Only 12 days to go!

Only 12 days to go!
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My story - where it all started (part 1)

My story - where it all started (part 1)
Over the weekend, while sitting on my couch, in a beautiful city called Doha (located in Qatar) some 3363 nautical miles away from home (Johannesburg, South Africa), I recalled some incidents of my life that brought me to this point in my life. This thought, actually started a week ago when a friend played a song that I bought myself – a song I used to play often in my car when I arrived in Qatar, 2 years ago. I never knew my friend back then neither did I know the real meaning of the song, (an Arabic song, “MeshA’aref atghayar”), but I knew it was a sad song and it was so fitting at the time,...

No one ever claimed that happiness is sweet

No one ever claimed that happiness is sweet
"No one ever claimed that happiness is sweet". In fact some years ago, my day dreams took me on round tour of this very statement and helped me to find a ground breaking change in my life.I could never find a single reason why I should be unhappy considering I had a colossal energy draining few months. The incidents in the those months however could not be the reason for my unhappiness because even prior to their existence, I had felt a blank space in me. It was like I was an alien in my own life and so questioning myself made me realise that I am not unhappy. The next obvious question, then,...