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| Artwork by Tarek Chemaly based on the logo of the series Life Goes On |
We as Lebanese have had very tough lessons - please do not say the R word (resilience). It's more like stubbornness and stupidity. But here we are, I ordered a new blazer online - and, superstition I know, my late mother told me not to wear something for the first time on a funeral, so I wore something else for our neighbor's funeral and saved the new blazer for Easter. Also the plumber just came and fixed and changed what needed to be fixing and changing.
Why am I saying this?
Because we are in a country at war. A country with a winter that stretched long enough. In a country where news follows you even if you avoid it. In a country where little or nothing makes sense. Still, a new blazer, fixing plumbing things, going to see my ophthalmologist, doing blood tests, my glasses broke so I need a new pair, and so on and so forth, as if everything is "normal" when everything is not. But sure enough, like any entrepreneur will tell you over on Linkedin (heaven help us), there are no ideal circumstances, there is no perfect time, there is no stars aligning, you jump in and hope for the best.
That Ralph Lauren blazer - which mind you was so cool it impressed my young niece in the US when I sent her the Easter photos - was not going to wait forever especially that my size is, well, difficult (short, skinny with weird length of the arms). The clogged washbasin was not going to unclog itself. The cover of the WC which decided to crack was not fixing itself.
And so here we are, now it is raining again (insert Supertramp song here). And I am coordinating the rest of the weekly appointments. Life, you know has a tendency to go on.
Either you are on board, or you are in the way.