A Dose of Philosophy: Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

I just finished reading Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder.
This book is sooooo insightful and so amazing it will blow your mind away.
It’s like Philosophy for dummies, gives you the ideas behind each school of thought and explains it quite well.
It’s starts with the Garden of Eden, the natural [...]

Flies?

Me: Drink your chocolate milk, some people have nothing to eat like in Africa and it’s not good to waste food.
Little 7aki: So will flies come out of my eyes if I don’t drink it like in Africa? 
Me: No, flies won’t come out of your eyes if you don’t drink it.
Little 7aki: Why do the [...]

You blow it and you die

Little 7aki opened the garage door looked at her dad and said : Baba, I want to stay outside with you.
Baba 7aki who was smoking outside: No no sweetie go inside.
Little 7aki: Don’t smoke.
Baba 7aki: …. (silence).
Little 7aki: I hate smoking, throw it away.
Baba 7aki: Go inside sweetie go inside
Little 7aki: You blow it and [...]

Stand well back of the yellow line

The yellow line stops me from quiting
The yellow line stops me from leaving everything behind
The yellow line stands between me and betrayal
The yellow line wants me to conform
The yellow line wants me to cry, to scream
The yellow line makes me want to rebel
But I stand well back of the yellow line
I am 2 feet behind [...]

A conversation with little 7aki

little 7aki: I love you mama
Me: Awwwwwwww … I love you more than the sky
little 7aki: I love you more than my juice
Me: I love you more than my eyes
little 7aki: I love you more than backpack
me: I love you more than my soul
little 7aki: Mamaaaaaaaa? Do you have a soul?
Me: Yes I do
little [...]

My Right!

….”But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“Not to mention the right to grow old [...]

The Garden of The Prophet

These words have moved with me from office to office , from cubicle to cubicle form building to building ,hanging on the wall, for the past 5 years; I hope you enjoy them like I do.
“ Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and [...]

One of my favorite quotes

Do you agree with the following statement?

The most important thing about being alive:
Is that one has the opportunity to do what is right, or to do what is wrong; and that one has the power to choose; and that one has not the power to refuse that choice.

I am not

I am not my family name
I am not the high school I went to
I am not the university I went to
I am not my job
I am not my gender
I am not my clothes
I am not my watch, my shoes. my hair
I am not my weight or height
I am not my money
I am not where I [...]

Meaning of my existence

Lonely
Like a scarecrow in an empty dry field
There are no birds to scare away
No crop to protect….
Logic is ruling now
No water
No crop
No birds
So why am I here?
Burn me to feel warm
But it’s hot
Does my existence have a meaning?