Farah Osman

Ceasefire NOW #savegaza #freepalestine

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Rania @umyaznemo]

No clue who this gentleman is, but he's a legend!

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Do not stop speaking out about the genocide. It still continues night & day. Even if the feed is not showing you the corpses, they still exist. Seek out news if you must & be the voice sharing what is happening. We must keep Gaza at the top of the feed until Palestine is free!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A Palestinian doctor who seems to have been raped and killed in Israeli custody.

Don’t look away.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

This Zionist in Chicago is unhinged.

Internet, do your thing.

[Rahma @Rahmazeinegypt]

It’s ridiculous.
Israel lies, they know they’re lying, you know they’re lying, media knows they’re lying, institutions with facts before them know they’re lying, politicians know they’re lying and yet their ridiculous justifications that are based on these lies are still being entertained…what a joke

[Timothy E Kaldas @tekaldas]

This short thread offers a brief glimpse into the extraordinary trauma that will define the futures of hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza, those who survive that is

Read every word to begin to understand what’s happening. These war crimes against children must be stopped

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

Biden is a war criminal.

Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Every single leader in the West that aids and abets them is a war criminal.

We shouldn’t be electing these people, we should be jailing them.

[Farah Osman @FroosterO]

@JoeBiden @BarackObama MURDERER.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

136 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed in 75 days – something we have never seen in @UN history.

Most of our staff have been forced from their homes.

I pay tribute to them & the thousands of aid workers risking their lives as they support civilians in Gaza.

[Radio Watermelon @RadioWatermelon]

Raise your 🖐 if you agree Israel is a terrorist organization.

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

يُعجبكم موتنا وتتفاخرون بكثرة شهدائنا
يُعجبكم قهرنا وقلة حيلتنا وصمودنا
وتكرهون ضعفنا وإعترافنا بأننا بشر
حتى انك يا عزيزي لم تتكبد عناء مقاطعة منتجات القتلة الا بعد ان قتل منا ما يزيد عن العشرين ألفا
ألم اقل لكم اننا لسنا محتوى لعين لتشاهدوه ؟
بل قضية نحاول لوحدنا ان لا نمحى عن الوجود
وانتم تنظرون وتنَظرون.

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

Israel have lost the sympathy of the international community. They will never get it back now. The world has seen too much.

Gradually, Int’l pressure will continue to increase, as more and more people reject Israel and its toxic ideology.

More likely, this Israeli regime will collapse from within.

#Nuremberg2

[ghufran @ghufranky]

boycotting aside. i wonder how arabs living in the west feel about their tax money being spent on the palestinian genocide with no say or choice in the matter. like do they think about it before they go to bed? when they get their paycheck? does it feel heavy?

[Farah Osman @FroosterO]

@POTUS MURDERER

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

Don’t you think @elonmusk that the first thing that should happen is to end the 56 years of occupation and the apartheid practiced by Israel against the Palestinians?
I suggest you should also visit #Gaza and the West Bank to see what stripping people of their humanity looks like

[Farah Osman @FroosterO]

I despise @piersmorgan

[Farah Osman @FroosterO]

But let’s give free rein to Israel “to continue down the path of terror, violence, and killing”. Hypocrite.
Murderer.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace.

To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek.

We can’t do that.

[Farah Osman @FroosterO]

@POTUS MURDERER.