Every society and culture is plagued with pretenses, but I must say Middle Easterners top the cake. Here in America I grew up with the " Did you hear about the Robinsons" Basically every one is worried about keeping up appearances " OK I get it". I never lived my life before preoccupied with what people would think of me. I worried about what I thought of myself, and if I am happy with the choices I am making. Egyptians on the other hand seem as if they live their whole life and make all their decisions according to how it will be percieved by the society/class they live in its freaking annoying.
Today I made a comment to an old friend of mines from HS on facebook and my husband had a cow he was worried about how it would be precieved by his fam members on my friends list.
I told my husband the other day that I was struggeling with my decisions to wear hijab and he had another cow. Instead of giving me the religious value of wearing it he focused on the superficial.
people are so focused on the superficial that everyone is slowly rotting on the inside. They should focuse some of that negative energy on guarding their tongues and actions.
I did'nt give a damn about the Robinsons and I dont give a damn about the Mahmouds, Mahmoudies, or any other Moody.
No offense to any of the above mentioned surnames I just had to get this out (lol).
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heeheh you got it out and I got a laugh in the process!!!! :P LOL
ReplyDeleteMahmoudies ....hehehehe
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