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The 99 Balloons
By Ziad Aazam / Monday, 11th February 2013 / Flow, Prose, Word, Writing Space / Leave a comment /

(http://spacewriting.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/image.jpg) The 99 Balloons By Ziad Aazam These are 99 Balloons. Full of hot air. Very uplifting. Of course, I know what full of hot air means. Thats how my 99 Balloons are uplifting. Just let go, you may learn something up there. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. To fill your mind with beautiful thoughts, get rid of the toxic ones. To enjoy delicious food, have an empty stomach. To delight in making new friends, forget your old enemies. To fill up your cup, empty it first. To keep new clothes in the closet, store away old ones. To be filled with dreams, forget reality. To have a clear vision, rise above trivialities. To have true hope, wait till you are extremely desperate. To appreciate what friends are for, stay away from them.
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10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.

To solve a problem, forget resolution. To understand life, examine death. To fight all corruption, admit you are guilty. To survive all relationships, break away a thousand times. To know where you are, look out the window. To learn, forget school and textbooks. To know, seek ignorance and search for light in the darkness. To breathe fresh air, stay away from the city. To forget death momentarily, bring fresh bread to your family. To be free, lock yourself in desire-less self. To be wise, forget thoughts and start breathing for you shall inhale and exhale goodness. To lead a worthy mechanical life, embrace imaginative poetry. To lead a worthy imaginative life, embrace judgmental philosophy. To be a great thinker, do. To be a great doer, think. To live a rich life, forget money. To write, start reading. To read, look for your own words written by another author. To be an animal, forget God. To upset me, tell me you are not human with your words and deeds. To rise above, be humble. To sink below and break easily, inflate your fragile ego. To conquer the world, overcome yourself. To lead, be yourself for good or bad. To enjoy nature, let it embrace you. To drive a car, think like a machine. To watch TV, pretend you are watching Cartoons. To stay a child, always remember Tom and Jerry. To watch your diet, eat. To be able to relax, go through a major stressful event. To understand capitalism, practice inhumanity. To have a healthy non-materialistic life, buy a Lexus and a Louis Vuitton. You are cured once they depreciate. To stay healthy, stay away from medical doctors. To live in a city, lower your expectations. To belong, pretend. To know the Future, be a politician and project the past. To know the Past, be an archeologist and disappear underground. To know the Present, be an anthropologist and walk everywhere. To understand history, forget what winners wrote and hire a Time Machine to see for yourself. To be a dictator, act stupid. To be an intellectual, learn from taxi drivers. To live happily ever after with your spouse, dont attempt to define happiness. To be effective on Twitter, write more than 140 characters. To be effective on Facebook, create a Faceface page and start a Caf + Culture Social Network. To connect, start with yourself. To have a real social network, stop Clicking and start living.
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56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84.

85. 86. 87. 88. 89.

To succeed in all aspects of life, fake it. To succeed in what you truly believe in, be sincere. To have a civilized dialogue with the West, discuss with them their own history first. To have confidence in what you know, dont be intimidated by individuals with PhD degrees. I know better, I have one. To communicate better to Arabs, use the English language. To forget you are an Arab, write and speak in English or French at all times. To speak and write in two languages, be prepared to walk a fine line between high culture and Schizophrenia. To bluff or not to bluff, that is the businesspersons question. To win a war, be ready to die. To tell a story, be a professional liar. To act, become a fictional character in your story. To know the Truth, read the Quran and Hadith with an open mind to all that around you, including the Devil. To have faith in God, liberate yourself from other faiths in all other Things. To succeed, fail. To appreciate beauty, bury yourself in a hole for few days. To appreciate what your legs can do for you, travel around the world with a backpack, alone. To be able to complete reading this 99 list of advices, use math to realize that just 27 advices remain. That should keep you going. Dont apply this method on your age. To be an elite, believe that everything you think and act is rightfully privileged superiority. To earn your rightful place at the middle, strive to make a balance between those at both extremes. To maintain your place at the frontier, fluctuate between front and back without staying for long in either. To balance yourself between top and bottom, learn how to jump up and down without breaking your legs or chopping your head. To have good ideas, learn how to nest, to multiply, to connect, to relate, to deconstruct, to construct, to disjoint, to synthesize, and above all, to hit the trash bin. To win over a power hungry freak, use the tip of a pin as your weapon. To face a bull, yield; to face a cow, milk. To win someones heart, submit yours first. To use a word, make sure you know where it has been. To claim knowledge, know your words intimately; i.e. love your Words. I cant be more explicit than this. To seek thoughts, run away from them; pretend you think of something else. To keep your Mind, Soul, Spirit, Body, Bank Account and Heart in balance, simply struggle like a human being; like brave men and women in battlefield. There is no better advice than this one. To know how ignorant you are, speak to the generations older and younger than you. To forget your misery, write 99 advices. To live, perceive and conceive in a healthy place, find an island and start up a country. To have something useful to say, make sure it has been said before. Humans are recycled socio-cultural beings. To momentarily liberate yourself from the false call for freedom, read 1984 and watch Superman. Freedom is a hoax.
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90. 91. 92. 93. 94.

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96. 97. 98. 99. 100.

Advices are all the same; except this advice; it doesnt start with To. To plan for disasters, submit to planners and strategists. To make a sound decision, check your hearing first. To live a life in peace, die. To live a vibrant life, think rationally like a machine with a hint of intuition and poetic imagination; and act irrationally like a human with a hint of mechanical and philosophical judgment. To be a loved perfect practitioner, apply 1% of what you learned in Academia; to be a loved perfect academic, apply 1% of what you learned in Practice. To love what you do, follow the 99% application in both, even if both sides hate you. , use silence. To be human, have a Beautiful Mind. To confuse yourself, listen to someone elses 99 advices. To confuse others, write your own 99 advices. To write 99 advices, dont write the 100th advice.

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