How much do you trust your desires?

"Fast, and you will be fine" --Mohammad

We have always connected fasting with food. Fasting means stop eating, listening to music and saying bad things to others until the sunset.

Only recently I have got the time to contemplate food, and enjoy it for what it is. When it comes to desireables, the saying above should be put into practice.

When we stop watching something for a while, the time we get back to it, the pleasure of watching it and the anticipation grows a notch. It becomes different, no longer a duty. But an extra pleasure of life.

Consider fasting from the digital world. From your phone, your blackberry.

It's like taking a vacation from work. You love work but a vacation sure makes you more productive at it.

Take a break from coffee.

From your favorite hobby, or your best friend.

Call it abstinence, zen, fasting. It is a way to learn living with the who that is you, to discover the why that makes you what you really are.

When you return back to your normal life, it will feel pleasureable. It will have a meaning.

Have a pleasant night!

Jason Santa Maria (C)

Measurable Emotions

Like we've been taught in schools and universities, in order to make a sensible good argument, we should suppress, spot then ignore emotions because they cannot be measured or calculated.

Emotions are elusive, in a scientifically dominant world, only material and calculate-able things count.

Almost everyone have watched Wael Ghonim come-back interview, a UAE-based google employee who disappeared for 12 days because of participating in the protests in Egypt.

After the video went viral, a Facebook page that was created to support him went from 1 fan to 50,000 in 30 minutes, reached 100,000 fans in less than 12 hours.

Ghonim's emotional words has changed many people's opinions. People were moved by his honest words in the interview. Now, in Egypt, people who were never interested in the fight are marching now towards Liberation Square, in thousands.

Photo (c) Bahgat Osman