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Twenty Six
Last Day of my 25
I wish I had a laptop
I tried but she's just better alone, so I am the one who has to go.
she was not like the others at all. but just like the others she is also gone. at least that's what I'm trying not to believe.
sometime the worse thing you can do is answering a question with an action not a word.
IraQuarantine
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as this pandemic continues in all around the world because of the novel coronavirus (COVID19), countries are forced to take drastic measures to prevent the further spreading of the virus, countries like China the United States Italy the United Kingdom and of course Iraq
most of these countries started applying curfews and total shutdown of most institutes from schools and colleges to sports event and movies and music.
and also Quarantine
where people must remain in their houses and never leave unless its for food or an emergency.
like in Italy where people cant leave their apartments or go to the rooftops.
streets and alleies are empty and people are forced to stay in their houses no matter what,
where now you feel like you are a prisoner in your own home, trapped with everyone you know and things you own and suddenly your large 5 bedrooms house start to feel like a prison sell and your 1 bedroom apartment starts to feel like a broken elevator and you are trapped in it with nowhere to go in between floors.
what you can do now is limited by what you have as entertainment and what ways you can make that time goes by fast or make the most out of it.
most people in these countries have internet and great cellular network, and other forms of entertainment.
they can work from home and still make a living.
they can watch anything or read anything online.
they can buy things and have them delivered online.
they can watch youtube and post videos and pictures online.
and they can take classes and study
online.
and they can play videogames
online.
as most countries have a reliable and sustainable internet network that enable this online life. and without it you cant keep people from going out and breathe fresh air.
this brings me back to my own country, Iraq
where the curfew is applied and schools and everything is on lockdown and you have to do your part and stay at home.
but how?
the average internet speed in Iraq is 0.6mb per sceond. making it one of the worst internet connection you can have in this modern world.
and other than the slowliness of this internet you have the issue of reliability and stability.
you can not rely on this connection as it is wireless and it can be affected my almost anything in the air, from rain and wind to the distance between the client and ISP.
it is safe to say that this internet in not usable in days like these, as I am writing this, the internet cuts off because of the electricity who also went off,
Yes you heard me right, the electricity is off as it does not work, you cant see, you cant have AC or heat, you cant turn on the fan or tv. and the fridge will not give you cold water. and also means that the internet will go off as well becuse the network is heavenly a dependent on the electricity.
I dont need to explain to you how the electricity is the most important thing out our daily lives as you already know that.
from the door bell to the charger of your phone and the stove or the dishwasher.
you really cant live if your electricity went off for couple of minutes let alone hours and days and in my case years.
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Basra Iraq is where I live and I have establish that I lose electricity and have a bad internet. what can I do to stay indoors ? what can I do with this internet ?
I cant work online
I cant watch videos on the internet
I cant use socialmedia
I cant play videogames online
or regular video games if I lose the elctricty
I cant facetime
I cant study only
I cant post onile
and I cant have a good phone call becuase the internet is just not consistent or even close to being consistent. and a lot more that I cant do.
and when the electricity is off
I cant wash clothes
I cant play video games
I cant take tv classes
I cant use the vacuum
I cant have hot water for showering
I cant have cold drinks
I cant have lights in my room
and my food could go bad without the electricity
and there are a lot more thing I cant do.
most people here have adapted to this situation
the loseing of electricity. so we have backup generators to help us in the hours where the main grid is down. but we dont really have anything to backup the internet or support it,
in most days its fine, both the electricity and the internet are relatively fine, but now as most of the population of Iraq are staying at home and consuming a lot of energy, there is a heavy load on the network, we are straining the grid and stretching it thin, thinner than it already is.
and if suffer more from this pandemic as the summer is coming and we have to deal with the heat (123f-50°c) through out 6 months, Im afraid that the network will collapse and we wouldn't be abale to properly fix it and maintain it and times like these.
what I do most of the times when both the internet and electricity cuf off is
I write a lot, like Im doing right now
and I read a lot
I go on the roof as most houses here have rooftops you can breath and gaze on the sunsets or sunrise
I can clean the house and do what I can to prevent this virus from further spreading
I can workout and train and make most of my time productive.
I can wash dishes.
and other things to keep me busy if I already done most of my routine.
but that is speaking about me strictly, here in Basra people cant really just accept that they need to be quarantined because of a virus, so they break it and they walk in the town and they shop in crowded markets that are unsanitized and unsanitary, and you have to forgive them because of what they suffered throughout the years and how much they know death and how they are not afraid of it, not yet at least.
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the reason I write this now is to inform and share as well as document what life is like for me in a quarantine in Basra Iraq.
and also to put a spot light on few things some people might take for granted times like these,
so I want you to know that being in a quarantine is that fun or entertaining and its a hard time and there will be problems. but please try to always think and have in mind that there are people like me in which there quarantine is actually like prison, and me saying that as I think about all the homeless people and the refugees in camps and all the poor people who dont even have what I have right now.
I want you to also think about me and them just as I am thinking about you in this time,
and I know that we will come out of this better
I hope we do, Im doing my best to help with this and see it in affect when this pandemic is over.
people are showing their best all across the world and some of them are showing their worst.
we need to learn from this and we need to wrok and plan ahead from this point forward, for the sake of
Children
Planet earth
Elderly
Animals
Environment
and for each other
Humanity.
I would like to thank every human who is on the front line of this pandemic our heros, from doctors and nurses, medical staff and researchers, lap researchers and technicians
Janitors and cleaners. and everyone that is doing thier part in any way small or big. and I will thank Science for it is our only helper and our only way out of this.
Change of Decades
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when it was the end of 2019 I was caught up on the ideas of decades and how I should start a new decade with a different approach putting to affect everything I've learnt in the past decade. when december reached its end and came into more realisation and understanding to how I was in this past decade (2010-2019)
and what I've learnt and done in those 10 years and how I came to be from the very begginging of 2010 till the end of 2019.
from dancing and learning english to the mentalist and being smarter than everybody else. from reading books and listening to older people and their experience and learning from everything I face and live.
from 2012 and learning about the Illuminati and the Freemasons till the moment of full understanding by watching Zeitgeist movies.
to learning about Jacque Fresco and learning about everything he says and downloading his videos and rewatching them all.
and the venus peoject and how its bettet than everything I had ever read about or hear about.
to 2013 and buying a laptop and watching even more videos. and droppening out of highschool and never going back. and the time on facebook and youtube.
then in 2014 and leaving my old house and moving to a new neighborhood. and then dealing with the aftermath of that and how reminiscent I became about my shit old room as I described it and my old town that I was so desperate to leave.
to then unsubscribing from the faith and religion and escaping my environment.
to then adopting a new diet and being labelled vegetarian in 2015, then losing my laptop later that year.
then having my first smartphone in january of 2016.
and at February I did my first dental surgery and remove my right wisdom tooth in qibla,
and having my fist offical job in Basra Times Square Mall. in February.
and then removing my left wisdom tooth later that month
only to go back to that mall in march and having my favorite job of all time almost as cashier in Texas chicken restaurant.
and then quitting that job for me to be jobless for alomst the entire year.
then ofcourse 2017 and how hot and sad she was
how summery and painful
from the death of Jacque Fresco in may
getting my first tattoo in may
then June of sadness
my 23rd June anf the time in the beach
the sad songs and all the jobs of that year.
then 2018 and getting back to the same mall and going more to see and speak with the beach.
till the end of it and meeting golden girl
and then 2019 and how fast it was and how wiser I became, with every cup of tea and beach visit with every summer and palm tree.
for the sad and .... very sad
for all the songs and every single person I spoke with. that I hurt or made them feel good
nice and mean.
for the start and the end.
for all the changes.
for me
.
it only brings me to saying what I wanna say about trying to make the New Year's Eve special
in December 31st 2019, where I went to have tea at my spot in ashar and then to the beach of rivers.
I saw that everyone didnt seem to care about the year ending and definitely did not care about the decade ending. (wich is ofcurse a good thing, its just another number)
the seemed ok with 2019 ending because of what was going on at that time and the massive Revolution and the protest that was going on at that time from october fisrt.
then I moved my way back to the place of the protest in Jibila Basra Iraq at 10pm at night.
I saw that they were doing all kinds of operation and grief about all the young peole who died in the protest and still were dying at that time.
it was both mixed with sadness and happiness
hope and despair
love and hate
.
so I stayed there and decided that I want to finish this decade there with the people (mostly males)
and I had more tea and I played chess and I took a lot of pictures for the end of this decade.
and it happened at 12am where the clock marked the beginning of the new decade/year
I filmed the fireworks and the happy yelling of people in the street and all the overwhelming feelings that I had for I did not beleive I was alive that whole past decade and now I can witness the change of decades and document it and filim it.
after 23 mintues almost everything calmed down and everybody was going back to their places and some went back to their tents and I head back to empty ashar and empty Basra.
I walked in my town for a about 16 minutes at 1:16 am in january 1st 2020 and everybody was asleep and they definitely did not care about this decade.
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its only 3 days in this decade and already a lot has happened, from ww3 and the memes to how bad it was in Iraq and with the killings of young protesters.
and the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter.
to china declaring the outbreak of (covid19)
novel coronavirus in Wuhan China.
then the days went on and I had some of my own things to do like
getting on a boat for the first time in the decade this one and the one before.
having a somewhat happy/cold winter birthday
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and for the very first time in my life I had someone as the best winterbirthday party present from the universe to make me happy at January 26th.
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and I started doing a lot of things that I didnt think I could do or even think about in the first place.
and as the days went on and as we know each other and as I deal with the firstness of all of this.
of her
of the year
of the decade
of me
.
I had my first date ever in my whole life in February 14th
Valentine's Day
and I kept liking this decade with all of its early problems and stayed very positive about everything and wanted to see a solution for everything.
the time started to move fast and so does the problems, the protest and the killings and the pandemic that was declared on march 2020 by the WHO.
and I was very observant to how people and government reacted to this and how Iraqis reacted to this compared to the rest of the world. and I monitored everything both online and in real life and saw how the system started to crumble. and I tryed to stay very smart with this situation this is my first time witnessing a pandemic.
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how did we not see what was coming, how did we not think about it and had teams be prepared for it how did we came to be very negligent and so comfortable with this system and we are witnessing now is the failing of
Governments
Economics
Religions
to deal with this very new thing in our day and age.
we have been sleeping on these comfortable beds of phrases like
"we are more advanced than ever now"
" humans can survive in every condition"
"humans are civil and smart"
and you can see that this is not true if you look at the current state of people and how they are behaving the globe.
your trust in democracy did not work
your trust in politics did not work
Your dependence on the economy and money did not work
Your religion and God did not work
.
and as we continued the destruction of the environment in ourselves with our aberrant behaviour. and how we can all see now that we were not really civilised or smart.
and now you are witnessing the aftermath of we did to this planet and ourselves.
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only one thing remains one thing that helped us all since the beginning of time.
Science and how wonderful it is and how its the only way out of this pandemic.
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every other thing has abandoned you,
your politics, economics, democracy, Money
and God.
they have all prove to you that they are not worth your time and faith in them.
they are not worth your thoughts of them
and their ego that makes you a victim of being you.
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you can see that science is the only way, its the music and the internet of this Quarantine
the shows and the food
the company of people that is provided by the help of science
and medicine and doctors that are by science helping humans survive.
the ventilators and the bed
the antibiotics
the solution
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and as Im sitting in my balcony of gaze, looking at the town as it rains heavy on these muddy streets, thinking to myseld if this is what I had in my mind for the start of the decade?
I dont know what I had in mind when I was waiting for a new thing to happen in this decade.
it is a strange time and a strange feeling that I have when I see the state of the world and how surreal it is.
I have hope for this planet and for humans that they will come out of this smarter and better
I dont know if they will I would like to work for that and see that in the next months and years and decades.
a lot of people are behaving currently regarding this situation.
most are doing their absolute best at times like these.
and I can only do my small part of anything from writing to filming and documenting.
and to listening to experts and science.
to not make assumptions and judgements
and to stay hopeful for the days to come.
.
maybe it will be the start of end of this Monetary System.
and the beginning of
Resource Based Economy.
Sometimes I wish I had a friend like me. some one to really understand me and see it my way. just like a main character in a show that no body understand more than the viewers, because we see them and how they are alone and really know who they are.
do you know what I think the problem is ?
I think the problem is that I'm poor
not just in money but also poor humans
poor life poor art poor tools poor city
I can not write what is going on in my head right now
Im like a everything I like made into feelings of palm trees and tea
beaches of sunsets and words that make no senses
I hope she is not like the others.
sometimes I feel so alone and sad I don't even think I can feel anything else
even tho I dont post a lot here I still like posting cuz I know nobody reads what I write
Winter Birthday
Twenty Six
My Best Decade yet
Im really Thankful for Jacque Fresco and the Venus Project, for Patrick Jane and the Mentelist, for my mentors that I worked with, for my galaxy s5.
for Eminem and of course for Zayn. thankful for every event that happened to me in this decade for everything that changed me and helped me be who I am today, Im thankful for every one that got me through this decade for every song and movie, every bad memory, every beach walk in the summer every birthday I spent alone. every job and interview, every insult and fight, every time I thought about giving up but didn't, every time that I try to be a better person. Im thankful for (You) and every thing you did and said to me. and I am thankful for (Me) and every time I tried changing this world and people around me for the better, and doing the best I can to maybe make a difference in this city, country, and the world.
Im ok with this decade, and the way I lived and the choices I made. and the people I talked to and texted. Im ready to start a new decade with a lot of motivations and goals and I will try my best to be better than I was. and I hope you do the same.
so thank you (2010/2019).
my biggest regrets of this decade.
not having a sister, not meeting Jacque Fresco, not posting videos on youtube, not traveling outside of Iraq, not finishing highschool, not going to collage not getting drunk, not getting high, not living on my own. not celebrating my 23rd birthday outside of this city. and I regret being me.