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“Courage is a love affair with the unknown” Osho #wcharaf
Author: W
Wissam, Wesley, or simply W, is an educator, writer, entrepreneur, engineer, activist, ex-Imam, humanist, liberal thinker with interest and mediocre attempt at many takes of life. A modern confused Renaissance man, who uses doubt as a path for emancipation and science as a road towards enlightenment.
Children of the Tribe
“It is not Honorable for a woman to love anyone else except her husband! With this evil being among you, you yourself are not sure that this is your son!”
Paul Le Jeune, 17th century Jesuit missionary, lecturing a Montagnais Indian man about the dangers of the rampant infidelity he’d witnessed.
The man replied:
“You have no sense. You French people love only your own children; but we all love all the children of our tribe”.
Leacock 1981, p. 50
Self-Reliance
“self-reliance is a frequently used but very poor strategy for coping with life’s adversity. That’s because we are biologically “wired” to reach out for support when we’re stressed; it’s in our nature. Consider what a child does when awakened at night by a nightmare or thunderstorm. The child instinctively runs to a parent’s bed for help. The child clings to Mom or Dad and then, after a few moments of soothing, falls asleep in the parent’s arms. When this natural coping process is interrupted by parents who are physically or emotionally unavailable, it’s replaced by self-reliance and stoicism. As this independent child grows into adulthood, cigarettes or food or other substances become dependable companions, providing comfort consistently and reliably—but with the unfortunate side effects of disease, obesity, or worse. If a person like this tries to quit the addiction without learning to ask others for help, that person is unlikely to succeed. Living without this “friend” is just too frightening.”
Robert Maurer
One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
15 Things It Took Me 60 Years to Learn
Copied from Abdallah Bazzi’s Facebook post.
Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist. He is also famous for his humorous quotes about things he has learned over the years.
Today, we at Bright Side would like to share some of Dave Barry’s pearls of wisdom with you. We hope you enjoy these awesome quotes as much as we did.
1. Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.“
3. There is a very fine line between ”hobby” and “mental illness.”
4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
5. You should not confuse your career with your life.
6. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
7. Never lick a steak knife.
8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
10. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.
11. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that deep down inside we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
12. A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. Never fails.)
13. Your friends love you anyway.
14. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
15. Thought for the day: Men are like fine wine. They start out as grapes, and it’s up to women to stomp on them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
Interior design for bedrooms
Interior design for bedrooms:
1. Don’t forget about art work
2. Only Mood lighting
3. Scale furniture to room size (bed not more than 35% and everything else scale to bed)
4. Absolutely no clutter
5. Use bright matte colors
6. Headspace or headboard is an important part of bedroom design. Don’t ignore it.
7. Max 4 pillows
8. Bedding quality is most important.
9. If you are not a minimalist, you need some storage decorative unit.
10. Manipulate the feel of sunrise with curtains and shades and greens.
25 Fashion Rules
1. Don’t use bottom button on blazers.
2. don’t wash clothes often (except for underwear).
3. Polish leather shoes, not only for shine, but also for quality maintenance.
4. Match bag with clothing.
5. Match your leathers (shoes, belt, etc…)
6. No to Novelty anything
7. Only tuck in dress and tail shirts.
8. If you can pull it 3 inches away from your chest without stretching , it is big.
9. Skinny is the new standard.
10. Keep underwear plain dark
11. Women look at shoes first. Fashion is more important than comfort, otherwise there wouldn’t be high heels and ties.
12. Accessories : max 2
13. Don’t save money on glasses
14. Have your brand and know it.
15. Piss off people that you don’t like a little bit at least . Yes, it is a fashion advise.
16. Never ever show undershirts beneath your shirts. Don’t wear them if you can’t avoid it.
17. Steve Jobs is the last person to wear turtle necks.
18. No slippers except on the beach or pool side.
19. You have to have brown leather boots.
20. Contrast colors. Match complimentary not same colors.
21. Make a statement with beard, hair, glasses, shoes, or at least scarf. Don’t make a statement with anything else.
22. Never ever be a bulletin board or an ad board.
23. No sport or university jerseys ever ever unless you are playing in the team and it is during game.
24. Match the season. Autumn colors in fall, dark colors in winter, earthly colors in spring and bright colors in summer.
25. Minimalism in clothing too. Wear Only what you need. It has to match the function.
Photos from National Theater in Fujairah in the 1980’s
Thought of Today
Why aren’t phone holders built in all new cars?!
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Thought of Today
So we never heard Adam’s defense as why he ate the Apple.
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“The America that I want to make great again, is an America that we never had”
Michael Moore
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Wissam Charafeddine 