My Days. My Life.

People act differently depending on whether they are pressured or not. When not under pressure, most can think clearly. They can see things for their own, make better decisions, solve problems instead of making new ones. When pressured however, other variables kick in and our judgment isn’t usually the same. Actually usually, it’s worse.

And it’s not a bad thing. I mean, even the best of us need some time to think. Not only time, they need not consider lots of variables because the more variables that are considered, the greater chance of a wrong call being made. The worst thing about being pressured is that most our qualities kick in — even those ones we try so very hard to hide.. and they just boost out of nowhere and once they’re unleashed, it’s rrreeeeaaaalllllyyyyy hard to keep them under control.

If you really want to get to know someone, keep an eye on them when they’re pressured. It tells a lot about them.

When you ask a question, chances are 9 times out of 10 you will not be the one arriving to the answer. If you don’t know the answer to a question, give yourself some space, and try again. It’s much more valuable knowing the answer on your own.

When you’re asked a question, lead to the answer.. don’t just answer the question. This way the answer will stick around for longer.

If you know the answers to lots of questions, don’t make yourself readily available to everyone. You’ll do them more harm than good.

Too much of something you really love and you’ll probably end up hating it.

I’ve been wanting to make the move from kamasheto onto something more me-oriented, something that emphasizes my real identity rather than just a nickname or an alias I go by.

I’ve taken the biggest step by changing my email from kamasheto@gmail.com to contact@mahmoudsakr.com, but when I realized it’s not really that pretty, I was keen to find a more suitable alternative. When I realized sakr.me was available, I did not hesitate to register it. Now I can emerge from kamasheto feeling cosy and all I’ve accordingly made a move, again in less than a month, to me@sakr.me to adopt the new domain. Hopefully this will be for good!

I was just watching Swordfish and the plot was about this person who killed innocents and robbed banks to fund his acts — which were to kill/take out terrorists who affect America in any negative way (let that be by killing them, stripping them of their freedom, etc.) An example Travolta used was: if you found a cure for a global disease that is killing many people but to get that cure you had to kill one person, would you do it?

Instinctively, I figured no! Who is anyone to make that call? But if you come to think about it, looking at the bigger picture, you’ll.. or ermm, I.. started to think: if no one has the right to make that call, do all these people just die when there’s a chance for ‘em all to live?

Does the cause justify the means?

And then comes my first counter thought: when is the sacrifice worth it? If to save 10M people we had to kill 1M, is it still the same? tab 2M, 5M, 10M? Not only that, there are way more variables to consider in all this than just count: value of people!

Over the past three months I’ve been through more life-affecting events than all other events I’ve been through during the rest of my life — all combined. (Actually everything else seem like a minority now that we’re comparing!) At times like these, it’s only normal to become a different person. Not just for the time being, but lots of people change permanently. And because I had already feel myself change, momentarily, I decided maybe it would be worth the while to take it slow and keep the good changes for good, and kiss the bad changes good-bye.. or so to speak. Take things in from a new perspective in a way.

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