"World has failed Syria"

So I wrote this a couple days ago on Facebook after seeing this headline. I received many amazing responses so I thought i'd share it here as well. I love it when I get the urge to write and passion happens, so i end up typing pages. Better than any paper! :) 
Note: feel free to share opinions and ask questions on my ask.fm page! Have you failed? 

Reading this broke my heart. It's true, the world has. The truth is, people don't care and won't care unless it happens to them. I only wish that people could walk just a day in the shoes of a Syrian. Only then the world will unite, only then people won't rest until the slaughtering and injustice stops, because it'll be a huuuge slap in the face.

People need to wake up. They make you think what they want you to think. You only know what 'they' want you to know. You don't know what's really going on in Syria, Bosnia, Ukraine, and Venezuela (and many more) for a reason. You don't care for a reason.

You, scrolling down your FB newsfeed right now, you're the perfect result of how your government wanted to shape you as. You're a victim of your own system. They've succeed. Keeping you busy with the latest technology or your worries like paying for college. Making sure your education price tag increase every year while little do you know your government spends much more money than the cost of higher education on a prisoners living expenses (in the US). $50,000+ dollars. Let that sink in.

People need to wake up. I think I know how Syrians feel. During the 2011 Egyptian revolution when things got really serious, as thousands were dying daily in riots for their freedom, the government shut down all communication in Alexandria (Cairo, Port Said, etc.). That means no phones, no internet, no nothing. I can't describe how wrong it felt... being striped only of that one right.

As it was too dangerous to leave my house (and along with the city curfew every night) I was left with a lot of time to think. The whole week I was actually excited, despite the day-to-day fear, tension, and despair...I was excited. I was excited to see what the rest of the world was doing. All week along I remember thinking 'whats happening is so crazy, this is historic, the whole world must be watching! My friends abroad must be worried sick! My FB must be blowing up'.

When we received internet access and service again, when I got the chance to see how angry the world must be at my government because of what's happening outside my window, I did what anybody would do, I signed onto Facebook haha. And guess what, I had a sad realization that the world was not watching. I received only one post from an old friend in elementary school saying she saw 'something' on the news about Egypt and she asked about what's going on.

Most people don't give two cents about what's going on outside their small fixed lives. Don't be that person. Death is not 'something'. Lock Down is not 'something'. Prison breaks are not 'something'. Trying to overthrow a dictator is not 'something'. Risking your life for a better future is not 'something'. Dying for freedom is just NOT 'something'!

What I went through is nothing compared to what the Martyrs (r.i.p) went through or what Syrians and Venezuelans are going through right now at this very moment.

Do you wake up thinking about death? Do you pray begging God that Bashars army doesn't bomb your street today? Do you fear going to a hospital because you know that every time it's rebuilt the doctors are attacked or the building will be blown up because your president wants to make sure you don't live?

No you don't. There are parts in the world where peoples daily struggles make all ours feel so small and pathetic.

For the sake of humanity we have to act on things. Some people question God at this point. Thinking why does He let all this happen then? All this chaos and slaughterings of innocents? It's because He gave us the ability it to fix things, to do something about it. The mind to think with, the strength to act, and the heart to care. It is us who have done nothing.
We have truly failed. 

I want to learn sign language.

I want to learn sign language, just for that one time if i ever get to meet someone who is mute. Just so I can be able to communicate right away with him as if nothing makes him less capable for the general public to greet him and wish him a good day. Just to be able to say 'Isn't it a beautiful day out sir' or simply 'Good Morning' or even to compliment his attire. Just to be able to communicate with him like everyone else.
I truly do wish so. I want to learn sign language.

What do you Desire?

"If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time: You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to go on doing things you don’t like doing — which is stupid!" Alan Watts

Missed me? :p

I haven't posted anything in a while, but I have indeed been writing 24/7.  I written many lyrics and poems that'll make no sense, a greater amount of pure 'rants' but I'll start edited them up and posting them isA :)
Until then I'd like to share this beautiful deep song with you, If you haven't already come upon it. This song somehow means so much to me, has taken a toll on my life, and is already dedicated to my future husband isA. <3
Women reading this: Prepare to cry
Men reading this: take your ego aside, unwrap the bundle of feelings you've stashed away and let this song touch your heart and melt into your soul. And then come and tell me how it felt to feel like John. Capish?

lol on a side note, ill try to make my posts short so I can actually post them and not get lazy about it! Enjoy :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg

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I have No Pictures to Show.

I repeatedly tried to take a picture of the sunset and it never came anywhere close to its mesmerizing beauty I saw with my own eyes. The lens did it no justice.

I realized that sometimes the most beautiful things can't be captured, like laughter, the feeling of butterflies in your stomach when you're on a high of happiness or that ease you get once your eyes meet with the eyes of one dear to you. So I put what was blocking me from seeing the beauty of the world back in my pocket and just stood there till the very tip of the sun finished sinking, put to bed and tucked by the horizon, leaving a soft cotton candy glow to illuminate the sky.

I had nowhere to be, No rush. Don't look at me funny I'm watching one of Gods beautiful creations, no shame. We see pictures of beautiful places around the world on some random Facebook page we probably liked called 'luxurious places' or 'best beaches' wishing we could go to that place because we know Its better to actually experience the atmosphere personally. Yet when we're there, we dare to take out our own phones and take a dozen of snapshots rather then actually letting the beauty of the place put us in the state of trance we wished to feel when we were once while looking at the picture online. Ironic.

Our generation should never forget for a second that there's a better life, an actual life outside our phones. If we do we could miss a breathtaking sunset, like what I just saw.

Stop and take a moment to admire all the beautiful things you take for granted every day. (:

Sidi Heniesh - August 12th 2013

Gets me every time...

This video keeps me in check of my goals for Masr isA. I dont know why but I literallly cry everytime I watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsVdo_dSXgE

A Feminist Critique of Ms.Sara Bellum

I've made a discovery! Kinda...you know how now we realize all these subliminal messages in the old cartoons/ movies we used to watch as kids? Like how Shaggy from Scooby Dooby Doo is actually a huge pot head? lol Well heres a few things about Ms. Sara Bellum, it's completely right wing I admit but still interesting. And as always, tell me your thoughts :) ( ask.fm/askShourouk)

Ms. Sara Bellum

As a character in the Cartoon series ‘The Power Puff Girls’, Ms. Sara Bellum is the Mayor’s very competent, statuesque, and redhead right-hand assistant who often handles things the Mayor can’t, which is practically everything. The multi-stereotypical face is never revealed on screen, clearly producing a gaze that objectifies women as it shapes the minds of the youngsters to believe that you don’t need a ‘head’ in order to be successful.

Among eyes Ms. Bellum is a common predilection because of her sexy appearance. The hyper-feminist has an ‘Hour-Glass’ shaped body that the majority of men dream about. Simply constructed from a thin waist (the base); making its way up to large breasts or down to her round hips and toned butt, her body is considered as full. Characters in the cartoon often claim that she is very beautiful (Pro.  Utonium is always stunned and usually weakened in her presence) which makes sense because all her features are ‘long’ which is considered beautiful or attractive now, and apparently when the cartoon was being produced. She is a tall woman with long legs, hair, nails, and also a long neck which is said to be beautiful as is symbolizes a horse’s neck. Ms. Bellum with her perfect lady-like posture always struts herself in a pair of red (the color of seduction) heels, a short skin-tight skirt, a golden necklace, and a black belt to make her tight, slightly revealing business vest even tighter. Whenever in the center of attention an object has to cover her face or just her great deal of curly red hair does the job. But what impact does this have on the viewer and did it affect our society today? Yes, the girl eyes staring at screens know that since they are smart they will have a successful future but because of Ms. Bellum they now think that there success won’t come a long unless they have the exact appearance as Ms. Bellum, including the incorrect fact that what matters is what’s going on from the neck down. This applies to the society today as millions women who were never able to climb up to the standard of ‘Ms. Bellum’, end up feeling incomplete, unconfident, not good enough, or just the plain old unattractive loser who was never able to have the highlight of correcting a teacher while she glows emitting her beauty. She also indirectly teaches a type of seduction to kids in one episode through teaching ‘The Power Puff Girls’ to be nice the ‘Rowdyruff Boys (villains)’ (in other words, kiss them) instead of fighting to destroy them which ended up working. Furthermore, Ms. Bellum is also the reason why men only focus on women’s bodies because that’s exactly what she did. She taught the once young boys to only focus on what underneath the head because that is what is important.

At first Ms. Bellum is seen as a sex object, ironically until she speaks, even though her voice sounds insouciant. Matching her appearance Ms. Bellum’s tone is kept constant while her throaty, alluring, and quite unruffled voice displays her intellectual side. While it’s hard to believe that as she says stuff like ‘It’d be my pleasure…’ her “Do tell…’s” show the stereotype of a very successful woman were her only super power is her high intelligence. Unfortunately, this does criticize the patriarchal structure or the society because distinctly she is the brains of the Mayor operations, deserving his position. Yet she’s just an assistant to the dumb unproductive male just because being Mayor is defined as ‘a male job’ like being the president. In one episode she expresses an obsessive attachment to the Mayor after he died, proving that she is in love with him which easily connects to the society now as usually the assistant ends up falling for her Boss or vis versa.

The gaze of Ms. Bellum strongly objectifies women as it teaches youngsters to judge from the head down and that it is only possible to be ‘something’ high in life if you have ‘The Look’. Although, no-matter what your IQ is men remain inferior to women, and women have to stay trapped under their planned authority. Who knew a headless woman in a cartoon for kids could explain today’s society moreover; engrave such a huge impact in the world today, huh?