Makeup

Happy First Day of Spring! 

     I am not afraid to say I was wrong. I was wrong when I said that women wear makeup for men. I have realized that not all women are like that and it was very wrong of me to accuse everyone of that. I will most probably never change my opinion on makeup. I am 100% against it. But it has taken me a while to finally learn that women wear it for self confidence. Women look at themselves and say "I'm not perfect." They think that makeup will solve all of their problems. That is not true. Makeup will just create more problems. Some makeup actually hurts your skin and damages it. Why are we wearing something that will make us fake? Don't you want people to look at you and say "Wow! She's not wearing makeup! She's all natural! That's her real face! It's so much more beautiful than the lipstick, mascara, eyeliner and blush that she would wear!" Don't you want people to see the real you and say to themselves that you're more beautiful without makeup? Why should makeup be our only source of self confidence? Phoebe Baker Hyde stopped trying to make herself even more "perfect". She "Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World without Concealer, and Learned to Love the Real Me". 

She felt more confident than ever. She even wrote a book about it called The Beauty Experiment . We should all embrace the real us. There are better ways to gain confidence. 

Take it Off or Leave

Before I start my little rant, I'd like to apologize to you guys for not posting in a long time. I will try to post at least once a month because right now, I just post when I feel like it. 

     Where has the time gone? It's March! We're so much closer to summer break than I thought! Anyways, this Quebec judge refused to listen to this muslim woman's side of the story because she refused to take off her hijab. Apparently, religious garments are "not suitable for a court proceeding". How? Going to a court in a bikini would be not suitable. That would be very inappropriate but I'm not going to get in to the whole half naked thing. The hijab isn't going to harm you. Nor would a kippa. Nor would a cross. I say  if it's not inappropriate or harming you, it's fine. The woman was in court because her son was driving with a suspended license. They took her car away. She was there simply to request to have it back. The judge told her it was either take off your head scarf or go home. Quite an easy decision to me. I would never allow myself to be ordered around like that. When I wear the hijab, it will become part of me. Let's make a different scenario. I really do not mean to offend anyone with this scenario. A tan person is in court and the judge refuses to listen to them because of their race. Is that fair? No! Their skin is part of them. They cannot change that. Same with women wearing hijabs. Once a woman is wearing a hijab, it is a part of her. She enjoys having it on her because she believes that by sticking to her religion, she will go to Heaven. People saying to close the borders to immigrants and that she is not a true Canadian, nobody is. Everyone living in Canada had ancestors who immigrated from Europe. The only true Canadians I know of are the people who were already in Canada before the Europeans came. And if people want to rid Canada of immigrants, I think I'd like to leave by choice. Real Canadians are accepting of different cultures, religions and races. You don't have to like my opinion. You just have to hear it and open your mind to different points of views. My family came from Egypt. They wanted to give my siblings and I our best chance. They wanted us to get a proper education. They wanted us to be safe. Now that people aren't accepting of us, we aren't safe. Ever heard of the Chapel Hill shooting? The murderer wasn't accepting of Islam and look what happened to them. They're gone. If you're not happy with immigrants, don't show it. Keep your feelings in. Bottle them up because if they come out, there will be consequences. Maybe if you keep them bottled up, they'll change. If they change to the better, let them go. If they change to the worse, keep them in. 

Read the Yahoo post: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/quebec-judge-wouldnt-hear-case-212817615.html?vp=1

January 25

Tomorrow is the day.
Let me take you back to a time we call the Egyptian Revolution.
There we were. All religions together as Egyptians fighting for our freedom. Fighting to get rid of the one force of evil we knew at the time, Hosni Mubarak. The streets of Egypt filled with Egyptians who just wanted their freedom. Hosni Mubarak had ruined their country enough for them. The Egyptians took it into their own hands, or should I say their own hand. They were one hand. They were one hand. They were together. Mubarak ordered the MILITARY to eliminate the people. Mubarak killed so many people just for power. He imprisoned his own people for wanting the best for their country. To this day, I have no idea how he was called "innocent". We finally got what we wanted February 14, 2011.  I was happy. Everyone was happy. They were still together as one. But this story didn't end at and they lived happily ever after.  There we were. Having our first proper election. Mohamed Morsi was voted as president. He was actually quite nice and we were happy... at first. The media insulted him. I have to admit, Morsi didn't do as much as we wanted. The people were blinded by the media. The military stepped in and got rid of him. Nope. Still no happily ever after. El-Sisi made people believe that he was like a much loved but horrible previous president, Gamal Abdel Nasser. El-Sisi won that election. Now, anybody who says anything he disapproves of on TV or even on social media, they're in great danger. Today, we aren't one hand. We constantly blame each other for things El-Sisi and his military have done. I passionately hate you, El-Sisi. Arrest me, I'm saying my opinion. You are a brainwashing maniac. You are a greedy power seeking man. I hate you and if you were in front of me right now, I would gladly kick your butt. I hate you will all my heart. You could've gained the proper kind of trust from the people. You could've actually been the one president who didn't make major mistakes! Instead, you chose to do the exact thing we were fighting for back in 2011. We wanted freedom of speech. We lost that. We wanted a fair leader. We never even got much of that either. It's you greedy villains who are destroying what we used to call a country. You know what you are? You are evil. I can't believe anyone actually likes you.

#Iamegypt

♩ ♬ ❅ ❆ Let It Go ❅ ❆ ♪ ♫

     Recently, I have started to paint more. It's fun. I enjoy painting because I get to express my emotions in my art. I don't paint to make money. I paint to show people what goes on in my mind. Sometimes, my feelings are well guarded. In a painting I called Flight of the Thunderbirds, it expresses all the emotions I was feeling when I painted it. I originally painted a few simple seagulls, like the ones you probably drew as a kid. That m shaped thing? That's it. Then, I splattered different colours, angry and sad colours, on to them as if they don't know which direction to go because they can't see. It was based on how I felt like I couldn't please everyone. I couldn't choose. The red represented how angry I was that certain people didn't treat me the way I felt like I should be treated. The blue represented how confused I was about what to do and how depressed I felt.  To this day, I still don't know why I just can't deal with decision making. When it's something simple, I can easily pick. But when it's bigger, you'd think I'd be able to decide but instead, it feels as if I'm carrying a weight on my shoulders and I'm pressured to decide. When I talk about my problems to someone, it feels as if they're helping me carry the weight on my shoulders. Sometimes, it feels as if the weight completely disappears. I guess the moral of this not-so-story is that you shouldn't hold in what's bothering you. Let it go.

Help the Homeless

     When I walk through the streets of Canadian cities, they all have some things in common. Like people without homes sitting against a wall with a Tim Hortons cup in their hands waiting for someone to notice them. Nearly everyone does. But nearly everyone tries to ignore them. They are humans too! If you don't want to give them money, at least smile or say hello. You can't ignore them like they're some sort of animal. Because they're not. Whatever reason they have for needing money is not important. They have lives. It could make their day just for you to smile or give them money. You could offer to take them to a shelter. Anything but leave them the same way you saw them. A smile can make someone's day. My mother always told me never to ignore them. So listen to the wise, old woman (Sorry mom!). She's experienced plenty and I'd love to have her be writing with me right now. The Canadian government is also trying to stop poverty but it isn't so easy. They need US to help them. We can help change lives if we just stopped and donated money, or clothes or even food. We can help others in need even if they are at the other side of this planet. I'm asking all of you to please take some time to donate to charities. Together, we can help bring back World Peace. It existed once. It can exist again.

Injustice

Apologies if my opinion on this situation offends you. 

     I had writers block today. Then suddenly, it all clicked. I believe you are familiar with Hosni Mubarak? Former president of Egypt. A real jerk if you ask me. I'm not too happy about the current president either, or the brain washing government and media. Let's just get back to Mubarak.  In 2011, The Egyptian Revolution was all over the news. Many people joined the protests here in Canada. My family went to protest.  I had made quite a few posters. Here's one of them. It says "Thousands of people V.S. 1 Hosni Mubarak"

It was pretty clear all the Egyptians saw him as a horrible president back then. When the revolution ended and Mubarak decided to resign, we were happy. More than happy. We knew we had succeeded.  The Egyptians joined as one against Mubarak. What happened? Now they're all fighting over what's right and what's wrong that they forgot how they had protected each other back in 2011. Mubarak was sent to jail. Then we got a new president. He didn't do much to us. He was forced to resign and we got another president. This guy, El-Sisi, wants everyone to love him. He's literally obsessed with money. He makes tv channels praise him and if they even say 1 thing that bothers him, that tv channel would be like it never existed. As our friends in the U.K would probably say...

Gotta agree with them. El-Sisi is making opinions illegal. Even worse, the Egyptians seem to have forgotten all the pain they went through to get rid of Mubarak because at his trial, he was declared innocent.

If I remember correctly, he was the one who threw the tear gas at the protesters, right? He was the one who ordered people to kill the protesters, right? That doesn't seem like innocent to me. Innocent is someone who would never kill someone else for money or take things that aren't rightfully theirs.
Let me just remind you. Doesn't the government of Egypt still lock up and torture the people who disagree with the president? Looks like the government isn't too innocent either.
     I just hate Mubarak so much. He helped create this mess. Or was it already there in the first place? I guess I'll never know. As a daughter, I would beat up anyone who makes my mother cry. How am I going to get to the Egyptian government? Egypt deserves JUSTICE. We have to do something about this. Some people are getting divorced because their spouse has different political views. Stupid? I think so, too. I wish things were different. I wish things were fair.

Thank You Mom & Dad

     Wow it's been a while hasn't it? Yeah. I'm not too good with schedules...
Okay. So today, I'd like to say thank you to the people who raised me, my parents. They're constantly pushing me to do my best. They help me with homework and I know that I can always go to them when I have a problem. I know sometimes I can be a little rude to them and sometimes we'll get in fights but in the end, I love them. They taught me to walk. They taught me to talk. They taught me manners and are always teaching me new things. They're on their feet all day doing things to support our family and they never get to rest. Even when they come back home from work. They're not paid to cook for us. They're not paid to do anything for us. But they still do it. I don't know how I'll ever thank them for all they've done for me. They completely supported me in all my decisions.  I know this was really short but here's why I wrote it.
     Most teenagers feel that they're ready for independence. They think they know everything. They don't. Our parents are wiser. They are humans too. Fighting with them won't get you anywhere.  It'll only hurt their feelings. We have to take the time and thank them. We have to take the time and tell them we love them. Someday, they won't be here to help us when we need them the most. Let's make the most of the time we have left with them.

And remember.

Don't raise your voice on the people who taught you how to talk.