February 13, 2011

In my living room –again- with my parents 12:37 AM on the 13th of February 2011, still in my outfits of an outing with my friends. We wanted to celebrate Egypt’s freedom together. It’s the first day after Mubarak resigned. We all feel free. We all feel we can breathe even though we were not paying much attention to the fact that we actually were not breathing.

Having my laptop opened on the “face book” home page tracing and following up on what each friend post; photos, videos, cartoons, news, statuses, etc. Every second I see a new post from some friend that triggers me to check what that thing says.

TV at the other end of the living room, TV’s remote control in mum’s hands switching from one program to another; each program with different guests and different or same messages to audience.

Everywhere I could see eyes smiling and happy souls. In house and in the streets; people I know and those I don’t, seemed to be my friends with all the differences between me and them. Went out in the morning and felt flying instead of walking on the ground or in my car.

Saw people cleaning the “Tahrir” Square in TV and on face book. WOW..what a scene…How cooperative? How humble?

Everyone is talking about how can we develop Egypt now and make it a better place of living, a better country for tourism, a better environment for investors, how can we refresh our stock market, cleaning the streets, helping the poor, excelling in our jobs, etc.

Different opinions, analysis, outlooks and anticipations filling the air, even if no one is talking around. All of a sudden people became political and economical experts and that’s good, but we haven’t yet learnt how to run civilized conversations and accept different points of views and learn from each other or even build on each others’ concepts.

I shut down my laptop, made myself a simple dinner, ate it while watching Zuweil’s interview by Mahmoud Saad on “Masr Ennarhda” TV show. Zuweil was talking about the need for a “Scientific Revolution”. For me it was convincing, motivational and inspirational. It made me think of other new things and stimulated hidden corners in my brain to think.

I finished my dinner, brushed my teeth, said good night to my parents and went to bed.

It took some more time to fall asleep in bed. I was thinking “When will City Stars start working again?", “Will stores be still on sale?”,”Where will I go out tomorrow?”, “I want to buy a new mobile”, “Will we receive our salary increase this year and how much would it be?”, “What will I do in summer?”, “When will I take my vacation?”, “I have no one to celebrate the Valentine’s with”, “Tomorrow I shall think of something to do to add value to Egypt”…

"Surely celebration was not big though. Why would it be to me anyway? ...I did nothing"

Good night God, Take care of my soul while I’m sleeping. Give me a chance tomorrow to be a better person.