My university in Lebanon has started and a lot of work has been going on, however I have not been around for the mere fact that I’m fixing some of my papers in Egypt. During this period of time there was the Fetr Feast vacation for 4-5 days. I knew that I’d be here in Egypt around this time in fact I pre-planned to spend my vacation in Sinai in Nuweiba a month earlier.

Why Nuweiba? Well it is the type of place you go when you decide to take a vacation from your own life. Well it’s not that I hate my life, I really love my life but what I mean is that it is the type of place you go when you decide to throw away everything you meet or think of during your normal day … your thoughts … your actions … your distractions … point thinking zero … Trance state on. I went there with my best friend and no other, we didn’t want to go there with a lot of friends for the fact that we wanted to make it a spiritual journey.

Nuweiba will always remain the same … It is all beauty and silence … we knew that there would be no one there although it was a Feast … It is not a commercial place … A lot of people don’t go there for the reason that it is lacking a lot of fun facilities … Luxury doesn’t exist … You don’t find a lot of hotels … It is a camping area … Lack of activity … Almost no pollution …Tremendous nature… That’s what makes the place so unique for me.

So what is it like when there’s no one there to interrupt or annoy you in this beautiful land of freedom. It is simply like when you watch the stars to an extent where you become another star out there … you become another ray of light … You become the endless blue sky … You become another tide in the sea …You become another hill next to the beautiful mountains … you become another tiny granule of sand … etc … Ego dissolves to an extent where you become all alive and one with the beautiful Nature …

After experiencing all this beauty for 4-5 days I come back to the city … You don’t wake up to the sounds of the tides or see the reflections of the pure lights on the sea … You can’t really find a star to talk to … I don’t really feel bad … I remain a watcher … Watching the storm … Trying to grasp the middle of the tornado … I come back to my people … I hear them talking about stuff like money and power … fighting etc… I felt like I have left planet earth with all its problems for a thousand years and came back all of a sudden. As I said I don’t really feel bad but I can feel some type of regret … regretting the time wasted for not being there … for being more and more alive.

All I can say is that Sinai has become a state of mind … If you are interested in checking pictures from my journey go here --> [link]

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"Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice." - Osho