Category: prose

A Christmas night

  That feeling of proudness overwhelmed me when I looked around me and saw elderlies and young teens working hand in hand; giving Christmas chocolate of different shapes and flavors to the drivers and the passengers passing by, saying congratulations and blessings and drawing smiles on the many faces. My friends wore Santa’s outfit ringing… Continue reading A Christmas night

I’ve always heard of people sticking to a veg diet but never did i thought i would be one of them and that is for many reasons:

I live in an Arabic society where meat is as important as water, believe me I’m not exaggerating; In wddings,birthday parties,celebrations and funerals we cook meat.

In every dish there has to be a place for meat, with rice, with fried potatoes,with maize, with onions bread and the list goes on.

Lahme Lahme everywhere.

You may ask yourself why the sudden change? why did I become a vegetarian?

First it was a bet with my English teacher who’se vegeterian herself. I said that I can be a vegetarian for one week and I can stand the temptaion. Simultaneously I saw many videos about animal-torture ans maltreating them. And that’s how I started to be a vegetarian. One week and two days has passed since the bet and yet I didn’t eat any meat. surprisingly the free-meat diet seems to fit me well.

Generally speaking it wasn’t difficult to refuse all the meat dishes only for one exception (fkhad msahba- checkin stuffed with rice and vegetables, that’s my weak spot). Many friends  will open their jaws wide and ask curiously how could you? is it difficult? stop acting come on life would not be the same without meat. and I will reply nonchalantly it is all about the voilition you have (I don’t like to sound wise or anything but it’s true).

Will I keep being vegetarian or will I surrender? that’s a thing that the time will disclose.