Knives that cut

There are times when I wish I can just unleash that beast in me and give way to a surreal killing machine that eradicates scum off the face of this earth, then I realize that by doing so I would be degrading myself to the level of scum that think they are gods.

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I had the chance to visit a renowned nightclub in Beirut yesterday night, it was the first time I go into one of those flashy-pump-it-up-fake-away-venues and two of my doubts have been proven:

1. "Maybe it's because I am different in some ways that's why I can't have fun in these places"

Now I am sure that I do not fit in and I don't want to ever fit in these decadent gatherings of hollow and fake wannabe men and women. I judge on experience here, for what I experienced was intense from the moment I stepped into the venue: it's like cancer but it's in the looks, attitude, reflexes, gestures...

While I tried all evening to have fun with my friends and not give a damn about what's happening around, I felt that cancer all around: it's a young demented (the bad demented) people that's in the making and the worst is yet to come.

I am also sure that I can have fun wherever I may be, for I am what I am, naturally: authentic, genuine and unique. And I know that there are lots of people out there who are too, so I am hopeful for a cure for the cancer.

2. "I am not sure I can write/talk about the people who love these places, after all they can do whatever they want to do"

Hell yeah I can when I feel that "cancer" I felt yesterday. I imagine these people like the nice knives you find at the tables of Arabic restaurants: they're bright, shiny, fancy, and make the table set look beautiful and complete, but do they cut?

We need knives that cut!

Knives that are sharp, that can cut off the decaying skins of successive rotten generations' fruits and get to their core goodness, that can slice smoothly and make things happen, not just sit there, be beautiful, look fine with the fork and plate, and just nearly scrape the skin of anything good that might feed the body and soul of what we call our society.

No one obliged me to go to that place or any other like it.

Someone will tell me to fuck off and stay home if I do not like these places.

Everyone will just continue to do what they do and sit there, fake-it-all-away and just dance the night away, can't they?

No... not with what's at stake.

Now drink water -not that fake shitty vodka- while it lasts.

You Cannot

You cannot remain indifferent & be irresponsible facing all the atrocities that happen in our world daily:

1. You cannot throw half of your 20$-worth-platter when millions are starving and specifically someone in your neighborhood.
2. You cannot throw a can/paper/trash bag and leave it on the ground because you are in a hurry and missed the trash bin.
3. You cannot open the water tap for 5mns while brushing your teeth while millions have no access to drinking water / or have no teeth left for that matter.
4. You cannot buy more than you need, spend more than you earn or throw more than you give.
5. You cannot retreat to your safety bubble and think it will last forever, because it surely won't my friend.

I say "cannot" knowing that we are doing all of the above and more.
I surely am a long way from being the illuminated & the ultimate savior of the planet, I just write, am conscious of what is happening around me on all sides and feel responsible while trying to act no matter how insignificant any action I do might seem relatively to the vastness of the world.

What if, just imagine with me, every one of us does insignificant actions on a daily basis?
I say it will all build-up into something significant following this simple example:

(1 insignificant 10 kg monthly plastic collection

 + taken to the recycling plant)
x
100 households (as insignificant as my action)
=
1000Kg of plastic waste going to recycling

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It doesn't cost to be involved, to engage, to act, to live, to feel the wind on your face and the people around you, to have compassion, to be responsible and to be conscious.

It would be sad to have another species write one day: "... and due to their indifference and lack of responsibility, the humans got extinct."

The Earth is ours, the solution is us and the worse is yet to come.

Drink water... while it lasts.

Goodness On The Spot

I was coming back home the other day by car.

On one of bridges that I took, stood an old man with some bags, waving to the passerby, wishing someone would give him a lift.

He seemed really helpless.

Although I saw him from afar,

it took me 3 seconds to realize that I wanted to give him a lift,

but it was too late, since I was in the fast lane.

I decided to make a u-turn and pick him up.

While doing this action (that took nearly 30 seconds),

I thought of how I might have missed my chance in doing a good deed

and that I will arrive only to see that the man disappeared.

I wasn't wrong.

I arrived just in time to see another guy picking the old man up.

It felt as if we were racing for doing the good deed, it made me smile.

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Never think a good action twice.

If you feel it, do it on the spot or else you will lose your chance.