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How To Be Happy With Your Mundane Life

“Accept that you will have to work hard in life and it will be boring. That pill is easier to swallow once you realize it is something that is a requirement, not optional. Accept the mediocrity and grind of life and stop resisting. Life is easier when you consent to being ground.

But also realize that there is pride in that. There is pride in going to the gym everyday, or cleaning your room, or working and studying. These things aren’t unimportant and time wasters stopping you from living your dream life. You are actually doing your best, learning how to sacrifice and being an adult. If you take a vacation after this, THEN it’ll be worth it. Contrast is everything.

Find ways to get used to boringness. Force yourself to slow down. If you are bored sit in the silence, don’t whip out your phone. Take and savor every moment now instead of wishing you had your goal.

Let go of ideals and stop wishing for perfection in everything. Don’t look for the ideal boy or girl, or get upset when you realize you’re short or have chin hairs…and are maybe not as good looking as you think you are. You’re NORMAL. Love every part of you and realize it makes you human. Improve what you can and accept the rest. This goes for job, spouse, etc.

Stop focusing so much on yourself & your happiness. Volunteer and give your time to others instead of wishing you could be doing something “fun”.

Cherish the everyday. Observe birds singing, wind blowing. Take a walk in nature. Laugh with friends and family. Imagine what it would be like to not have your eyesight (stoicism). Be grateful for what you do have. Expect nothing. Take care of yourself and rid yourself of neuroses.”

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“The Western “love” concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. But love transcends just the physical. Love is disposition, behaviour, attitude, thoughts, likes, dislikes – these things make a beautiful woman, a beautiful wife. This is the beauty that never fades. You find in your Western civilisation that when a man’s wife’s physical beauty fails, she loses her attraction”

— Malcolm X

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" ما غابوا إلا من أجل أن يكون العراق حاضراً..! "

دكتور في جامعة بابل بالعراق عن طلابه الذي غابوا عن

المحاضرة وذهبوا للمشاركة في الثورة.

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^مكتبة النساء.

ʿAbdullah ibn ʿAbdulAziz رحمه الله wouldn't sit amongst the people. He was seldom seen without a book in his hand & when he was asked about this he said,

"I have never seen a greater admonisher than the grave, anything more enjoyable than a book, or anything safer than solitude.."

جامع بيان العلم و فضله لابن عبد البر ٢٤٢٥|

Translated by Abdulwakil as-Siyari | See page

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Seven killed in attack on bus carrying Christians from monastery in Egypt
Attack took place close to where 28 worshippers were shot dead in May 2017
The Independent

for all the “security” measures the (military) Egyptian government is financing, terrorist attacks are consistently allowed to take place in rural areas/ areas far from the capital to poor people from marginalized communities. Please keep the victims and their families in your thoughts and prayers.

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Demand the Immediate Release of Prominent Palestinian Author Susan Abulhawa from Israeli Detention!
This is an urgent and time-sensitive situation. Please sign and share widely among your networks to ensure Susan's immediate and unconditional release from Israeli detention! Susan Abulhawa, the Palestinian novelist, has been denied entry at Tel Aviv Airport on her way to the Kalimat Palestinian Literature Festival sponsored in part by the British Council. Despite the help of a lawyer from the British Council, the US Embassy and the festival organizers who have been on hand to assist, she was been detained by border forces upon her arrival. She is one of the most commercially successful Arab authors of all time. Abulhawa’s 2010 debut novel Mornings in Jenin, a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years, looks unflinchingly at the Palestinian question – and became an international bestseller translated into twenty-eight languages. Susan was also a juror among a panel of internationally recognized human rights activists at the recent International People's Tribunal on US Colonial Crimes in Puerto Rico. At this point, Susan is in detention awaiting a judicial decision regarding her appeal to allow her entry. Festival organizers and the British Council have stated that her participation is a cornerstone of the festival and very much needed. We demand the immediate release of Susan Abulhawa and a guarantee that she will be able to travel and participate in the Kalimat Palestinian Literature Festival without any further incident. As a prominent Palestinian author, she deserves to be allowed to attend the Kalimat Palestinian Literature Festival in her birthright county. Below is the contact info for the US Embassy of Israel to ask that she be allowed entry to participate. (https://www.science.co.il/Embassy.php) In addition to signing this petition, please contact these US officials to demand they assist in assuring Abulhawa's speedy release and permission to travel to the festival. Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the United States 202-364-5500 David Friedman, US Ambassdor to Israel Sen. Robert Casey, PA 866-892-2833 Sen. Patrick Toomey, PA 202-224-4254 Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 202-225-4257
actionnetwork.org|Action Network

Signed!

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Butterflies of Aisha Bibi - Almagul Menlibayeva

Daughters of Turan is an exhibition of recent video and photographic work by Almagul Menlibayeva that introduces the viewer to the history and culture of the artist’s native Kazakhstan. Menlibayeva has cited video and performance artist Nezaket Ekici from Turkey as her one of the artists who have influenced her. Like Ekici Menlibayeva shows old rituals in contemporary interpretations. Instead of subverting tradition, Menlibayeva aims to demonstrate that the traditional and the modern (such as popular culture) can mutually enrich each other.
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While the majority of Kazakh artists work in relative isolation and far removed from the contemporary art scene, Menlibayeva says that her “nomadic” lifestyle – she lives and works in Almaty and Berlin – offers “a productive distance to her original culture and a language for its poetic interpretation.” The crisis of cultural identity enforced by economic disparities, nationalism, and patriarchy presents the thematic backdrop for Menlibayeva’s work. Her videos and the (related) stills she mounts in light boxes on the walls are designed to show the world her remote culture while at the same time staying clear of exoticist stereotypes.
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“The flag I was carrying is the same one I always hold in all the other protests I’ve attended. My friends make fun of me, saying it is easier to throw rocks without holding a flag in the other hand, but I got used to it.

If I get killed, I want to be wrapped in the same flag. We are demanding our right of return, and protesting for our dignity and the dignity of our future generation.”

— A'ed Abu Amro (x)

Taken by Mustafa Hassouna

@ literally all the responses to/tags on this post:

Stop romanticising that viral image of a Palestinian protester – it’s not a poetic moment

“Romanticising the image of a desperate man taking on an army allows us to justify its circumstances and distract ourselves from the grim truth that, in the real world, David rarely defeats Goliath. Aed could die today, tomorrow, or the week after that. If he keeps protesting, it is almost an inevitability.

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“In the most tasteless responses, social media users have remarked on Aed’s chiselled jaw and physique. This overt fetishisation of his suffering is obscene, but the idea that the pain and anguish of marginalised groups is a price worth paying for beautiful art is a notion far older than even the paintings of Delacroix.

“From Asad’s chemical weapon attacks in Syria, to the bodies of refugee children washed up on the beaches of Europe, images have a radical, empathy-spreading power that can change the world. But the flippant reaction this particular shot, of someone literally risking being shot, represents our growing detachment from pain and lack of collective responsibility for it.

"Don’t let this photograph fool you: there is nothing beautiful or poetic about the oppression of Palestinians. Beyond the lens, the constant misery of wasted life and unnecessary death in Gaza continues - we must not let that drift out of focus.”

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A Palestinian woman, a mother of eight, was preparing for her daughter’s wedding in two weeks, but she has been murdered yesterday by Israeli Zionist settlers who attacked her & her husband and stoned their car with rocks, near an Israeli checkpoint South of Nablus, Occupied Palestine. Note: when settlers go on a rampage like this, Israeli soldiers are always nearby to provide them with protection.

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The House that My Father Build (2010) ذلك البيت الذي بناه أبي

Iraqi Artist SADIK KWAISH ALFRAJI صادق كويش الفراجي

This extremely moving short (6:00 minute) animation film is part of the larger project featured here earlier that included a massive 6 x 4 meter painting and installation. Here, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji recalls one of the most devastating and emotional events in his life; the passing of his father. Having not been to Baghdad in 20 years, Sadik’s first return to the country and his hometown coincided with the death of his father; an experience that not only made him fully realize the role the diaspora plays in the shaping of his personality and memories, but also one that generated an existential conflict between life and death within his awareness. On this sentimental project, Sadik writes:

Once upon a time:
In the family house, and in my father’s room in particular, which was his guest room and daily sitting area, my feet shook as I entered the room after long years of expatriation. His clothes, which were hanging there in a corner, were the first things I laid eyes on. That was a very intense and emotional moment to me.
This is then what is left of my father?? 
His kufiyeh “head cover”, agal “headband”, praying beads, and traditional clothing. They were all deeply rooted in his identity and sentiment. They, with his big old collection of coffee pots made part of his dignity, respect and sense of belonging.
They were hanging there, high, tidy and clean, as always, ready to be worn, exactly as he used to hang them himself. They were leveled upright on the wall surrounded by lost ghosts and floating shadows, restless and anxious, pacing the room, swaying on the beat of his strong, deep voice which filled the room, together with the smell of fresh roasted coffee and the tunes of old sad Mawaweels.
This is then what is left of my father! A few Objects, Hundreds of memories, A grieving love which still fills my mother’s eyes, And many unfinished tales.
Continue reading the artist’s emotional statement here.
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“Your enemy is not always armed or an army. It is not always apparent. Sometimes it is: a system; an emotion; a thought; a possession; a method of life; a method of work; a way of thinking; a tool of work; in the form of productivity; a kind of consumption; a culture;cultural colonialism; religious deception; class exploitation; the mass media. Sometimes it is bureaucracy, technocracy and automation; chauvinism, nationalism or racism; the egotism of Nazism, the gold diggers of the bourgeoisie or militarism’s love of coercion. Sometimes it is the worship of pleasure, of epicurianism, of a subjective idealism or objective materialism.”

— Ali Shariati

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On this day, 2 October 1915, the mostly women workers at the weaving mill in Morozov, Russia walked out for a pay rise to compensate for the increasing cost of living. The strike spread to tens of thousands of other workers in nearby towns, who stayed out until 7 October when they received a 20% raise. More info on women’s struggles in Russia during World War I here: https://ift.tt/2Hh3cBg Pictured: Russian women demonstrate, 1917 https://ift.tt/2P14aGd