Life, or something like it !!

A glance on the life of the Palestinian people 

        

        What is your idea about a life-threatening situation ? Have you ever imagined how your life will end ?

Please don't frown, this article is not what it sounds like, it's an invitation for you to take a close look on the life of the Palestinian people.

         Going to the supermarket across the street may sound a daily causal activity that doesn't worth mentioning, but in my country, you may come back alive or you may not !! Going to work in my country is also a journey swished with danger and death, specialty if there is a check point on the road, you will be lucky if you arrived on time ALIVE !! Maybe my words seem far away from reality, try to do the following to understand me: pick an action- drama movie full of chasing, tension and gun-shooting, turn of the light, turn the voice up so you can't here anything else, watch the movie ALONE and imagine that you are part of it, try to fell the fear, the chaos and  the misery, i don't think you van hold on more than 15 minutes because the situation is way more than you can bear, this is how live our life everyday. We don't fear death, it's our companion in life, our mercy and our victory. Martyr is an honor and an endless glory, not the end of life.

              We don't fear death, we hate the feeling of losing someone we love, we hate that life- sucking moment when we hear that someone's friend, brother, father, sister or neighbor is killed. At that moment, the spacious world seems like a very small- suffocating box and life feels priceless, even  if the Martyred in not related to you , you eventually feel the same pain and death stands on the street corner of the Martyred's house apologizing to us for its blindness, death does not differentiate between youths and elders, babies and infants weather they were males or females.                

             We don't fear death , we fear life. A life that constantly threatening us to live it without our beloved ones. Mahmoud Darwish once said : " Death does not hurt the deceases, it hurt the living people " , and he also said : " and causes of death are many, among the is life pain " .....

           In other places of the world, sickness, aging, car accidents could be cause of death. In my country, death is the price we pay for our life , smiles and dreams !!!!!     

الفيسبوك ليس " دفتر مذكرات "

ملاحظة : هذه التدوينة هي ترجمة للتدوينة السابقة التي تحمل عنوان  Facebook is "NOT A DIARY "

               يعتبر الفيسبوك اكبر شبكة اتصال جماعي الكتروني مع ما يقارب حوالي 1.310.000.000 مشترك متصل شهريا حول العالم , وهذه النسبة تزيد سنويا بنسبة 15 %  . هذا يعني أن الفيسبوك اصبج جزء اساسي من الحياة اليومية لكل شخص. جميع وكالات الانباء والصحافة لديها صفحة على الفيسبوك بالاضافة الى المئات من الصفحات الرياضية والاقتصادية والتعليمية والطبية والثقافية والاجتماعية التي تبقيك على اطلاع كامل بكل ما يجري من حولك في كل مكان . ولكن يؤسفني القول ان الكثير من المستخدمين لا يدركون ان وسيلة الاتصال هذه هي عبارة عن بوابة مفتوحة على العالم كله , بل يتعاملون معها كدفتر ملاحظات او مذكرات. دعوني أوضح كيف ذلك ؟؟؟

لا يمكنك أن تنشر كل شيء على الفيسبوك !!

                 " صحيت من النوم قبل شوي وكسلانة كتير , حدا يفطر عني " !!!! هذا شيء لا يمكنك نشره على الفيسبوك , يمكنك قوله لأحد اخوتك او اي فرد من عائلتك , لان من يشاهد هذا المنشور ليس معنيا حقا ان كنت تناولت فطورك ام لا !! هذا مثال واحد من عديد من المشورات التي أقرؤها كل يوم والتي في غالبها لا معنى لها "فارغة" . حاول ان تبدأ يومك بنشر فكرة مفيدة أو نصيحة أ حتى بعبارة "صباح الخير جميعا" . الفيسبةك يطلب منك أن تنشر ما يدور في بالك وليس أن تنشر كل شيء يدور في بالك !! الفرق كبير بين الفكرتين .

خاصية الخرائط ليست موجودة لكي تخبر العالم أنك موجود في منزلك !!

             خلال تصفحك للفيسبوك قد تمر بمنشور كهذا " أشعر بالملل " مع خريطة تشير الى ان المستخدم في غرفته !!! حسنا, جرب الشرفة أو شاهد التلفاز واذا شعرت بتحسن فذلك عظيم ولكن رجاءا لا تستخدم خاصية الخرائط بعد 10 دقائق لتخبر العالم انك تشعر بالسعادة وانك في غرفة الجلوس .. استغل خاصية الخرائط عندما تكون في مكان مميز لا تذهب اليه في العادة كوجودك في المطار مثلا لوداع او استقبال احدهم , او وجودك في مدينة او منطقة سياحية تذهب اليها للمرة الاولى .

كن منصفا بحق كاميرا هاتفك الخليوي ..

  

                "شو رأيكم ؟؟ أكيد حلو :) " !!!!! حاول أن تكون الصور التي تنشرها  أهم وأكبر من تصوير اشياء بسيطة كهذه لتبقى منشوراتك محط اهتمام اصدقائك على الفيسبوك . لماذا لا تحاول أن تلتقط صورة لشروق أو غروب الشمس مثلا وان ترفقها بكلمات بسيطة , تلك لحظات جميلة جدا من الطبيعة قد تلاقي اعجابا واهتماما من اصدقائك . هناك العديد من الاشياء المميزة التي تحيط بك تستحق ان توثقها بصورة لتشاركها وتتذكرها , وحتى لو كان التصوير من هاتفك الخليوي مجرد هواية بالنسبة لك , فان هذا ما ما يجعلها مميزة اكثر ,أظهر احترافيتك وابداعك من خلال اضفاء بعض المؤثرات عليها وستكون مميزة.

              سلوك اخر قد يكون مزعج لبعضهم وهو نشر صور للطعام والمائدة باستمرار , اذا كنت تريد مشاركة ما تاكله مع اصدقائك اجعل الصورة مميزة بأن تكون لنوع من الاطباق لا تأكلها بالعادة وارفق الصورة مع الوصفة , هذا يجعل منها صورة تستحق النشر والمشاركة .

مشاركة المنشورات ليست سباق !!

                لست مضطرا ان تشارك اصقائك كل يوم من 5-10 منشورات , صدقني الموضوع ليس سباقا !! حاول أن تكون منشوراتك مفيدة وذات معنى وملفتة للنظر بشكل ايجابي يحبب اصدقائك بها وتدفعهم دائما لانتظارها . انشر ارائك وافكارك بشكل يستفيد منه الاخرون , شاركهم بمشكلة تستحق النقاش أو دعاء أو اية كريمة أو حكمة , كن انتقائيا الموضوع يتعلق بنوعية ما تنشره وليس كمية ما تنشره ,,,

تنتهي حريتك عندما تبدأ حرية الاخرين ..

                 كما تؤمن بأن جميع منشوراتك مهمة وجميلة , فان هذا ما يعتقده الاخرون ايضا بما يخص منشوراتهم ولكن لا يمكنك ان تجبرهم على الاعجاب بها , تختلف اذواق الناس في كل شيء . بمعنى اخر , حاول أن لا تشركهم دائما بصورك ومنشوراتك (tag) باستمرار ولا تحرجهم للاعجاب بها , حتى لو كانو اصدقائك كما ذكرت سابقا : الناس لديهم اذواق مختلفة. ولكن في نفس الوقت انا لا أقول أن لا تستفيد من خاصية ال (tag) ابدا , يمكنك اشراكهم في صورة معينة او منشور اذا كان هناك مناسبة مميزة او حدث او ذكرى تجمعك بهم, هذه ستكون لفتة منك لتخبرهم انك لا تنساهم ولا زلت تتذكرهم .

                الفيسبوك اليوم بكل بساطة يضع العالم بين ايدينا ويقرب بين الجميع مهما كانت المسافات بينهم قريبة او بعيدة , وعلى الرغم من اننا نستمتع كثيرا باستخدامه , الا اننا نفوت الكثير من الاستفادة و المعرفة لاننا نستخدمه بشكل تقليدي وعادي هو لا يتعدى كونه وسيلة للتسلية وتمضية الوق بالنتسبة للكثيرين !! 

Facebook is " NOT A DIARY "

P.S : Facebook is NOT A DIARY 

           

          Facebook is the largest communication net work social media with over 1,310,000,000 monthly active FB users world wide,which is a 15% increase year over year. It means that it became essential part of everyone's daily life. Almost every News or press Agency has a page on FB, in addition to hundreds of sports, talk shows, economical, educational, cultural and medical pages which keeps you update to everything happening everywhere . But i'm sorry to say that a lot of people don't realize that this mean of communication is an opened gate to the world, it's more like a diary or a note book for them. Let me explain how ???

You can't post EVERYTHING on Facebook !!!

            " I just woke up and feeling lazy, could you have my breakfast instead of me " ,, for God's sake this is not a status you can post on FB , it's something you can say to your mom or anyone of your family , people on FB actually don't really care if you had your breakfast or not !! That's an example out of tens meaningless status i read daily. Try to start your day by posting a useful thought or an advice that matter, be more selective and creative . It says " What's on your mind ? " NOT " post everything  crosses your mind !!! 

Maps not for indicating your location at your HOUSE !!!

             "Feeling bored at my room" , are you serious ??? Well that's too bad because no one can do anything about it, try the balcony or check out the TV, if you felt better that's great, but please don't use maps after 10 minutes and post on Facebook that you are at the balcony feeling better !!! Use Maps to share with your friends interesting places that you have been to, Share exciting  adventures to encourage people to visit those places . 

Be fair to your cellphone CAMERA ..

 " This is my new shoes, i just bought it " 

   

    

   

              Oh please shoot me !! Do you think ALL  friends an FB care if you bought  a new shoes or not, beside you are not the first or the last person who buys shoes, it's a normal activity and people do it everyday.

Why don't you  try to capture a photo for the sunset or the sunrise for example with a few sweet words from you, that would be a beautiful moment to share.There are a lot of interesting things around you worth to turn on your cellphone camera  to  memorize and share. Even if you are an amateur photographer, with a suitable shot , a few filters and effects , the photo will be distinctive and professional

         Another annoying activity that goes under this tittle is posting  food photos all the time, " this is what we are having for dinner, this my lunch, a small snack before studying, midnight sandwich plz join me " !!! whats wrong with people ?? If you really want to share what you are eating, let it be a strange meal  you are trying for the first time and enclose the recipe, now that's worth publishing on Facebook. 

Sharing posts is not A RACE !!

   

           You don't have to share 5-10 posts everyday on Facebook, it's really not a race. Try to make your posts more beneficial , useful and eye catching. Write about important topics, talk about a problem that interest people and discuss it with them, share a link about a recent new invention ,BE SELECTIVE .It's not HOW many times you post a day, it's about WHAT you post.

Your freedom ends where others' start ,,

           As you believe that your posts , links and photos are important , so is others . But you can't force them to like it , people have different tastes in everything. Try not to TAG friends in all your photos or status all the time. Don't embarrass  them to like your posts by sending them messages to do that . you can tag them when there is an occasion that involve all of them , that would be a nice gesture of you to show them that you care and remember :)

   

          Facebook puts the worlds in our hands. Although we are enjoy using it, yet it will be more useful and joyful if we knew how to use it. We are missing a lot of  knowledge and excitement by using it traditionally ....  

  

You, as of now, are someone else!

Mahmoud Darwish

                 Mahmoud Darwish (March 13 1941 - 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and Excel. He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry. "

            Darishw published thirty volumes of poetry and and eight books of prose. On 1 May, 1965 when the young Darwish read his poem “Bitaqat huwiyya” (Identity Card) to a crowd in a Nazareth movie house, there was an uproarious reaction. Within days the poem had spread throughout the country and the Arab world. Published in his second volume "Leaves of Olives" (Haifa 1964), the six stanzas of the poem repeat the cry “Write down: I am an Arab".

  

              As a tribute to this great poet,  the Palestinian people established a museum named  "Museum of Mahmoud Darwish " in Ramallah. The structure of the museum is featured by simplicity, humility, home, land, village, love, freedom, dream, fight, survival , realism, hope, ambition, nostalgia, identity, peace, of Mahmoud Darwish's character. The foundation of this museum aims to show some of the memorabilia of the deceased manuscripts and private collections, it also has a showroom and a video library of his works and collections.  

                   Here are some photos from inside and outside of the Museum :

  

             Darwish's poetry is characterized by its simplicity of the formation with deep and complex meanings. In other words, when you read a poem of Darwish's poetry, you imagine that it is easy for anyone to write a similar one, but when you read it over and over again, you will find yourself drowning in a deep ocean of meanings, emotions, metaphors and allegories. Once you read a poem for Darwish, you lose your senses inside it, and you travel through its words to the poet's world.

              Last but not least, i translated a few verses of one of his poems entitled "You, as of now, are someone else! " :

 " Was it inevitable for us to fall from such heights, and see our blood on our hands… for us to realize that we are no angels…

 as we used to think?

Such liars were we when we said: We are exceptional !

To believe yourself is much worse than lying to someone else!

To be friendly with those who hate us, and ruthless to those who love us – this is the inferiority of the conceited,

and the arrogance of the grubby  !

Oh past, do not change us… the further away we move from you!

 Oh future: do not ask us: who are you?

 And what do you want from me?

 We too have no clue.

Oh present, bear with us a little, we are no more than dreary passers by..!

Identity is our legacy and not our inheritance;

our invention and not our memory.

 Identity

is the ruin of the mirror that we should break as soon as we like our image!! "