Everyday I wake up , take a taxi to school just like yesterday.
TAXI , El Nasr Girls College please
and they always stop.
I started gazing out of the half opened window ; my eyes caught men in suits checking their wrist watches while going to work , a woman with a child or two clinging to her hand as she's taking them to school like most mothers in the world. The children are always wearing their uniform fresh and ironed ,walking like a drunken penguin . It's too early and the sun is boiling the brains inside.
Mum I don't wanna go to school today please
but they always go.
shops were being opened and the closed sign is diverted to the opposite side with the 'opened 'word on , cats stretching their arms and yawning under the fresh cloudless perfect blue sky . Doesn't that struck you that while the sky seems static and still and everything is taking its normal pace, the streets are bustled with mobile cars and buses crowded with employees and students going to their desired destination and the traffic jam is in its highest peak . As always I'm going to be late.
If only I've woken quarter an hour early
but I never do.
I started thinking of excuses to tell them to my teacher for being late and for not completing my homework . However this day a different thought crossed my mind and swallowed me up until I lost track of time as if I've entered to an alien world where no one exists but I , me and myself . I've been stuck inside my head with all its contrasting thoughts.I started wandering : there are 7 billion people on Earth but I always think that the world revolves around me , surprise surprise , it doesn't . I must stop being selfish ! the people I see everyday are another version of me or I'm just their reflection. They have their own dependent , intimate life just like me . As I'm thinking right now they are thinking too . The voice inside their brain is talking too maybe not with the same tone but with the same beat ( I, my family,tomorrow and yesterday). I wonder what are they thinking about?
Sara ! focus on yourself now you've your own problems
Yes , I do have my own problems but what about the others ? Do they have problems too ? of course they do ,who doesn't ?! And their problems might be bigger and more serious than mine . Their parents , actually their backbone might have just had an accident and they are in the hospital . Or their house is devastated due to a tsunami or even worse - a break up -. Maybe A man just lost his job or a wife that her husband just kicked out of the house ( just to emphasis HER husband ).A child that lost his beloved tender mother . A man's daughter who was just diagnosed with leukemia. How small my problems beside theirs .
No No No my problems are big too!
In what way? I've got a big house , a nice family with strong bonds, our economic status is fine and our health was never better . What am I babbling about ?! I should be kissing my lucky star right now for all the things that might have happened to me instead of them but it didn't. But as much problems they have they must have their own happy moments that make them smile involuntary . I'm sure they do because that's life, sweet and sour .
Maybe just maybe A man's son is just graduating from medical school . Or a girl just married her crush since kindergarten and finally got a ride on her prince charm horse . A mother being a mother for the first time , she just had a sweet little baby girl . First day of school to a little boy and finally he could meet his best friend everyday! how about a cancer survivor and tonight is going to be her finally sweet sixteen .Or a daughter meeting her navy father after being in the seas for a whole 6 months .Simply, it could even be the first time a puppy gets a walk on the beach !
Wow that's amazing .
At this moment the taxi driver caught me smiling and asked me why are you happy mam , would you share a happy thought with me ?
It's not my thought it's other peoples' thoughts
I don't get you
Never mind , but you tell me how are you today?
Actually I'm ecstatic today , you see my son is graduating from medical school today . I'm so happy I had a role in raising a great man like him what's even great is that he's not embarrassed that his father is just a driver .He always says to his friends that this taxi is one of the things that made him what he is today .Yes he is my little man and he'd always be that in my heart as long as I live. He said that with a mega smile like if he just won the lottery . False ,his happiness couldn't be measured with anything physical because it was something that could only be seen with closed eyes because everything beautiful cannot be seen with bare eyes . His joy even if it couldn't be touched it felt so tangible. Yes that's true 'Maybe A man's son is just graduating from medical school'
After 5 minutes we reached the school parking lot
I gave the driver his money and told him
Thank you
As I always do, but this time I meant it .
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