Seriously, we as Egyptians love our country, we also love to hate it. I know one thing for sure I either hate Egypt or I just hate the Egyptians as a people.
I understand that in general people as individuals are more or less ok but the way we all collectively act just sickens me.
One thing I hate that Egyptians do and I know I do is complain. We know everything that is wrong and we'll complain about it but no we can't actually do anything about it.
Also I like almost any other Egyptian can't wait to leave this country. We just live this illusion that everything is so much better abroad and we can't change our country. We can't change ourselves either. But as soon as we set foot outside we can change.
I know that's how I feel. For one I feel like I will become a better Muslim once I leave. Being a practicing Muslim abroad I feel is holding on to your identity and its something you put your heart into. Here it just seems so monotonous. But that's not it the environment is just not encouraging. The people you see around you that would be labeled as devout usually disgust me. The problem mostly for me is in how they dress then that they expect a certain treatment, which people give, and then worst of all is how they think. Heck I never really planned on growing my beard but boy let it go for a week and suddenly you might get called sheikh, that was enough for me to shave when I got home.
What really kills me and saddens me is the number of these people are increasing. People that really don't understand much of the outside world but are willing to take a stance and also generally perceive everyone as a non believer. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised but watching the sms bar of a religious channel my father was watching, someone was still calling for the boycott of Danish products, for I guess the whole collective population insulted the Prophet (SAAS). We also should boycott Mongolia their ancestors basically routed the Islamic world well not SO long ago. I mean come on what are we boycotting? The best intelligent toys ever and milk. Well probably those who are calling for this continued boycott probably make their own cheese. This rant is going no where. And I have already said that I don't really believe in boycotting.
Its also not just me though but a few people are of the opinion that Cairo is quite a beautiful city. When its empty, which means no Egyptians. And they don't really all go to sleep and that. Ok I am typing at the 2:30 AM but then I had coffee a little too late. For everyone else this is just maybe close to bedtime.
For those few that I know have an exam tomorrow and probably just passed out with exauhtion I wish you the best of luck.
Bedtime.
Someday I'll learn to write not rant.
Of course maybe I should try breaking these posts up. And Saving drafts. And reading what I wrote. One of the worst things abot me is I hate reading what I write. So maybe I should slightly change this title to raw zid and zee. Or zid and zee undercooked. Why am I thinking about carrots? Next it will be bunnies that are alergic to carrots. Then those will become an endangered species. But it won't be cellphones that caused it this time.
Where did my rant go?
Bedtime?
See we collectively as a people and me personally will just go on complain about everthing and anything and will just keep on talking.
Bedtime.
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