Stand Up against Routine

i am writing today so that i would always remember the words of a great man. I thought the likes of this man no longer exist in our cruel world. This man is Dr Moustafa Yousef. His words gave me a new vision and a new prospective about my dreams.On June 26th, i traveled to Cairo to attend Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop at the Nile University. On our way back to Alexandria we had a friendly talk with Dr Moustafa. We talked about the educational system in Egypt. Dr Moustafa suffered a lot from this system but he always stood up against anything not logical. His purpose was to benefit students and to wake up their imagination after all these years of stupid education. This education made us stop thinking, all we care about is marks and being the first. We no longer care about helping others we turned into selfish ugly animals that find it ok to even harm others as long as it's in our benefit. Dr Moustafa explained that this is wrong, you will not benefit anything if others are not good, on the contrary you will harm your country and eventually yourself. All what matters is your grade but it won't make any difference if you got 99% or 86% as long as it is an A. He also said that it is so important to believe that you can make a difference in this world. You shouldn't be absorbed in the system. No you should stand up against routine you should do what's civilized. His words left a great impression on me.

The old man reading the newspaper

Have you ever felt you have no friends? have you ever felt that you will grow up to be old to find that you are alone?
I am sure most of us felt this way at least once in their lifetime. But what did we do about it? Most of the time we just decide that we need to be more with people and that's it. But i think it's more complex than this it's that permanent internal feel of loneliness that we all fear ,the feeling that you will spend your days lonely.
Sometimes when i am at the club i see a group of old men sitting together chatting and laughing but soon i realize there is also a man sitting alone at the corner of the room reading his newspaper. At this moment i wonder how will i be when i grow up? will i be among this group of men sitting happily together or will i be sitting alone like this man? soon after this i feel soooo depressed i know that i am not good at dealing with people. i believe i am not a good friend i don't call my friends that much and that caused me to lose a lot of friends in the past few years. i tried a lot but it came at no use. i guess i will be the old man reading the newspaper