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I 'am back!
It's been a long time ago. A lot has happen, it feels like I had a smaller personal earthquake in my life or something..But I am finally back now.
Among many nice thoughts I had when I was a kid, is that if you do find real strong love and relationship, if you find a person that is the right one.. Although it might not be so easy to find, it will last and stay strong.
Well.. Now as I am growing older I learn of course that life is much less simple and more cruel than that. I wonder if I am one of few people here, or does this happen to many of us: a moment when you realize you have most probably found the person you are most suited for, the person you will be most comfortable with and happy..
And it's over! So you start wondering, if even that didn't work out...
Of course though, you can never say never, there is always a probability that there is a person out there just as good or even better, after all we are much more than many many millions here on earth, but chances of you really meeting such a person are not so big in real life.
My father told me when trying to comfort me earlier, how there are good and bad sides in everything. The old stile arranged marriages -might- save a lot of energy, time and heartache. . And he is right, I realized smiling.
After all, you never know how things turn up, it's never easy. And me, I've heard that I am difficult many times. It's very hard for me to find someone I like in that way, almost impossible..To find anyone I am even attracted to. And some older ladies who have been worried I will end up alone have warned me about being too stubborn and demanding with their pointed fingers.
But still, I guess you should never say never, or at least never try..
And I realize I have some more problems a head. I can't stand anything that feels the least "arranged" or "forced". I can't go on a date. Cause than I know it is a date. The romance is more or less already forced up on the meeting, cause it's a date, whether I enjoy my company or not.
It just feels too awkward and destroy any chances from the beginning. And the worse kind of date is in a typically romantic cafeteria with a rose on the table and love music playing. The typical other place for dating is a nice park bench, that's fine if you already have a relation, but if you are not yet, and you are not sure you even like your company then the awkwardness increases a lot. Unfortunately for me, most dates in Syria look like that.
And in the begging of a relationship, the first 4 or 5 months, I don't like holding hands in romantic places! And I can't stand hiding or sneaking behind any family when calling or meeting. I don't need to, and I can't stand people who think that I should need to.
For me, all that sneaking and just holding hands hiding in cafeterias with a forced atmosphere and just walking around without a goal just to be together far away from certain eyes,and only do that over and over again, as I see many young people do...
The whole thing feels unnatural and meaningless to me. It's like building an imaginary house of paper, that almost never holds in reality. Love of paper.
But what do I want than? I want more guys and girls to be able to meet easily in groups as friends, spent more time together, and often, so you have a chance of meeting a person you like, a friend of a friend or what ever, and having the chance of knowing him better first in a more relaxed way than an awkward romantic date. And I want families to back off and let people do that!
And when it is a relation..I still don't want no romantic silly dates. I like to be more practical. I like going out together to the market on streets or to food stores and buying food together we prepare later in either mine or his house, and the family to back off and not be afraid of leaving us alone in the kitchen. I don't want to see the guy all dressed up for a cafeteria date, but I prefer seeing him relaxed in his house cooking with me , or tired wearing pygmies late a Friday night watching a movie we rented earlier and drinking tee with me, and if we love each other we should be able to have our arms around each other without anyone thinking it's improper.
When I am sick I can call him and we can spend time together when I am bored in my room and need him to bring me a cold wet towel to put on my forehead, even in the early morning when we both look less fresh before getting any shower and coffee..
And thank god..It is far from all families who control their grown up children in everything and makes them have no option but to hide and sneak to meet guys or girls, but still...It could be much much better!

7 Comments:
I believe that the old stile arranged marriages is totally the fault of men, never women, they r the source of this problem!Orientel men are orientel whatever! Nothing will change!
Hi! It's nice to have comments on this:)
Oh I don't know...I am hopefull sometimes. Even if they don't, it's time more women act!
About arranged marriages, well it's funny how sometimes life turn up..I Mean as I said there are good and bad sides in everything, it would be comfortable to be spared all the heartache and time and energy looking for someone..But on the other hand, uoi just never know..
first of all great to have you back ... and hmm .. that was an interesting post ... it's always great to find unique non typical people around here with unique ideas
romance if about a sparkle i guess... and it can be fired between two people in a bus station then dies ... or it can go on ... or it can start on an arranged relationship
but romance acts are decisions to be made.. they do not happen by themselves :P
eh.. it's about time Cathrine.. I've been coming here everyday wondering when you'll be back...
I spent the first few years of my university life looking for that ultimate relationship.. and worked very hard on it, got hundreds of heartbreaks and disappointments.. and then.. finally when I stopped looking and went on with my life, it all fell into place and I found this utopia (and got engaged to this utopia a few months ago, after seven years of long distance relationship)..
I think that it's time to put an end to this 70's feminist propaganda about guys being the evil heartless creatures .. we do get heartaches too.. we all want love, and believe me NO GUY ever prefers marrying a complete stranger to someone he knows, likes (and I'm using politically correct words in here)..
it is all about that first glance in the morning.. when you open your eyes and you look at the other head on the next pillow.. if you don't feel content that this face fills your heart with peace.. then your marriage is a big lie..
we all want the same thing, it is only how we look for it and how we are trained to deal with it that makes the end result what it turns out to be.
so no, ghalia.. I will have to disagree with you.. Oriental men are just men.. and men are just humans, and we all have the same needs and wishes.. but it is society that makes people who they are.. and arranged marriages (and I am talking from an experience of being the last one of my friends to be married) is a social construct that we invented to cover the fact that we lack the social skills to deal with the other sex..
is it men that create the problems?
in western terms.. women accuse men to be the cheaters.. and forget thet men can't cheat with themselves. they need another woman to do it with.. so the equatio doesn't go one direction only...
in the eastern traditions.. who decides about the "specifications" of the potential wife of the family's son? the father? hell no.. it is the mother and the sisters that control this social imbalance.. and they are the ones that seeks arranged marriages.. so why blame men then? if women are the ones that hurt the most from this unjust system.. why inflict the same punishment that they had on their son's wife?
believe me.. I know alot of guys who had to go through arranged marriages, and had to marry someone they don't even know (and most probably leave somneonne they already know and love) cos their mother decided that this girl he chose is not good enough for her son..
those people have lost the joy of life.. they are all men, they are all orientals.. and most of them went through arranged marriages.. and they all have scars of broken love affairs that they couldn't fulfill...
welcome back :)
"I wonder if I am one of few people here, or does this happen to many of us: a moment when you realize you have most probably found the person you are most suited for, the person you will be most comfortable with and happy..
And it's over!"
I referred to that person as "the one that got away".
Thank you Omar and Dody, I'm glad to be back!
WEll Omar I agree...It's not ONLY the fault of men, and not all men are alike ofcourse..But I still would love to put some women cloth on ALOT of men and make them try how it is...All the times I met a guy wanting to have a girlfriend but not really glad about his sister having a boyfriend..
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