I sat down the chair under the window. Clouds of cigarette smock hovered over the room breeze. It looks like my soul vanishing away of me. The breeze was too thick, too heavy, and too hot. Night in September supposed to be cool. The air was thick that I felt I was breathing fire. Sweat trickled down my face. The only good thing in this night was the moonlight rays which sneaked through the window I'm sitting against.
My dreams are shattering as these smock clouds. My dreams are slipping away. It hurts to stand, and watch your dreams dying. It's like helplessly watching part of you dying. It hurts because it matters. You would talk to yourself. You would try to get close to your inner space. Hopping that you may glance something help you to figure out what is going on. But all you can see is failure, and emptiness.
Do you know why emptiness is the worst thing ever? Because if there was something to deal with – something to face – is better than having nothing. If there was something broken, it would be fixed. If there was an issue, it would be solved.
If I was not fine, I would listen to the divine voice inside me. I would hear it begging me for peace. And I would reply: Years from now you will regret seeking for peace, instead of seeking for scholarship. Then there would be a silence, and the voice would reply: I want the scholarship. But I need peace for sometimes. And just like that, my divine inner voice threw me confusion. I would be paralyzed between what I want, and what I need.
I believe there's nothing called failure, just like the fact that there's no darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. Darkness doesn't exist, light does. So failure doesn't exist. Failure is a state of the absence of success, passion, and ambitious. So I suppose failure people don't have to conquer a being called "Failure" They just need to gather the elements of success.
I stopped chasing my dreams, because everything I used to believe in has fallen apart – collapsed. I would be a fool, if I pretended the other way around.
I trust the divine voice within me. I'm neither failure nor empty. Or at least I didn't use to be. I understand that this is not me, and it just a period of crisis.
I would sit in peace. Listening to music. Visiting the Masjid and the Church, if I urged to. I would feel profoundly happy. This is exactly what I need at the present time. I had enough of competing and stress. When finishing the high school, in Egypt, you usually feel being damaged. You would need to recharge your battery, recall your passion, and move on to get back to new beginning. I need a melody. Or precisely I need to find my own melody in the rhythm of life.