Torn Cleopatra

Egyptians tend to be more emotional sentimental and easily won over by just a few words of sweetness. When dealing with an Egyptian all u need to do is give them a pat on the back

give them a look of appreciation, like u recognize their humanity. Just one nice word and a sparkly eye shines and a huge teethful smile appears.In return you will win his heart and gain a lot of prayers from him as he prays before he sleeps.

You will be the subject of his family on the dinner table in a good way. They think of a nation to be a monster until the new president comes and talks a few words in arabic. Wait a minute why am I saying "they"? Actually it is we!

We appreciate it so much when the west respects us.We never forget any good word about our country, our culture and our religion coming from a westerner.

It is so easy to win us over.

It is so easy for us to love u.

But we are very lazy.

We have very little ambition as a people.

We are very judgmental.

We have to comment an any one with a mild difference in appearance or attitude and we do need a strict leader to reform us.

When we are in any other country we follow rules like everyone else.

We even drive properly.

We have to complicate everything.

We can not live a simple life.

There are so many dynamics to our life in Egypt, that in the end we are depressed.

We think niceness is a weakness so we protect our selves.

If we are rich we live in a closed, closed society and we keep seeing the same faces over and over.

If we are poor we live to serve.

We want everything delivered to us at our doorstep.

We complain and complain about our situation and do nothing about it

We look up to those who are from us but started to lose our language

,anything coming from the west we adore.

We look egyptian, walk like egyptians, but we r so happy when people do not think we are egyptian when we travel.

We are so attached to our families that it is sick.

We spoil our children with a walking slave that is waiting for their every wish twenty four hours of the day, if we can afford it.

Our elite do not respect our celebrities and look down on them.

Sixty percent of our married couples end in divorce, because life in cairo is too complex.

Those who can be part of government and make a difference have given up a long time ago and are afraid of prison.

We alienate each other.

We love to laugh at one another.

We sing songs about Arab unity however do not identify as Arabs.

We are torn between the west and our culture and traditions

Most of us are kind but complexity has ruined our daily life.

We judge anyone with a different dress code or belief system.

Even the normal hello we managed to complicate it.

There are those who shake hands 

There are those who kiss, and there are those who wave from a distance.

You r stuck trying to find out which type of person you are faced with.

That is just the sad generalization.

I wish life in my country was easier, I wish it was simpler, I wish it was cleaner, I wish it was a life with no unnecessary complications.

I wish it was a life without a layer of dust on all our heads , without the intruders, without the gossipers, without the bullies, the synicals, the negative, the cowards, the close minded and the spectators who watch your every move and every thing u wear, with out the analaysers who think it is their job to analyse u and your every life choice.

I wish the egyptians would be the same fun people that they become when they travel. My sister said it there is no room for us in our country, I wonder if she was right.