Life in every single individual has its ups and downs. There is no way a human being would come to this world and leave it without having any type of hardship no matter how big or small it is. If hardship is inevitable, then how come some people seem like they have never encountered it…
Valid Emotions
To live means to feel. All creatures have emotions, whether they be able to express it or not. Emotion is an experience that can be a reaction to an action or a reason for an action. Sometimes emotions can be felt through heart and sometimes it can be felt with the mind. Whether it be…
قصيدة لربي
لا هدف إلّا إليك سعيت و سعيت و فديت شقت لألقى بك لكن خفت على من وصلت اتصلت و صعبت علي قطع الحبال فما من حبل يقطع إلّا الحبل إليك سألتك متى الأوان فلم تجبني ولسؤالي لهيت ذكرك في قلبي قد هدّأني فنسيت دنياي و من هي خلوت بنفسي ما بين الجموع فما هم و…
Social Media Evolution and Oversharing
Social media has become the means of communication since the late 90’s till now. It created its own culture where there are certain ways and unwritten rules as to how people should do things the way they do online. This type of culture created dissonance between the virutal and normal life behaviour. My whole journey…
My Syria سوريّتي Ma Syrie
سوريّتي الحبيبة, أنا لم أنساكي فما زلتي في قلبي تدفقين في كلٌ شراييني. كل حينٍ والآخر أحسب نفسي فيكي, لكن الواقع يأتي ليلطم وجهي بصفعةً قوية قائلاً: لا تحلمي!! أصبحتي كالحلم يا سوريّتي, فلم أعد أراكي إلّا في الأحلام اليقظة أو أحلام النوم. و إن كنت حلماً بالفعل, فما أحلى الأحلام. لا أريد أي إنسان…
What is Good?
What is good? According to google dictionary, there are multiple definitions for this word depending on its proposition in a sentence. Generally, most of the definitions describe good as something wanted, righteous, or even a pleasant feeling. However, my question here is. What determines if something is good or not? Is it a common sense…
Cognitive Dissonance
Mind and body should work cooperatively. If there is disagreement between those two, the owner will fall in a state of delusion. In psychology, when the behavior doesn’t match the character there is a term that defines it as cognitive dissonance. Cognitive: the root word is cognition which is originally comes from “cognitio” in Latin…
Empty Thoughts
To feel empty is an end route that has multiple beginnings. Being there and not being here. Does anything matter? Those feelings that we feel like happiness, sadness, anger, fear, rage, revenge, satisfaction, depression. Where do all these lead us? Events after events after events until we die. Then what? What’s the point? We talk…
Platonic Life
When God created Adam from clay and molded it into a specific shape, and after the clay solidified it was empty on the inside. Afterward, when God blew a soul inside the body of Adam, the body itself came to life. Humans live their lives stuck in their bodies. Some never pay attention or pretend…
Salma Daboul | Philosophy سلمى دعبول 