At the age of 34, I am writing my first blog. Thanks for giving it some of your time. Although I thought of starting my blog few years ago, I haven’t typed down a single word under so many pretexts. So why now?
Coping with change might come easier with further changes, I suppose. They (the new ones) might give further meaning to the original change, I hope! I moved last week form Beirut to Montreal; a step that I have been avoiding for a long time. This was my second biggest move in my life after leaving Aleppo (my home town) traveling to Brighton in 2013 pursuing my Masters.
But this time, I had a new revelation! I found that moving in time and space is the easiest thing in the whole journey. The hardest part actually, is the travel across the different ego levels; from a boosted ego (that I used to enjoy in Beirut) to almost a zero-level one (that I am experiencing now in Montreal).
I think I can claim that I am aware of the trap of this ego shift, and I need to talk about it maybe more later. Nevertheless, this awareness doesn’t make the challenge that it imposes on me in my adaptation phase any easier.
I still have to deal with few serious questions like: WHO I AM HERE, NOW? and WHO I WANT to BE, SOON?
Thus, I decided to start blogging! As you might tell, this is one added change I created to deal with the original – the geographical – one, not as a distractor, but as a stabiliser, as I hope.
I like to see this space as a new tool to face myself with new questions, to challenge it to find some answers, and to park all emerging thoughts and inspirations in one interactive space. Hence, thanks a lot for enriching my journey with your interaction.
From -35c Montreal
Elias
No-Land's Man Blog 
By this “coping with the change” attempt, and by sharing this out loud, you will face yourself with new questions and new challanges. But also, this might be the trigger for a desired change for others.
Never been an easy thing of course … but i believe the outcome of this new space might be a something unexpectedly beautiful.
Looking forward!
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Hopefully 🤘🏼yalla waiting to read your story
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Couldn’t have said it better.
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اول شي قريت كلشي كاتبه وطبعا فهمته كله بس ما بتتخيل شقد انبسطت عقدرتك عالتعبير .. صح انو انا من زمان بحسدك عقدرتك عالتعبير .. اوقات كتير بكون بدي احكي شي واعبر عنه وما بعرف .. بس اقرا شي انت كاتبه بقول يا الله طلعت بسيطة القصة بس انا ما بعرف اكتب متلك ولا بعرف اعبر بطريقة سليمة متلك .. مافي شي جديد .. بس ما كنت بعرف انو انت شاطر بالتعبير حتى بال english..
بقدر افهم كل كلمة كتبتها بس في شوي شغلات بسيطة بختلف معك فيها .. كونك بتعرف المشكلة هاد بحد ذاته بخلي ال challenges اسهل
In my opinion, awareness does make the adaptation easier.
Who are you and who you want to be soon ? I bet you only need to be who you are.
الياس صدقني … ناجح وين ما حطيته .. شاطر .. محبوب والكل بيفتخر فيه
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I am not worried about you at all.
Tari ♥️
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اول شي ابوس ربك
Yes exactly maybe that is what i was trying to say, easier but not easy
And abous rabbak again and again
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Great first post! Will definitely be waiting for more content 😉
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Will definitely be waiting for your comments ✌🏼😎
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Wow! Well said!
You know what Allous! You made me think of all the barriers, within ourselves, that we have built against the openness and the acceptance of any change, simply because we had a dream.. or an idea about what our lives were going to be .. and we cannot cope with the simple fact that it is not what we hoped for, and that fact that we hardly have any control over it.
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Habibi! I see what you mean. Our dreams might hinder our adaptation with changing and challenging life! But what has the highest value? Coping or dreaming?
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I gotta give it a spin or two of thinking! Or “of feeling”!
My first reaction was : Coping.
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