I Could've Made Friends with the Women in Black
My depression is the ugliest, most unfriendly, most inconsiderate thing. Yesterday, I was a bitchy snob to three kind, well-meaning women.
I woke up feeling fine. It was going to be an okay day. And then I took a nap and seemed to get up on the wrong side of the bed. I awoke from my nap when my dad got home. For some reason, I was feeling not good so when my dad mentioned he was going to go running, I felt like I wanted to just stay home. But since I have, for the past days, been dying to go to the beach, I told my dad I wanted to go.
Now, I really was feeling not good. And all of a sudden. I don't know why. So I walked down that beach feeling empty and wanting to cry. After all my walking, I decided to stop and sit on these big rocks. I was there, minding my own business, actually shutting out the rest of the world when three girls seemed to have noticed something was bothering me. They looked like your typical Muslim mideastern women- dressed in all black with the abaya and the veil (of course, with pants and t-shirt underneath); they were obviously female Omanis. They tried in vain to catch my attention and I even heard one of them say, "Why are you crying?" They had sat down on the same set of big rocks and seemed like they were waiting for me to mind them or get up. But I was not in the mood to get acquainted with people and I did not want to talk to anyone. I selfishly wanted to keep to myself. So I did not say a word and literally waited for the three concerned women to leave.
I feel so bad for those three ladies now.
In other news, yesterday was also the Olympic Torch Relay at Muscat. This year, Muscat is the only mideastern capital selected among several international cities around the world to be part of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. I caught some TV footage of this historical event on an Arabic news channel and it seemed like everything went well at Oman's first olympic torch relay. There were no protests as in the other countries. China, this year's host for the heavily anticipated Olympics, is being criticised, not only for its treatment of Tibet, but also for other human rights issues and for its huge carbon emissions.
I woke up feeling fine. It was going to be an okay day. And then I took a nap and seemed to get up on the wrong side of the bed. I awoke from my nap when my dad got home. For some reason, I was feeling not good so when my dad mentioned he was going to go running, I felt like I wanted to just stay home. But since I have, for the past days, been dying to go to the beach, I told my dad I wanted to go.
Now, I really was feeling not good. And all of a sudden. I don't know why. So I walked down that beach feeling empty and wanting to cry. After all my walking, I decided to stop and sit on these big rocks. I was there, minding my own business, actually shutting out the rest of the world when three girls seemed to have noticed something was bothering me. They looked like your typical Muslim mideastern women- dressed in all black with the abaya and the veil (of course, with pants and t-shirt underneath); they were obviously female Omanis. They tried in vain to catch my attention and I even heard one of them say, "Why are you crying?" They had sat down on the same set of big rocks and seemed like they were waiting for me to mind them or get up. But I was not in the mood to get acquainted with people and I did not want to talk to anyone. I selfishly wanted to keep to myself. So I did not say a word and literally waited for the three concerned women to leave.
I feel so bad for those three ladies now.
In other news, yesterday was also the Olympic Torch Relay at Muscat. This year, Muscat is the only mideastern capital selected among several international cities around the world to be part of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. I caught some TV footage of this historical event on an Arabic news channel and it seemed like everything went well at Oman's first olympic torch relay. There were no protests as in the other countries. China, this year's host for the heavily anticipated Olympics, is being criticised, not only for its treatment of Tibet, but also for other human rights issues and for its huge carbon emissions.