خَرَجَ و لَم يَعُد

“All of us are immigrants spiritually.”

“The person who makes a life career in such an institution lives in an “iron cage.” Or, to use another analogy, the lived time in a fixed-function organization is like slowly crawling up, or down, the stairs in a house you have not designed; you are living someone else’s design for your life. In the Protestant Ethic, Weber explains specifically why a person would do so: bureaucracies teach the discipline of delayed gratification. Instead of judging whether your immediate activities matter to you, you learn to think about a future reward which will come if you obey orders now.[…] in Weber’s view, the future gratifications and fulfillments promised in domestic bureaucracies often never arrive. He gives this frustration a subjective twist; a person who has learned the discipline of delay often cannot permit himself to arrive. Many driven individuals harbor this perverse sentiment. They feel whatever they have is not good enough, and they are incapable of enjoying the present for its own sake; delay of fulfillment becomes a way of life.”

كأنما خُلِقَتْ من جلد لؤلؤةٍ

“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”

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no one: alaz: i hate the french