Since several months and I don't follow the Iraqi political
affairs. I was surprised to read today in the journal that we still don't have
a minister of defense (Army), nor a minister of internal affairs (Police). This
is the case since two years. Our politicians don't trust each other.
I flipped the news paper to read an article by Sarmad
Al-Taey which starts with the following lines: "The Middle East is not
missing anything but more wars". The article talks about the Iraqi government
reactions to the changes in our area. Such a gloomy article in the morning bus
going to my first day of work since my summer vacation.
By accident (accident?) I was carrying with me a collection
of lectures by Sigmund Freud collected under the title of one of them:
"Reflections on War and Death". Freud, at the first world war,
started talking about THANATOS. About the second instinct we got. But the lines
of his lecture were not so gloomy since I found phrases about how the citizen
of the developed world can attend to "the graceful art of Beautifying
life" and, "… the sense of law of order that had made man master of
the earth". Freud ended the second part of the lecture by a phrase:
"If you wish life, prepare for death."
After this frank brave lecture that I read thrice in a
matter of two days I decided that I need some company. I went down to meet my neighbors.
I knew that a brother of one of our neighbors was killed by four bullets in the
neck before yesterday. We went together to our neighbors' house and gave him
our condolence.
We went back and sat together near our houses. After some
silence Shoushou approached. She wanted E. to get her her dinner. E. went up to
his apartment and he was sorry that all he got was frozen sausages. I commented:
"she will like it, it will be like an ice-cream for her".
We chatted and laughed.
When I went up I saw the supplement of today's journal (al
Mada journal, my favorite), which shows a Swedish poet that merely heard his
name before and never read a poem of his. I tried to read one but I didn't find
it good. What I liked about the picture is that he got a stroke that affected
his right hand but he still plays piano with the left.
2 comments:
Do you know what the most made me laugh??
Is that we still dont have these two ministers. hehhehehehehe
I really just knew that, from your post line!!!
HA HA HA
Hello Sandybelle, thank you for the visit. Yes, it is a strange to a degree of laughing how our politicians run this country. Hope you are good. Take care friend.
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