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Being happy ... or acting happy ??
Published in Almasry Alyoum on 16 - 09 - 2010


Is it too clear?
Or maybe I'm imagining things!!
The style of a happy life, it comes in an invisible leaflet, delivered as a special notice message to kids of certain ages, mainly adolescents, some years above and currently we can include some years below the adolescence age as well…
It's a prescription … and I mean it PRE – description, yes pre which is equal to “before”…
This prescription of a happy lifestyle is prevailing in a monster fashion, so fast and so strong!!
Those who follow it, just do that without thinking … it's a prescription, just like using a well known herb without reading about its pros and cons…
I have many questions on mind now;
What is this magical prescription that attracts all people?
Why is it so attractive? And how come they just follow it!!
And the most important question to me is: how come it's a happiness prescription, though I don't see that people following it are truly happy!!!
Is it more important to show off that you are happy than to be truly happy from the inside??
Why do people care to show their lives off like that??
Posting pictures of themselves everywhere, as if waiting for others to tell them: you are great !! Why wait for others comments anyway??
Is it to satisfy their ego and to believe a big fat lie that they are happier than others??
Or maybe it's the obsession of comparing lives…
I went more places, I'm better than you …
I have more friends, I'm better than you …
I have a girlfriend / boyfriend, I'm better than you …
I'm in love, let's show it off and dance about it, because this certainly makes me be better than you …
I look amazing, oh my God, look at me with this hairstyle … look at my legs, look at my six – packs!!
Obsession …
Too much leisure time …
Emptiness of mind, and sometimes it's not emptiness, it's just having a mind with so many mal-programmed cells, bottom line; a mind that needs formatting…
It is the unavailability of a satisfying definition of the word “happiness”…
All these and more are maybe reasons of grabbing these prescriptions and using them … believing that one of them will make us happy, even if it didn't, we never blame the prescriptions, we just blame ourselves!!
Going out everyday and night …
Festivals and parties everywhere …
Driving a car in its maximum speed …
Having a gf / bf that all people wants to themselves …
Hanging out with “cool” people, most of whom are not really cool, but can take an “Oscar” for the great performance in acting …
People whom you discover that they were not friends and will never be … “just hanging out, just killing time” … then they're using you like a weapon!!
People who go with you on good terms when they need you, but go away when they find another …
People who put you as an option and convince you that you are their priority …
People who want to be with you for the sake of the way you dress and the people you know … not for yourself by any means …
People who are manipulative to get to where they wish to go …
People whom you waste your time on, and they don't deserve a femto second of it…
Then why do you do it??
For the same reasons as well …
You want to be “cool”, ok, you have to walk with the cool,
Want to be highly rated, go among the highly rated …
…etc.
I always believed that the reason of my presence anywhere is either that I'll be useful or maybe the others will be useful to me … i.e. either giving or taking …
But the presence with some people without giving anything, maybe falsely thinking that you are taking is not useful in any way …
Days go by and years of life are flowing, all this showing off and false definitions of “how to be happy” won't get you anywhere …
Those cool people won't be cool after some years, they'll be just failures …
And you … if you don't pursue a respectable future plan will also be a failure than no one wants to be around …
It's not enough that people click “like” on my pictures and rain me with comments of envy …
This shall not make me happier at the end of the day!!
All these words won't get me back one second of my wasted years … and imagine what?? Same people who “liked” you before shall vanish if you were not progressing as your age requires …
For girls, we can never deny the fact that a girl is highly rated for her look; her beauty, her social standard which implies her elegance, her way of talking and education. But at some point you'll need to have a life of your own, where you master things not by how you look but by how you act and think … prepare yourself for that day … and this preparation shall make you prettier currently as well …
For boys, you always seek for girls' attention, ok, take this: no girl loves a failure, no girls wants to be with a loser who doesn't know what to do with his life, she can't trust him or believe him, this type of boys can be friends at some adolescence age, but no more … believe me, no more …
Beware of your lives, it's time we started planning our future, it's time we stopped “killing” our time. Actually it's time we started living.


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