something big to have agood postion or to be a forigner so u can live a nice life here, so i alwsya dreamed of travelling another cleaner country, with more organized civilized society and etc, reasons, andwhenevr i meet a forigner who came jsut for a few dasy they fall in love with egypt, beside teh many bad experience they had and teh advantages of egyptian s who are trying to take from forigners, still they alwasy i am lucky that i am leaving here and tehre is something special about egypt, even though if egypt has 60% bad things or advantages init , but still ther is magic in it, and i alwasy wonder, how come , example to my forigners friends who i feel they are teh one who is lucky, that they are leaving in australia, spain, london( which my brotehrs lives tehre), germany, italy, jordan, many others countries which i wish to live there instead of living here, even ifist a western country or arab country, and i alwasy say if foriehnes think beacuse if it about hospitality, then ist normal that any forigners in asai or arab country and some other western coutry arefreindl;y with froidners and welcome them and try to help them, and about night life still i went to otehrs coutries whioch i lieks their night life and tehy have more freedom in everything, instead of here, people willalwasy stare at u as u r aAlien, or u are walking naked in steet even if u are wearing a respectful clothes, and if ist about cultue, ther are so many otehr coutries haveing so many beautiful intresting cultures,which amzaes me, Spain, india, china, japan, rusiaa, phalestine, israel, latin countrie s and turkey are alwasy teh coutries which amazes me from theri history, cultures, sighseeing, and otehrs reasons, so i walwsy feel there are so many otehr countires are better tahn egypt, as if u r comparing about shram , beaches then i believe ist isnt teh only beach which has a very nice sightseing becasue i think aslo otehr countries are havingthe same level or maybe better also in wether. and i went to otehr coutires which i was amazed of tehir frienly attitude, and cleanliness of theri self and strteets and tehir honesty where they dont take advantage of forigners or female tourist, but as tehr are many advantages in otehr counrty i tried givingup living in egypt and tried to lok for a country which i like to live there ofocourse i didnt travel alot, but atleast i knew egypt value when i travel a few countries, beasides many adaventages of the other conutry i found out their is no spirit, in it even if u are having great carrer or night life, or shopping, but still no spirit and tehre is somthing magically spiritual in egypt which even teh otehr country are liek paradise, still i ratehr live in egypt in teh polluted, crowded, country , ofcourse i am talking about teh palces where amany of local egyptian s live, not liek rich or forigners in maadi, or high social places, where ofcourse u cant feel teh crowded or how hard life ther to survive in noisy places, i traveled to dubai and malaysia, where i was thinking of leaving there but then i realized i can be happy about my work, the country , but i was lonly, ( i am talking about my personal feelings, and aslo my friends who lives in europe or some other countries had teh same feelings, so i am notsaying everyone will feel the same) butstill i feel emptiness and lonliness, and i wante dto go back to egypt even i had new freinds tehre, and new life style, but i realzed i was like the saying of peopel , is taht i am alike fish , if went out of egypt is liek a fish out of water and cant survive,as also , i aheb amreican sweet friend she says she will give her career, whcihshe is wroking as finacial manager ina co, and she is happy with her career, but when she came egypt, she said she will go back and give up her life tehre and come live here any job, here,, and same to otehr forigners i knew too, well i know i talked alot but , atthe end i love egypt even there are other countries whcih have alot more advantages than here but still ist has magic in it, thank u who survived and didnt got bored reading until reach the end of the story.

[Monica]

I only had a chance to read this text today hebostic..shame on me!!!
What a great piece you wrote!!
Thank you girl!!
I love you!

[ammorah525]

Yaaah ya hebostic...i've lil add
Let me tell the people -who see the empty part of the glass- that:” Egypt is really OM EL DONYA (the Mother of the World).”
Actually, we’ve treasures that we can’t see. Sorry to call the people who want to travel to another country that they are blind, even if they have excellent eyesight. From this place let us invite them to open their eyes and watch The Magic you talked about. We also can ask them can’t you see the German and French mad love and curiosity of Egypt? And before them the Armenian and Greek ones who left Greece and lived in the Egyptian towns, especially in Alexandria. Here in Suez, we still have Greek families. One of them was called Ms. Follah. She was very famous coz she refused to leave Suez even in the 1967 war and till the victory of 1973. At that time Suez was like a town of ghosts and craws with very few civilians and the other persons were from the army and so on, Ms. Follah was between them. Till a few years ago she was famous for going through Suez streets and buying a fresh bunch of flowers everyday, while she was so old she used to put the make up. I think she died as she doesn’t buy the flowers or even wander in the Street. I think she loved Egypt more than a lot of people we know.
From Follah’s story I got something that I apply to my life. That is, when I go out, I intend to watch the streets with its buildings, people, shops...etc. especially when I visit Cairo or Alexandria with the old buildings. I can smell the scent of this beautiful country, though I didn’t visit other countries. There is something seizing me to here. I’m not wishing to leave forever.
I’ve another thing to talk about and want you to share me your thought about it. The persons who know Egypt very well realize that Egypt is a very rich country. Very rich with everything; human power and labor and the materials. Rich with ideas and creative people who think they can’t succeed here and will find themselves abroad. Rich with the treasures in Sinai, the Western desert and the two very rich Red Sea. We can make a good use of all these treasures and also our monuments and if we reopened the door for all those youth to make project they will create and encourage them, we will move forward so soon.
I know it was a long reply my dear but I think u opened a nonstop subject and I think we’ll talk about it again.

[cebddd]

I too just read this, hebostic, and find your comments very interesting. As an American, who has a Love/hate relationship with her country . . . where there is lots to love and a few big,annoying things to hate (haha - take your pick which I'm talking about), I too think about making a change in my life . . . getting out of the "rat race" . . . and going somewhere to experience the "magic". I guess it is never too late to think about doing this. I have an offer of early retirement from my company which would dump me out at the end of June 2005. I don't really have enough to "retire" on, so would have to work still . . . but where to work? what to do? change career? look for job in Cairo? sell up and ship my cats to Egypt? I've got a lot to think about in the next few months . . . not to mention a potential relationship, yikes, that keeps lurking. But sometimes, with people like me who don't always believe in "magic", it can be hard to yield. I think I've been working too much and, particularly now with travelling every week. This blocks out all the good things in life as you narrow your focus to just getting ready to fly out at the beginning of the week and flying home at the end, doing what you can on weekends, before starting all over again. This just reinforces my desire to leave this company . . . but can I make it till June 2005? Or, maybe, I should say . . . Feb 2005 insha'allah. . . my next trip to Egypt which should break up the agony! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Monica]

cebddd...february is a great month to start feeling the magic... :roll: (I was born in feb.. :wink: )
Wish you the most extraordinary journey girl!!
cebddd wrote: I too just read this, hebostic, and find your comments very interesting. As an American, who has a Love/hate relationship with her country . . . where there is lots to love and a few big,annoying things to hate (haha - take your pick which I'm talking about), I too think about making a change in my life . . . getting out of the "rat race" . . . and going somewhere to experience the "magic". I guess it is never too late to think about doing this. I have an offer of early retirement from my company which would dump me out at the end of June 2005. I don't really have enough to "retire" on, so would have to work still . . . but where to work? what to do? change career? look for job in Cairo? sell up and ship my cats to Egypt? I've got a lot to think about in the next few months . . . not to mention a potential relationship, yikes, that keeps lurking. But sometimes, with people like me who don't always believe in "magic", it can be hard to yield. I think I've been working too much and, particularly now with travelling every week. This blocks out all the good things in life as you narrow your focus to just getting ready to fly out at the beginning of the week and flying home at the end, doing what you can on weekends, before starting all over again. This just reinforces my desire to leave this company . . . but can I make it till June 2005? Or, maybe, I should say . . . Feb 2005 insha'allah. . . my next trip to Egypt which should break up the agony! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[cebddd]

Ya, shokran, i think february will be my next lucky month! outside of my birthday month of May . . . :)

Monica wrote: cebddd...february is a great month to start feeling the magic... :roll: (I was born in feb.. :wink: )
Wish you the most extraordinary journey girl!!
cebddd wrote: I say . . . Feb 2005 insha'allah. . . my next trip to Egypt which should break up the agony! :lol: :lol: :lol: