What Happens to People Who Love Egypt Today!!

Well, it’s really sad and ugly that after the revolution of 25^th Jan people can’t live in Egypt peacefully and can’t enjoy freedom of thought or get a decent living, thanks to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (i.e. SCAF), who are basically sucking the life out of anybody who loves and cares about this country and protects the corrupt ex-president and his family and friends!!!

Sign in Tahrir Sq. on 18 Nov asking to Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah;
 young Egyptian Activist who has been falsely put in Military Prison 

Anyway, I’m not going to go into criticizing the SCAF and its continuously failing ways in managing the country and responding to the demands of the revolution for a decent living, freedom, and democracy, because a lot of people have already wrote about that and continually writing about that from all around the world. I’m going to highlight something different, based on my personal experience. So, here it goes.

After 25 Jan Americans in Egypt with a Tourism Visa had to renew their visa every month. A few Americans I know who were working here in Cairo and couldn’t get a work permit (As a lot of employers here hire foreigners illegally and don’t give them a work permit, even some governmental organization does that !!), left Egypt because it’s a burden to keep going every month to Tahrir Compound (AKA: Mogama’a Tahrir) to renew their Tourism Visa.

iCare

iCare Technology

Long ago in a place called earth, where there were no machines, only living creatures created by Allah (The most Gracious the most merciful) humans lived in harmony with their surrounding environment. The air was great, so fresh and energetic with the scent of lilies, roses and tulips; especially at spring. Water was pure and spread life in everything it touches.

As humanity developed life on this placed called earth became much faster and faster. In order for Humans to keep up with the fast pace of life they developed machines, machines that cut trees to make wooden houses, machines to cut the grass and make it look uniform, machines to move them from a place to another at the speed of life.

These machines has used a lot of energy resources on earth and caused a lot of destruction to the environment. A number of people noticed the harm their machines were doing to the environment, and they decided to find solutions to decrease or remove this harm. So, they began using machines called computers and reducing their use of papers to reduce killing of trees. They also, used recycling machines to keep earth resources much longer, and decrease pollution caused by burning  waste. They also, started using renewable sources like solar energy from the sun. They started creating hybrid cars that uses less petroleum. They started using technologies out of their care for the environment, the “iCare Technology”.

They worked on this technology simply because they care about the environment and the lives of future generation of humans that are living in this environment. Sadly, this “iCare Technology” isn’t adapted widely in this place called earth. So, earth’s environment is dying slowly because of this “idon-t-care behavior” of lots of humans living in it.

Each and every one of us should be prosecuted for the crime of killing earth; every time we throw trash on the streets, every time we throw stuff in the river Nile, every time we use our car unnecessarily to go to some place only meters away, every time we throw stuff out of our car’s windows carelessly.

A letter to someone I thought I knew

I'm sorry that when they remember me they blame you that you let me go

I understand because this happens with me too

I feel what you are going through

I'm sorry that some of the things I said turned out to be right, I hate that sometimes I'm painfully right, and I sometimes wished I was wrong

I'm sorry for the pain I caused you without meaning to

I'm sorry for the memories I left for you
Hope you look back at them as something pleasant you've been through
, rather than memories of someone who didn’t care enough about you

, and never answered when you asked him "How are you?"
The truth is I truly cared for you 

I'm sorry but I never let the past ruin my present, and hoped you did so too

I'm sorry you didn't believe in yourself as much as I do

I'm sorry you are a person I thought I knew, and sadly this wasn’t true

, but most importantly I'm sorry you didn’t know “Who are you?”

I hope you know...I pray for you.

 Alaa El deen Fahmy

Note: The photo in this post is original and propriety of the Author.