My Diploma

Life has taught me to waste no time envying others for what they have and appreciate the fact that I am blessed with special things of my own. Life has taught me that places and loved ones maybe blown up, but vivid memories are indelible and timeless. Life has taught me to wish for my brother/sister what I wish for myself. Life has taught me to read the inscription engraved on every person’s forehead, including mine, “I Matter”. Life has taught me that selfishness breeds arrogance and arrogance breeds bigotry and bigotry breeds unnecessary bloodshed. Life has taught me that I may be right and others might be wrong, and I may be wrong and others might be right. Life has taught me blue blood does not exist; my deeds are who I am. Life has taught me that it is made of ups and downs; too much of each is equally creepy. Life has taught me that I will wind up six-feet-under; a prelude to bitter or sweet end based on what I have learned from the school of life.

In contrast, life in Iraq has opened my eyes to the fact that people hold funerals for bricks and gilded domes, but human souls must deal with the fact that they are but faceless numbers. Life in Iraq has made me see my seemingly monotheist nation littered with neo and would-be lords with hordes of robots, who know for sure they are doomed to be tossed in junkyards once their votes and lives are depleted, but they would not care less as long as their revered lords are climbing their shoulders safely with heartfelt pledges to be their one-way ticket to heaven.


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