I’ve been away for some time. The past few weeks have been among the most agitated in my life so far. Agitated is really the word … Roaring winds, blinding dust, deafening storms, crashing waves ……. I could have written so many things, but it’s just too agitated for me to write. May be I am not the dramatic writer who would write best during his worst times... not yet at least.
Anyway now that the smoke is going down, or may be I’m just getting used to it … I want to say “I’m back”!
“I’m back” ... It should be a relieving thing to say … but it’s very puzzling sometimes.
There is always this fear that back is backward, the fear that back is a move with a minus sign. I don’t believe this is a rule but it certainly puts a tough question to answer for anybody making a back decision.
I must have ready answers for all the questions “I’m back” implies. This is often a reason that keeps you from having something back to your life, or resuming something you were once doing and stopped, or returning to a place you left.
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Welcome back ..
I am trying to imagine that everything will be shared on two again the Room, the Car,our Clothes, the computer, the net and even mum's and dad's care .. may be my point of view is a bit childy but that's true.
I hope that your " back " is not a minus sign and I hope that u made the best decision ...
WELCOME BACK BRO. and God be with you
Hany Na22ash
When i read the post Rami i thought u meant "back to ur normal self"... but Hany's comment shows u r back to Egypt!
I am sure someone like urself sure has a very good reason for taking this step.. & it is never a minus sign... It just means u r putting ur priorities in the right order.
Welcome back friend. & call me when u're in Cairo w balash nadala... i wanna meet u & Rosa :)
Brother,
I'm sure you wont mind me sharing again for a while some of your stuff :) ... I just realized that I've been to Dubai before you joined university! I'm eager to share with you some of your university days ...
Lilo,
I actually wrote it with the intention not to make it too obvious :) I do hope it's not a minus sign and priorities are set as they should be ... Thanks for your words my old friend .. I'll surely call you when I'll be back.. we want to meet you too :)
Rosa,
Your words darling made me feel like my arms stretching out and throwing myself into those stretched to have me back and horraaayyyy :):)
"home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts" I liked that one so much. Let me tell you this, I once left Egypt and you know pieces of my heart were there and still are; and now that I am leaving Dubai, my Dubai friends who are reading this would know very well that pieces of my heart are staying here behind me ... Even though I am packing and returning home, I have a home here as well that I'm never giving away ...
Naccache! I share Sameh's sentiments in that we will dearly miss you - you have been a wonderful asset to the service here - I will always remember your matter of fact, argumentative tone about everything :) - I always thought we needed some more intellectual guys around - but oh well - ur blog will always be revisited for the latest thought provoking issues ( as long as u stop using ur praise service as an advertising opportunity :P).
I think the memory you have left me with was our service at Fujeirah - it was wonderfull, full of praise and harmony and I felt, you, Sameh and I were one spirit. You are one of the few people whom i feel shares my view on praise leading and so it was wonderful to be ur vocal support and not to mention ur amazing cooperation with the pitch :D. We also had a great time on the way - four hours or more of arguments :D. We will definitly miss you when we decide to do our "street singing" again on Christmas day but we will try to find another expressive, guy vocal to remind us of u :D. May God guide your future pathways :).
So will I be the one to end the comment string?
No drama involved: I did not need to spend any time with you to know that once you leave, many things will be so different
I am at loss for words ... I just know that I am happy you will be back with your fiance, family & friends.
May you be like Caleb - a servant following His heart to the end of days; like Bartimaeus - fighting for His touch regardless of what will stop you; like Lydia - listening and not just hearing ... the list will not end :)
Friends never say goodbye
hold on antimena, I still didn't comment,
na22ash, I don't know what's going on,
5 years, same college, same department, same section, same projects, same food and even same home...
first year after graduation, everything still the same ,remember the ITI project,
then u moved to Dubai, I still remember that day when u told me about it, we went el tak3iba to drink some tea,
but since that time ya na22ash, we didn't have the chance to be in the same place like before.
1 year later I moved to Dubai, at that time I said yesssss, the old days r back, then u left to egypt on the day after my arrival day, then I moved to Lebanon one day before u come back Dubai and since that we're running after each other, we meet for a couple of days every few months...
just these days I got the confirmation that I'll be staying here in Dubai for some good time and now u r telling me u r going back Egypt :-D
there is one thing I want to say here, friendship is not dependent on where we r...
Rami u know u r my best friend and u'll always be, go to Egypt or even go over the moon but u'll still be my best friend...
good luck buddy
Fawzy, Mena, Sameh, Amy, Mizo, um overwhelmed friends!
I didn't plan for this post to start a thread of goodbye comments, however it did. I was planning to write another one later and call it "when I say GoodBye" :)
But I figured out it's just an impossible job for the novice writer I am to write proper tributes to each cherished memory I had with each one of you people.
I don't think I can ever write enough about the St.Stephen wonderful friends and meetings and conventions and outings, or about BCS (My BCS partner gave a glimpse about it in his comment;)), or about my old and new friends of the mohandesseen gang :)
No drama involved... But no need to write too much, only because friends never say goodbye ... and as Fawzy said you'll always be
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