Hello, My name is Mosab Elderawi, and I live in Gaza with my family. Life here has become harder than I ever imagined, and Iâm writing this with hope in my heart that you might hear our story.
The ongoing war has devastated my family. Weâve lost 25 family membersâeach one a beloved part of our lives, taken too soon. I miss them deeplyâtheir laughter, their presence, their love. Every day is a reminder of this unimaginable loss.
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We are now facing daily challenges to surviveâthings that most people take for granted, like food, clean water, and a safe place to sleep. The harsh realities of life here have replaced our dreams with the constant fight for survival.
Our Current Situation:
đ Lost Stability: The war has left us without work or a stable source of income. đ Basic Needs: Food and water are becoming harder to afford with rising prices and scarce resources. đ Dreams on Hold: Like so many here, my familyâs dreams have been replaced by the need to simply survive. đą Unimaginable Loss: Losing 25 loved ones has left a void that can never be filled.
How You Can Help:
Iâm sharing our story with the hope that someone out there might care. Even $5 can make a big difference for us, and if youâre unable to donate, just reblogging this post can help spread the word.
Your kindness, no matter how small, is something weâll never forget.
What This Means to Us:
Your support is not about changing our entire situationâitâs about giving us a little relief, a little hope, and a way to keep going. We are not asking for much, and we understand if you canât donate. Sharing our story is just as valuable to us as a donation.
Thank you for reading this far. It means the world to us to know that someone is listening. Your kindness gives us strength and helps us believe in a better tomorrow.
With all our gratitude, Mosab Elderawi and Family â€ïž
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Hello Everyone, I am Mosab Suleiman Al Derawi, 28 years old, my wife Nadine Adel A⊠Mosab Derawi needs your support for Help me saving who's
As children, making friends was easy. All you had to do was go up to another kid and ask: âDo you want to be my friend?â They would say âYes!â, and you would go play with your new friend.
But as an adult, you become âan island unto yourselfâ, drifting alone, disconnected, and isolated in the ocean of adulthood.
Frustrated and filled with loneliness, you ask, âWhy is it so hard to make friends as an adult?!â
There are many reasons why itâs hard to make friends as an adult, and each person experiences a personalized mix of reasons. However, there are three overarching barriers. Those barriers are Time, Acquaintances, and Guarded Hearts.
Time
Friendships take time to build. One research study found that it takes 40+ hours to go from acquaintances to casual friends, 80+ hours to become close friends, and 200+ hours to become good friends.
Thatâs a lot of time. Time you donât have.
Family, work, and personal pursuits probably take up the bulk of your time and energy. On any given day, youâre hard pressed to find time for anything else.
In fact, a common complaint among adults is: âBetween family, work, and exercising, how am I supposed to find time for anything else?â
Acquaintances
Before the flower of friendship blooms, the seed of acquaintance must be planted. Paraphrasing the English writer Samuel Johnson:
If you donât make any new acquaintances as you advance through life, youâll soon find yourself alone.
Social anxiety and shyness can be obstacles in making new acquaintances. Increasing isolation is another factor inhibiting acquaintance making.
Itâs hard to make friends when you donât even have the initial building block of acquaintances.
Guarded Hearts
The fear of rejection and past negative experiences can result in low trust toward new acquaintances and friendships.
Emotional walls are built slowly, brick by brick, each one shaped by past hurts and disappointments. As the years pass, those walls grow taller, until you find yourself peering out from behind them, hesitant and cautious.
Itâs not that you donât crave connectionâitâs that your heart, weathered by rejection and betrayal, has learned to be wary. The fear of being hurt again keeps you from opening the door to new friendships, even when you need them the most.
Removing the barriers
How do we reach across the widening distance of time, acquaintances, and guarded hearts to find the connection we yearn for?
The answer is simple. Make time, make acquaintances, open your heart and put yourself out there.
But simple doesnât mean easy.
You canât stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
â A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
The biggest difference will be your intention. Intentional people make plans, set priorities, and take action. If you do that, youâll be well on your way to making new friends.
Niece looks out the window and notices itâs raining.
Niece: âOh, itâs raining. My research was off.â
Me: âResearch? What research?â
Niece: âI did research this morning to see if it was going to rain.â
Me: âHow did you do your research?â
Niece, in the most matter of fact tone possible: âI asked Siri.â
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Things weâre currently being gaslit about:
Covid, Climate, Congo, Fascism, Genocide, Gun Violence, Palestine, RacismâŠmore.
Itâs really happening. And itâs being denied. Youâre not crazy.
Finished reading "This Is What It Sounds Like" by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas. This book is a musical and neuroscientific journey into what music you like and why you like it.
Here are my takeaways
Rogers' main premise is this:
Each of us has our own unique "listener profile".
(for years I intuitively came to the same idea, and called it a "musical fingerprint")
Your listener profile is the reason you love certain music. It's directly linked to your "YOUness".
Who you are as a person is greatly influenced by the music you like. And vice versa.
Your listener profile is composed of seven musical dimensions:
Aesthetic dimensions
· authenticity (it feels true or real)
· realism (what does your mind see? Abstract or Realistic?)
· novelty (familiar sounding vs novel)
Musical dimensions
· melody (the shape of the music)
· lyrics (the words in a song mean something to you)
· rhythm (how your body respond to the beat)
· timbre (what the song "tastes" like)
For each musical dimension there is a sweet spot that resonates with you.
"The sweet spots on your profile were formed through biology, experience, and happenstance. Your random neural wiring, your exposure to musical culture in the time and place you grew up, and the sheer chance of hearing *this* record and not *that* record at crucial moments in your life all shaped the kind of listener you are and influence the kind of music you can fall in love with."
Just as there is love at first sight, there's love at first listen.
You love certain songs because they hit those seven sweet spots, and you feel a powerful and instant attraction.
When you experience love at first sight or love at first listen, it's beyond liking. It's wanting. And you need more of that person or that song in your life.
"Be it records or romantic partners, we fall in love with the ones who make us feel like our best and truest self."
"It is a simple fact of both romantic courtship and record production that our very best efforts will not please everyone."
- Susan Rogers
Some music is made and felt "below the neck". It is an embodied experience that we don't think about.
Some music is made and felt "above the neck". It is cerebral and methodical.
Each can sound authentic to us.
There's a part of your brain that contains your sense of Self. One of the best ways to tap into this Self is by listening to music that resonates with the sweet spots on your listener profile.
The implication is that if you want to know yourself better, listen to your music.
Listening to music is a special form of daydreaming. When you listen to the music you love, you're transporting yourself to your favorite places and emotions. You're traveling to the core of who you are.
Music helps us know others. Their music preferences point to who they are.
Music has the power to unite us. It can help us understand each other, and it's a way for us to see each other.
When you share your music, you share a part of yourself. Including when you share your guilty pleasure songs (perhaps especially then).
Like your height or sexual orientation, your musical taste isn't a choice. It just is.
When you're honest with yourself about who you are, as well as what music you like (or don't like), then you'll be open to the expression of you.
Music is so personal, no one's musical taste is superior to another's.
Most people listen to music passively, in the background while they're doing something else.
There's so much more in this book. Stories about artists like Prince and how they make music.
Rogers explains how a record producer thinks and listens and works with an artist to make a record.
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