The Symphony

This is my first blog post...I preferred it to be  about our great -Egyptian- revolution of #25jan

Actually I have previously published this as an article at magnology magazine, but I just love it that it should be the start of my blog work :)

I hope you like it...

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An old white-haired man … a young man with tight jeans walking with his friends... a small girl riding the shoulders of her father… a man in black with his hair tied and holding a guitar… a bunch of girls wearing fashionable designs… a man with a beard wearing Pants under his short gallabiya.

Of course I can’t gather all the picture elements in some few words but this is nearly what I saw at El-Tahrir square through the revolution days.
Actually, what I saw through these days was more to be like a dream… a wonderful dream… Not only me, but the whole world stood still watching the greatness of the revolution and the will of the Egyptian people changing the history of a nation in such a peaceful way that no one could believe.
For me, it was a little different from what I got used to with my people, the Egyptian people, I used to watch people fighting and insulting each other at the crowd transportation, but that wasn’t what I saw at El-Tahrir.
I saw more than two million people in one place that you can take five minutes to move twenty meters, However, you don’t hear bad words… you don’t find anyone fighting… you don’t find a boy annoying…just annoying a girl with one word…I heard the laughs coming out form  hearts that finally found their home… I saw the civilized discussions between people who are really trying to understand each other… I saw the Christians protecting the Muslims as they pray…I saw a couple that decided to make their wedding at the square because they found the place as their home and the people as their brothers and sisters.

These scenes make me think that it’ more like a harmony… a smooth harmony that liberates your mind, takes you behind the limits of any negative thought and brings out one major thought…Freedom.

And that’s one of the reasons why people refused to go home after some concessions by the regime, because they finally felt the freedom and they wouldn’t accept less than freedom as a destiny.

So, we are talking about an integrated piece of music… an elegant symphony, but with an extra advantage… the orchestra leader is not there.

But that made the symphony more and more beautiful…that made everyone at El-Tahrir square feel like he is responsible for this revolution…that it’s more important than anything else…that made everyone feel like there is some kind of a bond between him and everyone there… made them feel like they have the same destiny, the destiny that will be chosen by them.

“People demand removal of the regime”, this was what the Egyptians were calling at El-Tahrir through the 18 days of revolution…after these 18 days and by the announcement of the ex-president stepping down, the main call was “People demand evacuation (إخلاء) of the Square”…this was a point of disagreement between the people there…but what they all agreed on, what the whole Egyptian people agreed on is “People demand ethics (أخلاق) of the square”.

What we need to do now is to spread the manners and ethics of El-Tahrir square all over Egypt… we need to feel responsible for it… to reconstruct it. As they say destruction is so easier than reconstruction, the people successfully destructed the corrupted regime; they cut the head of the snake… Now, it’s time to build our country again.