New Year's Resolution

They say New Year’s Day is every man’s birth. It’s a time where everyone tends to look back at there past and more importantly seek to improve their future. New year’s eve gives us the opportunity for a new beginning. It creates for us a favorable circumstance to reflect on the change we need in our lives as well as a good fortune that helps us make peace with ourselves before the others. As an optimistic, throughout my childhood and a few teenage years, I use to wait every New Year’s Eve until midnight to welcome the New Year with joy and faith. Faith to be a better year, blessed with welfare and mercy.

 Unfortunately, this year, I acted like a pessimist. I was counting down every second until midnight to watch 2011 finally leaving. To me, the second after midnight was exactly like the second when a policeman arrests a danger thief. Making sure that 2011 will never be back, I started stating how bad this year was or even how awful our country is just like a small kid annoying a locked dog knowing that he won’t be able to hurt him.

Basically, this New Year’s Eve was not more than a change of a calendar and not like every year a symbol of a better tomorrow. So obviously I didn’t came up with a New Year resolution. I felt that people took this calendar change as a reason to have a better tomorrow or a brighter future. Personally, I believe that we can have a better tomorrow every day. Life changing decisions are not meant for New Year’s only. Waiting for New Year’s to change is like a nonchalance student waiting for a new semester to start working just because his too lazy to begin immediately. But the thing is, if you keep postponing your decision, you’ll never get to do them.     

However, I took this assignment as an obligation to think of a New Year’s Resolution or maybe to reflect on a simple change I need in my life. Eventually, it’s obvious that my definition about New Year’s  was changed due to what happened in 2011.  So I decided to try to refresh my memory and remember my old definition about New Year’s Eve. Also, I determined myself to look at the bright side of 2011 and open my eyes on the great lessons taught by this unique year. As a result, I decided to start being thankful and grateful for what I have and have faith that every thing happens for a reason instead of whining and bragging all the time. 

Globalization

Everyday we hear about a developing theory called globalization. This theory affects the whole world in either a direct or an indirect way. Yet, many people can’t identify what’s the “globalization”. Basically, this system encourages the contact between different nations. It promotes favorable circumstances to   exchange various resources between countries.  

Eventually, like any other “theory”, the globalization owns advantages as well as disadvantages. Starting with the benefits of the globalization, we can observe that it helps linking the nations to each other. Not only through economic cooperation but also through trade, religious, philosophy, biological organisms as well as many other things. Obviously, this system increases economic cooperation, which leads to better connections between countries. This aspect helps promoting world safety and security by creating political relationships. Furthermore, using this system, developed countries can help those who are underdevelopment. On the other side, globalization has several disadvantages. To start with, globalization increases the spread of different diseases around the world in an insignificant time such as the Black Plague. Moreover, starting from the 1600’s, the system was no longer based on trading natural resources only but trading humans also. In fact, globalization provides slavery. In addition, it has transpired that the globalization is one of the most important factors of the environment degradation due to their illegal disposal of dangerous materials that could definitely terminate on the natural resources. At last but not least, economic measures become a pressure weapon in international disputes. In fact, it exerts social and ethical pressure on developing nations.

Accordingly, this topic represents a great contravention because of its two sides. Firstly, globalization helps linking countries as well as helps improving the under developed ones. That why there are many people who believe that globalization will create a “utopian world society”. On the other hand, nations who are involved in the exchanging processes are somehow forces to have the same social norms. As a result, there is a hug cultural integration. Eventually, many other people believe that globalization will “cause the obliteration of less-dominant cultures”. As for my point of view, globalization benefits many countries all around the world. Also, It promotes safety by creating political relations between nations. Additionally, it gives a hand for under-developed countries and helps their growth. However, it doesn’t give the developing countries the complete liberty to choose their own way of developing as well as there own culture. But, at the end of the day nothing is perfect. We have to accept some situations and integrate into them until finding another solution.

An honorable Christmas

On christmas eve everyone tends to go by their own traditions, hence their own roads. As for myself, my road lead me to my second home. I personally spent a unique and unforgettable night as well as a blessed one with my best friend's family. Listening to christmas carols while gathering and talking around the dinner table, and especially laughing out loud made me feel that christmas is a necessity. I felt for a moment that I wasn't here, sitting in this place just to spend a quality time but to share my love and happiness with people I care about. I was alerted that there has to be at least one day of the year to be dedicated for something else besides ourselves which is christmas day. By then, as an amazingly wrapped family, we started taking some memorable pictures while unwrapping the gifts. At last, we enjoyed playing pictionary all night. That  night made me open my eyes as I opened my gift on an amazing bright side in my life. In general, christmas eve as the whole winter break made me realize how much I'm blessed to have an amazing group of friends as well as having a certitude that I'll never be alone. To conclude, since that christmas, I no longer love christmas but honor it.