I came home two nights ago to an empty fridge. Haven't gone grocery shopping in a while, I decided to head to the supermarket to get my meat, cheese, milk, fruits, and favorite Ciabatta bread. It took me a while to find a place to park as the place was packed with customers. It seemed odd as it's usually not that busy after 7 at night. I finally walked in to find the shelves almost empty. It looked like this nation was going to war the next day, and everyone is stocking up on food for weeks to come. I picked up some stuff and headed to the check out counter. While waiting in line I overheard customers talking about the upcoming snow storm we were supposed to get. Three feet of snow ( About 1 meter) are supposed to hit us Friday and Saturday. Ahhh, that explains it all. I haven't had a chance to watch any news last week, so I was glad I decided to stock up. Here I am, stuck in the house for 24 hours without being able to even move my car out of the garage. Looking outside my window, it seems that I'm stuck for at least two more days here. I decided to start writing and bore you with some thoughts.
Ask any macho man out there what he fears, and the answer would most likely be "nothing". If that person was religious, God will be his only exception. Most of us feel like they fear nothing and we cruise through life with that belief. Alas, fear controls our lives in more ways than we could ever imagine. Fear controls our world and our mindsets as humans. It is built into our brains. We live our lives fighting our fears. I, like many others, feared not making it in my homeland, so I decided to migrate to the U.S. The fear of running out of food drove out the masses to the supermarket before the storm. Wars, natural distasters, bad economies, and uncertainties drive prices up and cause all kinds of choas in our markets.
Any economist out there will tell you that fear is the biggest factor in world economy. Fear of war in the Arabic gulf or Iran would drive the price of oil way up, even though it may never happen. The price of gold has recently gone up because people and investors are uncertain about the stock markets, currencies, and realestate. Gold seemed the most guaranteed commodity to keep its value. Fear of this, fear of that, fear of unemployment, fear of death, fear of clowns.... and so forth. Life still goes on.
Franklin Roosevelt once said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" How true? Fear can be healthy and can lead us to making the right decisions often, but controlling our fears is the key to living a happy life. " The key to change, is to let go of fear" Can we? We sure can let go of some fear, the bad and unreasonable kind, we sure can't let go of it all. Fear is here to stay, and our job is to control it and use it to our advantage.
6 comments:
that wasn't boring.
by the way i had liver with salad today. and ofcourse couple of warms cups of milk as it suddenly went freezing here , what did u have again?
maybe u'd enjoy this too while you're stuck with no food there. :P
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This was good. Unfortunately I've hated liver since I was a kid. I made Pasta with Garlic bread yesterday, the sauce had beef, mushroom, and spices. Garlic bread with butter spread and garlic toasted in the oven. It was delicious. I cook for two days usually, so I'll have it again tonight. I got food when I went shopping, just couldn't find everything I wanted. It's below 0 here, and the snow has most roads blocked, but I work on my laptop and watch TV ora movie. Did u make the liver yourself?
no usually God comes down and cook for me..:D
i'm not a big fan of liver either, it leaves me with the taste of blood among my teeth after eating it, but u know the making blood and iron thing in the body requires eating liver when u r surronded with plastic vegetables.
i'd love to eat pasta but i grew fat easily, coz am too lazy , i don't move my legs much, so I stick to things with low calories.
yea i saw photes of the snow there, lucky you actually, better than breathing sand and having it in ur mouth.
Nope! Not boring, my friend. A very keen observation. I hope you haven't been going crazy while snowbound...it sounds from the news that Washington was hit very hard. Good luck and I hope you stocked up on enough supplies to keep yourself well fed. :)
Thank you Maria. I finally left the house today. The streets are horrible. We are getting another foot of snow tomorrow night :(. I hope you're doing well in Canada.
رهف...لاتكوني عشقانة يابنت؟ لا معكرونة ولاخبز؟ إيه... نيّالو و نيّالك
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