100 Things I Appreciate About Life !!!

    A week ago i was challenged by a friend to write a list of  100 things i appreciate about life in a deadline of 48 hours. When he first told me that i thought "well, i have a couple of things in my mind but i will never be able to make it to the 100th thing". So, i just went to sleep deciding to start working on it in the morning and in the morning i put down my lap top infront of me, opened a blank word document and started writing and before i knew it and before an hour has passed i was done and yet i could write more if i wanted to. I was so happy i did it and i was even happier to realize how many things i  should be grateful for; it made me feel how much i am blessed.

    After showing it to my friend he suggested that i share it on my blog but i refused claiming it was too personal and some what ridiculous to share in public but, today i don't know why i suddenly decided to share it with people in hope that maybe it would inspire someone. So, here you go, a list of 100 things i appreciate about my life without any editing : ENJOY !!

    Note: Its not ordered according to importance, its written in the same chaotic order it hit my mind with.

1. Being a Muslim
2. Being an Egyptian
3. Having such a loving family
4. Having a big number of friends who consider me close
5. Having the car i always wanted
6. Having the talent of writing
7. Being an Engineer
8. Doing my MBA

9. Knowing how to read and write

10. Having two homes I can stay in any of them any time

11. Traveling to Turkey last year (Fel safar saba3 fawayed fe3lan)

12. Being loved once by the most attractive Taurus guy i've ever met

13. Being a synchronized swimmer for 3 years

14. People constantly telling me that I am attractive

15. Having my own room with my own laptop, AC and Satellite Dish

16. Having a BB that connects me to a hell number of my friends (Actually it re-connected me to a number of old friends)

17. Spending some of the best days of my life at college and knowing some of the best people

18. Being able to do some extracurricular activities while I was at college

19. Being Head of Marketing at Youth Committee of Shooting Club right now specially with the team I have

20. Having a cousin who always guided me in my life

21. Having a good shaped figure

22. Being able to take the decision of getting veiled at the age of 26

23. Taking tajweed lessons

24. Knowing how to swim perfectly 

25. People considering me fashionable

26. Being able to re-connect with old friends during and after the revolts

27. Witnessing and actually being part of the Egyptian revolts

28. Being Ahalweya

29. Being a Nasserist

30. Having the cutest cat ever

31. Being able to see the beauty of the world God created when others cant

32. Having one hell of a shoe collection as I love shoes so much

33. Spending two of the best months in my life with someone i really care about and cherish alot 

34. Being able to listen to and appreciate music

35. Having a wide collection of stamps

36. Being able to buy books and not borrow them

37. Being able to find food to eat daily

38. Being one of the top students back at school

39. Being part of the school chorus each annual school party

40. Knowing four languages

41. Watching all HP movies in theaters

42. Owning LOTR trilogy books and DVDs

43. Having a club membership that enables me to practice any kind of sports any time

44. Being able to live lavishly and exquisitely as any leo should

45. Being a tom boy sometimes

46. Being loved by a Romanian guy at some point in my life

47. Being able to maintain relationships with most of my exes after the break up

48. People keep coming back to me for advices even those who are just acquaintances

49. People not affording not to be my friends so they always come back after staying away for a while and knowing my true value as a friend

50. The way my bro tries to make it up for me when he feels he’s done me wrong

51. My ability to make people feel guilty

52. Being white coloured with hazel nut eyes (no offense to anyone who is not white i just like the fact that i am)

53. My parents forcing me to wear braces when I was a young kid

54. Being the link between all my cousins

55. Having leadership skills

56. Being able to eat the sugary stuff I love the most without having to worry about diabetes

57. Knowing how to ride bicycles

58. Having what can be considered a good amount of knowledge so that when I sit with people I am able to engage in conversations

59. Turning 28 next week isA

60. Being able to walk and run

61. Having friends who look up to me  

62. Being respected by anyone I know

63. Being able to afford buying medicine when I am sick

64. Being able to wear brand names

65. Being able to help the needy

66. One Ramadan with a help of one friend we single handedly prepared three waves of shonat Ramadan, eftar sa2em once, keswet 3eed and I finished reciting  the Quran 3 times

67. My family can afford traveling to alex the city I love the most

68. Having a soft bed with medical pillows to sleep on

69. Learning how to drive early enough and being a good driver

70. When I had problems at work I could resign without having to worry about expenses

71. Being a woman specially when it comes to the part where guys pamper us

72. Spending 7 years with my grandmum as a child

73. My mum sewing me winter clothes when I was at school

74. Going to all Disney shows on ice that were held in Egypt

75. Going to the book fair annually

76. Always having a shoulder to cry on in hard times

77. Walking in the rain

78. Going to the opera

79. Wearing coats, scarves and gloves in winter. I love winter clothes

80. Cruising the streets of Cairo when im down

81. Taking falouka down The Nile bank on a breezy summer night

82. Eating ice cream in winter

83. Visiting old Cairo and drinking 3enab fel fishawy

84. Watching Cairokee performing live

85. Crying without ever thinking this is weakness

86. Befriending you now after all those years ( I meant my friend who challenged me to do this)

87. Owning the whole collection of Shakespeare's works written in old English

88. Having Alexandrian origin raining through my veins

89. Appearing on several TV shows

90. My name appearing in a news paper after the success of the carnival we held at the club

91. Being raised in a cinematographic family

92. Being one of the youth the whole world was talking about cleaning Tahrir Square

93. Surviving 2 major car accidents

94. Never going under the scalpel

95. I never drink any caffeinated drink

96. Used to drink a full cup of buffalo milk every day morning till high school

97. Being daddy’s spoiled gurl

98. Knowing I have good karma

99. Have a warm bed in winter while others don’t

100. Completing this list

     Finally, special dedication to my friends and family whom some of which were mentioned explicitly in this post (You know yourselves) and even those who were not mentioned i dedicate that to you all as a Thank You for being part of my life which shaped me to become the person i am now. Special thanks go to Shady Sadat, the one who talked me into doing this. Thank You big time.

    Moral of the story?? when you are down thinking that life has taken so much away from you better think of the things it has actually given you; i bet you'll feel much better :)

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