"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
-Neil Armstrong
Saudi Arabia like a lot of countries in the world…send some students abroad…And Saudi students like a lot of students in the world…tend to enjoy the student life…mingling with other nationalities…no responsabilities…. Hanging out at the local campus café…having road trips on spring break…enjoying a lot of first time experiences…grouping with friends that we know we will be with forever…or will we?
What does bring us together at the end of the day…being in the same environment???!!!…starting a new life???!!! The sudden feel of independence??!!..Sharing the same apartment???!!…going to the same classes???!…having the same mental connection???!!!…laughing at each other's jokes ???!!!!...having each other's back???…experiencing the same things????…being together in intense moments???!!
Whatever it is….The connection is strong and powerful it could even last through our post grad…but what happens when we are back home???!!!!...back to our families…our culture…the friends that we left behind…the things we used to do…or the things we used to believe…
Sure!.... we tend to try to keep in touch…plan trips…if we live in the same town we have a sort of a weekly meeting up…send each other emails…give each other a surprise call from time to time…but the gap grows wider and wider with time..we will try to adapt…will try to fit in…slowly breaking old strings and building new ones…
Till the day the friend that you promised that you would be forever…that you just click with…decides to get married the "traditional way"…
It wouldn't be as dramatic as it sounds…if the partner was not as plain…not as witty….not as open to the world…as he is…but your friend doesn't seem to mind…on the contrary he sinks in…deeper and deeper…he feels like a foreigner…an intruder…he doesn't want to be different…. Doesn't want to be the prodigee…
He changes slowly…severely…the sense of humour is vanished…the repartee is gone…he became darkly old fashioned…even more than your average person that hasn't left the country…he starts using more cultural slang words…he reflects more and more on the traditional thoughts in his being…he denies his other self…
Till one day he has blocked you from his messenger…deleted you from his friend's list…changed his numbers…without a word…without a reason…without a goodbye...
