Today I am 50! I remember a time when I thought 30 is quite old , 40 is really really old and 50 is one step away from death . Today I am 50. I knew it was coming . It was so far and yet approaching so slow . It creeps on you bit by bit. And you wake up and you are 50. At the age of 20 you feel you are already tired , exhausted. You can’t imagine going on 30 more years like that. And yet , you do. You are there . You wake up and you are 50. Maybe there is one thing you wish you didn’t leave behind. Youth. Ohhhhh Youth! What a wasted potential on people who still have it . You see? I am already sounding as grumpy man who just turned 50! You want to hold on whatever remains of youth you have . You want to look younger , feel younger , be younger. The fake humility you pretend to show whenever someone tells you “oh but you look great for 50” . Rule of thumb: if people start telling you : “you look good for your age.”
Buddy , you have aged .
Imagine someone tells you :” you look great for 20.” You will punch them in face. Today I am 50. A day that I might have dreaded seeing wrinkles and furrows on my face and people close to you trying to convince you to do “something” for the wrinkles and the grey hair . And they utter the magical words : “so you can look, you know , YOUNGER” . Yes here it is. YOUNGER. Our Kryptonite, our Achilles heel, our Holy Grail , our pain our desires our needs our insecurities our life potion our happiness and our grief … all at once . YOUNGER. Well I am not . I am 50. And I am now more familiar, more friendlier and even more in tune with these wrinkles and cracks and white hair all at once . I have spent more time with them than anybody else. Time has traced all my life in these . Why would I erase that ? Why would i erase …me? For the last five years I planned for my 50th birthday “photoshoot’ Where I would look so good with lights and professional photography so I would hear the praise of not looking my age. But for what? It’s me and I am 50. So here is a simple selfie. No filter no photoshoot no stupid ego trip. Today I am 50. I am alive , I am here and I am very grateful.
We have reached a point where the prime minister of Malaysia @anwaribrahim now speaks for the majority of the world’s people and not a European or Western leader.
Anyone who’s worked as a journalist in Palestine knows Hisham. He’s an essential source of news & info, and is behind a lot of the videos you see of Israeli violations in the WB. Hisham is being targeted for the critical role he plays in showing Israel’s crimes to the world.
Dr. Mustafa a survivor of four Israeli airstrikes, he used to still believe that something might change, but eventually before his tragic death he filmed his last video saying to the whole world, “We have been defeated in front of the children. We are dying of hunger while the world’s trash bins are overflowing with food. There is no justice except in heaven.” unfortunately Dr.Mustafa was killed in a fifth airstrike that targeted him, ending up his life, career and hope of better future for the people of Gaza on the 7th of February.
For those who are wondering India is the Country where an 8 year old Muslim girl was gang raped by a group of Hindu Men.
And Later HINDUS TOOK OUT RALLY IN SUPPORT OF THE RAPISTS.
Let the world know that Pakistani journalist Imran Riaz Khan @ImranRiazKhan has been illegally arrested once again.
Mr. Khan suffered enforced disappearance & custodial torture for many months, at the hands of the illegitimate, authoritarian, fascist regime.
Imran Riaz Khan is one of the journalists who has been consistently vocal against the regime’s atrocities & unlawful, unconstitutional activities.
Recently, Mr. Khan was using his voice against the unprecedented, brazen electoral fraud, which stole the two-thirds majority mandate of Imran Khan’s PTI.
Never before have we witnessed such blatant fascism, with muzzling of mainstream media, abduction & torture of journalists, threats to their families, internet shutdowns, ban on SM websites, enforced disappearances of SM activists & assassination of a world class investigative journalist Arshad Sharif.
This is #PakistanUnderFascism.
@pressfreedom@FreedomofPress@RSF_inter@IFJGlobal@ICFJ
#ReleaseImranRiazKhan