Commitment. Part Two.

Commitment to Fellow Human Beings

This kind of commitment maybe named as love, care, friendship, or even social responsibility. In other words, the world of human "important" relations. The problem is, the matter is about give and take. You give, you take, others give, others take. Sometimes you reach the limit that you think you don't take what you think you deserve. Is this positive or negative? Maybe it depends on the situation itself. I really don't know.
Sometimes you are obliged to give, without expecting any return. This requires a giving personality. You turn yourself to a volunteer to a goal whick you think that it deserves giving. This is good as a whole in charity work specifically. But, what about other places in which you give for mere entertainment. Like a club, a community of CDs rights for not to be damaged, etc etc etc. (I meant trivial activities by the last example). You pay your time, money and nerves to be in the center of attention of the people you want to be surround with. To boost your ego for example, or to lessen your lack of being noticed, or whatever psychological need.

You find yourself in the end out of the center of attention, for many factors, especially the factor of change. You see your goal as being in the center of attention falling apart. You think low of yourself. Then comes the Great Depression (referring to the USSR fall down lol). Then you begin to ask yourself, was it worth it? Is this loss for no return?

Here comes the idea of reviewing and trying to fix the problems we realize. And before it, realizing the problem in the first place, because many times you don't realize that there is a problem until it is too late, like most of the medical cases in our Beloved Egypt. Always realize, review, and solve. Never stop trying.

Commitment. Part One.

Commitment.

One big word which can be a great title with numerous sub-titles. Of course most of us human beings are committed to our home land, to the nation, you know...the average meaning of patriotism. You are committed to this country you are living in through the whole system things are happening, whenever this system is right or wrong. In the end in everyone's inside there is a feeling which enables the human being to make his country better when s/he has the chance. This is one of the most positive forms of commitment.

When we get to another minor form of this commitment, a tie which the human tie him'herself to a small place, a place of which the human think that it contains memories, valuable memories which is really valuable. But, sometimes for preserving the stay in this place there is a precious price. Sometimes you pay from your time, your money, your...health, for the return of memories. I guess that if the price is too precious, one must have a turn-over, must have a talk with one's self. Does this price equals the importance I feel from preserving my stay? Or...what?
The need to change versus Commitment. The ability to go on after intentionally leaving something valuable to yourself.

to be continued.

Paradigm Shifting to "Paradigm Shifters".

Dear All Paradigm Shifters,

We, all know that Paradigm Shift, meant something for us, something special, just looking back and see how each one became a member of this club, TeenStuff, Nirvana, Bassem Sabry..
it was like a long time ago, we started with big rush, big dreams, and we tried to do ou best to make our effort come to light.. but sadly it didn't.

I'm writing this not to point at, "Who's fault", that was, who's responsible, is it Bassem becasue he didnt support us good enough!, or is it TeenStuff that who didn't really took us seriously!, or is it us!!!, We couldnt get it right, we lacked something.. didnt we?
To say what went wrong and who's fault for the club failure, is way too wrong to begin our reviving start with, for so many reasons, most important, that we all know quite well, how hard we all tried to make this work, all the meetings, and writting stuff, wether individualy or in groups, trying everything we can, while we were busy we cared still, we gave our time and our effort and full commitment to the club... didn't we?

We are not to blame, we are like a student who studied hard all year long, and when he was to set for the exam, anxious and ready to kick it off, they told him that the exam is canceled, the subject he studied doesn't exist anymore..
All what he did was zero, nothing in the air..
But looking at it from a different angle, it wasn't the student fault, he studied hard, he did what it takes, but something went wrong, something out of hands, its so frustrating, but to sit down and think of it for a while, he didn't lose anything. He gained all the information & knowlegde he studied, he knew some good teachers, teaching him that subject, and he knew deep within him, he knew quite well, about his ablities and standards, he just wanted to take it to the final level, the exam, but does it really matter, when you know the lesson is already learnt?!!

Despite of the depression and frustration, we gained, in the other hand, we knew eachother well, we became close friends, we succeeded in team work, weather TeenStuff published it or not, (tho it did to some of our articles), each one really knew what "paradigm-shift" is.

Unlike I was thinking, in some point I thought that all of that will get us no where, but I was wrong, we still have our passion to change oursleves and change others, and this experience we had should make us stronger, we all have those non stop ideas.. dont we..

And after all, if its not us then who will.." Be the change we wish to see in the world" .