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Letters to Notes
Letters to Notes
- By Amal Al Shehhi
- Published: 00:34 April 20, 2008
A piece from someone's diary
Every Sunday morning and I would get up to go to school, difficult life that I have ha!
I just hate the sound of the alarm and wish to break it into little pieces and get back to sleep to continue my lovely dreams.
Now I ask myself, is this what I really want to do? Of course not! It's not easy to escape from reality. Reality is what we face in life whether it's good or bad.
Well, I've been through a lot of harsh experiences — waking up in the morning to go to school.
I worked really hard until I finished high school with a pretty good degree! I joined one of the universities here in the UAE and I noticed the changes between school and college but once again I still wake up every morning and always leave my dear bed and my sweet dreams "to be continued"!
Who's running my life?
Sometimes strange ideas come to me and with a soft voice tell me to quit studying and spend the rest of my life waiting for that prince charming to come along to take me away on his white horse far away from here! Wow, what a thought! Is this how I want my life to be? Were all my struggles to wake up every morning a waste of time? Is that why I'm here? Of course not. I'm the one who decides what I want?
And these words from a book called A Warrior of the Light : A Manual by Paulo Coelho keeps running in my head: 'A warrior of light makes decisions, His soul is as free as the clouds in the sky, but he's committed to his dream.'
And I'm committed to mine. The warrior hears someone saying, "I need to understand everything before I can make a decision; I want to have the freedom to change my mind."
'A warrior regards these words suspiciously; He too can enjoy the freedom, but this does not prevent him from taking on a commitment, even if he does not quite know why he does so.'
"A warrior of light makes decisions, His soul is as free as the clouds in the sky, but he's committed to his dream;" on his freely chosen path, he often has to get up earlier than he would like, speak to people from whom he learns nothing, makes certain sacrifices. "His friends say: 'You're not free'
The warrior is free, but he knows that an open oven bakes no bread.
- Amal Al Shehhi
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