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Friday, November 25, 2005

HOW DID I BECOME THIS BORING PERSON

I really cannot believe I wrote this essay more than two years ago (almost three). Not that it’s well-written, but the content is well, prophetic! I remembered it today and after reading it I got depressed. http://www.wts-online.com/before/essays/04012003_4.htm

11 Comments:

  • At 8:37 AM , Hosam said...

    I can't believe you watched Kudlow and Kramer.

     
  • At 10:49 AM , Abdulaziz Alnaim said...

    Each one of them alone is terrible (I hate both), but together they're fun to watch.

     
  • At 11:22 AM , Jawad Al-Najjar said...

    Help me out here, what are trying to say? That you're not satisfied with the way your life has turned out? That you're freaked out by how accurately you planned your life? That you're stunned but don't see the need for change? What?

     
  • At 1:53 PM , Hamad Mohawis said...

    take it like a man, aziz. but answer me this:
    would you hit it?

     
  • At 1:12 AM , Jo said...

    Did your life really turn out EXACTLY how you described it in the essay???
    Dunno why bas I feel like you need some sort of adventure lol somethin' like goin 2 Africa or China... I think am chattin crap lol

     
  • At 11:34 AM , Abdulaziz Alnaim said...

    Jawad, a lot of this applies to you too, we've been doing the exact same thing every day of the week (and weekend) for the past year (and the year before it we did the same things for a year, too). I'm not complaining, but i'm shocked I predicted this would happen and yet did nothing about it. When I meet someone I haven't met for a year or two I can tell him/her what happened in my life since then in about 7 minutes! What's freaking me out isn't what happened in the past two years, but the realization that, more or less, this is how things will be for the next 40!

     
  • At 2:32 PM , Hamad Mohawis said...

    smoke some crack

     
  • At 2:35 PM , hosam said...

    You know an "interesting life" is usually invoked as a curse in certain cultures.

     
  • At 1:45 PM , Abdulaziz Alnaim said...

    I'm considering many alternative "life styles" =)

    1)Outlaw/Leader of Gang -- I'm a terrible liar and I'm not much of a criminal master mind and I don't really look like a Gang member so leading one is probably out of the question.

    2)Snob -- I'm cheap

    3)Intellectual/Thinker -- I do drive a Volvo, but that's my only qualification

    4)Gay -- I don't know how to dress and I wouldn't qualify as fit.

    Any other suggestions?

     
  • At 7:40 PM , Hosam said...

    Wow so those are the only two things keeping you from being gay, huh.

     
  • At 10:02 AM , Abdulaziz Alnaim said...

    looooooooooooool. Well, I'm not enjoying many of the benefits of being a single straight-guy anyway :p

     

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