Sunday, June 22, 2008

Spartacus

He started from slavery and ended at defeat. He couldn’t achieve anything for himself or even for his followers. After his defeat and death, his own body was not even found and most of his men were crucified along the “Via Appia”, and that was a very clear warning to any slave who may follow his ideas. Although, at first, he had won two battles, the failure was the final result. By any measure, he had failed and lost everything.
Most probably, Spartacus had lived a very hard life; He entered this life and left it without changing anything, His life was harder than even the slaves he was fighting to make them free. At some time he thought, at least while thinking alone, it would have been better if he had accepted his life as it had been, and that would have been safer for him and for his men. At the end of his life while he was defending himself and surrounded by foes, he might have regretted all his actions but he had no choice rather than continuing what he had started to and go to the miserable failure.
There is only one remaining thing in his story, although he had been defeated, his name is more famous than “Crassus”, the winner of the battle. His idea was strong enough to defeat time and to gain respect after centuries. His failure is respected more than the success of his foes. Success is not what we gain now, but our trials of doing what we believe in. If your trials ended with failure, smile, at least you had tried just like the famous hero Spartacus.



Mohamed Al-Khazendar

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Nü Shu

The idea is very interesting; a language which no man could read, write or understand. Did you hear before about Nü Shu? It’s not a fiction but an old Chinese language. Regardless of the historical reasons, this language was exclusively used by women, and that’s the interesting point. They didn’t permit men to learn it, and no woman mentioned anything about its secrets even to her sons.

A while ago, I believed that all women are the same, but later, I got convinced that they are so different. The idea of Nü Shu was a good answer to this point. Although they are different they had a common language which only women could speak and understand. A language which has no dictionary and no man has the authority to learn, while every woman could easily understand it.

Dear men, whoever feels that he understood a woman, take care. Words don’t have the same meaning between us, and something is lost in translation. The given statistics about Nü Shu tell us that there is a very small number of women who could speak Nü Shu, but who believes that? I think all women are fluent in Nü Shu.

P.S. I am not with or against women, I am just trying to analyze.


Mohamed Al-Khazendar

My First Post


As they always add a first post that introduces the blog, this is mine.


Mohamed Al-Khazendar