Category: Thoughts & Scribbles

If you were offered to choose one and only one super power, what would you choose and why?

This is a thought that has crossed my mind more than once since my childhood, and I guess everytime I’d have a new answer depending on the new cool superhero comic or cartoon I was into.

But now, when I think of it, the 2 most tempting super powers for me are flying and being invisible. And having to choose only one, I’d choose Invisibility.
Of course not just normal invisibility, no I’d also have to be able to walk through walls and stuff.

The ability to become invisible is so much more powerful than most people would think. It means you’d be able to go wherever you want, do whatever you want, see whatever you want without anyone knowing.

It means freedom beyond any degree of freedom a normal human being could enjoy.

It means so much power without anybody knowing where it’s coming from.

For example, If I could become invisible, I’d pick myself up right now, walk into the airport, go aboard a flight to the US, go to NASA, take a space shuttle for a little spin around earth, get back in time to change the results of the US elections then come home to blog about it 😉

Now, that’s cool…

Of course, after a while, I’d grow a bit bored of it, and so I would start thinking of maybe helping people using my super natural gift 😛

It’s that little voice in the back of your mind telling you:

– It’s ok, no one’s looking, just do it!
– Oh come on, just this once isn’t going to mean anything!
– Just one last time, come on!
– You know you want to, so what’s the point in torturing yourself?!
– Go ahead, just rip his head off, no one will notice!
– Tell him to go **** himself!
– It’s ok, it’s a simple tiny white lie, nobody’s gonna get hurt.
– No, don’t help him! Nobody would help you if you were in his place.
– Leave that good deed till later, there must be something interesting to see on TV. That documentary on Pig fat isn’t that boring after all.
– Look at what they’re doing, don’t they just deserve to die. Kill them, kill them!
– There goes another punk crossing the street without looking. Hit him, hit him!
– Hey, nobody’s looking. You can look now 😉
– Yummy…
– Oh if you just weren’t (fill blank), you could (fill corresponding blank).
– Whether it’s right or wrong depends on how you look at it.
– The concept of good and evil is a man-created illusion.
– Forget about body fat, that food is too good to waste.

And the list goes on…
Each and everyone of us has his own personal devil.
So, what else does your personal devil tell you?

“The only thing worse than an asshole is a nice asshole!”

Me

This is something I said today and just thought I’d share here.
Really if there’s anything in this world that is worse than some asshole pissing you off constantly, it’s having a nice asshole do it, he pisses you off with a smile and in a weird friendly way.
It just adds to the frustration when you feel like smashing his head in while he just smiles back at you and acts like he’s your friend.

So, to every nice asshole on earth: Choose sides! Either you’re an asshole or you’re nice! Don’t piss us off even more by trying to be both…

While thinking of my different hobbies and all the stuff I truly enjoy, I found out they weren’t really that different after all. They all revolve around the art of storytelling.

Being a book fan, every book tells a different story, takes you different places, paints different worlds, picks you up out of reality and throws you into a beautiful world of imagination.

As for music, every song tells a new story too, new events, new ways to express the feelings, new feelings to express the meaning.

In cinema, every movie is a story, it portrays a world for you to live during the length of the movie, a set of new characters to know, an idea it tries to pass, a life it’s trying to show you.

When it comes to photography, every photo captures a moment, a moment from a life, from a story, stimulating your imagination to pick up the bits and pieces in that picture and construct the story your own way.

And it goes on and on for every other hobby of mine.

Actually, I think every form of art is nothing but another way of telling a story and another way of passing it’s idea.

So I’d like to think of myself as a fan of the art of storytelling in all it’s forms and colors. I love being told stories and I love telling stories too.

The human imagination is such a powerful and great tool. A simple thought or a piece of text will trigger our imagination to create a whole new world for us to see and enjoy.

In books, we often find ourselves imagining the places the writer is talking about and putting faces to the characters he’s created. It all adds to the great fun of reading a story by in fact living it too.

Anyway, now with blogs, other than all that, we also find ourselves trying to imagine how the blog writer looks like in an attempt to associate a face to that person.

We try to pick up certain little details from here and there in their posts to try and make up a better picture of them in our minds, because it’s more comforting to us in a way to know how the person we’re reading from looks like.

Blogs are quite a personal way of communication and expression, sometimes revealing quite a lot about the writer and his life. With time the people reading the blog grow to know this person really well and it kind of bugs them if they can’t even picture that person in their minds, and that’s why they start imagining how they might look like.

I find it funny and very interesting when I try to imagine how someone might look like through their writings, and I find it even funnier and even more interesting when I think about how people would think I look like by reading what I write.

I wonder how I look like in your imaginations.

Some years ago, the people who sell gas bottles in pickup trucks in Jordan were told to stop making this annoying clanking noise by hitting the gas bottles to announce they were near, and instead just play this same brain-melting tune that I honestly think is even more annoying.

Anyway, when that started, I thought someone should take a sample of that tune and make a full club mix out of it.
I truly think it could work out and if released as a single become one of the biggest hits ever in Jordan, lol.

Now that I’m back here and am waking up to that tune every morning and hearing it a number of times throughout my day, I couldn’t agree more.

It’s a tune that has been engraved into our brains and I don’t think anyone in Jordan couldn’t hum the whole tune from beginning to end.

It’s got all the makings of a huge hit. So really someone should try this out, and for coming up with the idea, I only want 50% of the revenue 😉

This morning, on my way to work, this idea crossed my mind:

Without failure, you’ll never really know what you need to succeed. Every failure shouldn’t be regarded as an end to current success but rather as a starting point for new success and greater things.

And well, it’s true. Without failing in something, you’ll never really know what it is that made you fail in it and what you need to have or do to succeed the next time around.

We often get annoyed and depressed by our failures, but we fail to recognize the fact that if we never failed we’d never know what it is we need to do to make ourselves better.

Whether the failure actually happens or if we just expect it to happen, what’s most important is the lesson we get from it and that we identify how to never fail again because of the same reasons paving the way for future success.