"YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP."

 "YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP"

FRAGMENT 6

 FRAGMENT 6

EVERYONE IS FOCUSSED ON THE NEXT THING

YOU ARE FREE TO DO THE SAME THING

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"NOBLY AND OBEDIENT TO YOUR OWN DAIMAN ( TO THE GOD THAT IS

WITHIN YOU".)                        Marcus Aurelius

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REVERE TO HOLD AND REGARD IN DEEP RESPECT.          Aurelius

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"CONVERT EVERY HINDERANCE TO AN AID."                      Aurelius

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"IMPROVE YOUR DISPOSITION." "IMPROVE ACTION."        Aurelius

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"POWWER IS INNATE-DEEPLY ROOTED-HUMAN ABILITY

THAT'S POWER. NOT MONEY, NOT STATUS, NOT REWARDS.

INNATE DEEPLY ROOTED ABILITY.

IF YOU ARE HUMAN YOU POSSESS POWER.

IF YOU ARE HUMAN YOU HAVE ABILITY

A LOT OF ABILITY...YOU HEAR?

STOP PUTTING YOURSELF DOWN.

ABILITY IS NOT WHAT OTHERS GRANT YOU

ABILITY YOU DO HAVE BECAUSE YOU ARE HUMAN.

AND IF YOU ARE NOT, OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE NO ABILITY."   

  SO THE QUESTION IS ARE YOU HUMAN OR NOT? "   ???

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"IT'S IN DOING WHAT MAN'S NATURE REQUIRES."               Aurelius

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'CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN WHERE YOU ARE NOW AND WHERE HAPPINESS LIES.

MAKE LIFE CHANGES THAT CREATES REAL ENVIORMENT OF HAPPINESS FOR

 YOURSELF.

AM I SEEKING HAPPINESS FROM EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES?

AND SEEKING ATTENTION FROM OTHERS."

IN MY CASE DOING BOTH...

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A LOW LIFE, LOWER THAN MANY SHOWING OFF THAT SHE IS SOMEBODY IMPORTANT

WHILE SHE IS ONLY SELF ABSORBED AND SELF LOVING, SELFISH, RUDE, UNCOUTH,

UNSOPHISTICATED CONSIDERING HERSELF AN INTELLECTUAL ALWAYS GIVING

 LECTURES OF PSEUDO INTELLIGENCE AND WISDOM...WISDOM? THAT'S QUESTIONABLE

SO IS INTELLECT. OH! PEASE SHUT UP, SHUT UP. I CAME TO THIS CAFE TO READ MY

 BOOK, SHUT UP AND LET OTHERS CONCENTRATE ON WORDS OF VALUE.

GO HOME AND BE LOUD AS MUCH AS YOU WANT OR NEED TO FEEL SO IMPORTANT.

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DON'T FEEL HURT BY EXTERNAL THINGS.

HOW SHITTY CAN THEY BE!

SMELLY ROTTEN EXTERNAL THINGS CAN'T BE THE SOURCE OF YOUR SORROW.

SORROW IS A VERY PRECIOUS FEELING. YOU NEED TO GO THROUGH IT...

THAT WILL TAKE CARE OF THE HURT.

NOT THE MEANINGLESS, USELESS,UNCLEAN EXTERNAL THINGS.

YOU MUST NOT THINK SO LOW OF YOUR SELF TO BE HURT BY SARCASTIC REMARKS

 UTTERED WITH FAKE SMILES.

WITH YOUR TALENT AND YOUR EDUCATION IT WOULD BE A SHAME  AND AN INSULT

TO THE POIGNANT FEELING OF BEING HURT.

GET HURT, IF YOU HAVE TO BY A GREAT POEM WHICH REMINDS YOU OF YOUR

 TREMENDOUS LOSS AND NOT BY SOME LOUSY THING OR A NAST REMARK.

BE ABOVE ALL THAT. IT'S DROPS OF OIL SLIPPING ON WATER...

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"LIFE IS COMPOSED OF THREE THINGS.

BODY

BREATH

INTELLIGENCE.........AURELIUS

----------------------------

"CONSIDER WHAT PAIN IS..."       ??

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FRAGMENTS 5

 FRAGMENTS 5

"WHY MUST YOU DISCONTINUE WHAT YOU LOVE?"

"WHAT DO YOU LOVE?"

NO ANSWER

"YES, WHAT DO YOU LOVE?"

NO ANSWER...

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IT WILL COME

WHY ARE YOU WAITING FOR IT

IT WILL COME WHEN IT IS TIME

YES, WHY ARE YOU WAITING FOR IT?

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A: YOU DON'T KNOW?

B:  THAT'S THE PROBLEM

A:  YOU DON'T KNOW

B:  UNBELIEVABLE

A: YES, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE

B: YOU DON'T KNOW

A: NEITHER DO YOU

B; WASTE

A: WASTE OF LIFE

B: EVERYONES?

A: NO, YOUR'S

B: YOUR'S AND ONLY YOUR'S

A: YOURS AND MINE...WASTE, WASTE, TOTAL WASTE

B:  NOT MINE. YOUR'S AND ONLY YOUR'S. WASTE, WASTE, WASTE. COMPLETE WASTE.

      NOW, DEAL WITH IT...IF YOU CAN. AND YOU CAN'T. THAT I DO KNOW. THAT'S WHY

      YOUR LIFE IS A WASTE. NOW LET ME SLEEP. I AM FAMISHED WITH THIS NONSENSE.

A:  IT'S YOUR NONSENSE

B:  YOU DON'T KNOW

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AND WHAT IS THIS?

WHO KNOWS

AND WHY DO YOU ALWAYS ASK ME CONDESCENDING QUESTIONS? WHO ARE YOU?

--------------------------------------------------------------

GOOD START

BAD END

SO SIMPLISTICK

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C: YOU ARE GETTING FAT

D: YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD TODAY

C: ONLY TODAY?

D: EVERY DAY, EVERY DAY

C: SHAME ON YOU. DETERIORATING FAST EVERY YEAR.

D: YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD TODAY...

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F: WRITE A PLAY

L: REALLY?

F: YES, WRITE A PLAY

L: YOU WRITE A PLAY

F:  I AM NOT A PLAYWRIGHT

L: NEITHER AM I

F: WHAT ARE YOU THEN?

L: I DON'T KNOW

F: WHO KNOWS IF YOU DON'T?

L: YOU DO...YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. YOU TELL ME ONCE AND FOR ALL,

     WHO I AM?

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AMAZING LIFE

NOTHING TO DO

NO WHERE TO GO

I WENT TO PEE, I WENT SOMEWHERE. I HAD SOMETHING TO DO. I HAVE AN AMAZING

 LIFE UNLIKE YOU.

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UNENDING TRAUMA

THAT'S WHAT TRAUMA IS.

UNENDING

-----------------------------------

HOW TO GET OUT OF IT?

WHAT?

NEVER MIND

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"PATHOLOGICALLY DEPRESSED."

"YES, TRUST ME.

 YOU ARE

"PATHOLOGICALLY DEPRESSED"

YOU ARE...

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"GET RID OF DEPRESSION, GET RID OF TRAUMA."

 "HOW?"

  "GIVE IT TO ME."

    "DON'T YOU HAVE ENOUGH OF YOUR OWN.?"

     "OH! NO, IT'S NEVER ENOUGH. THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT TRAUMA AND   

      DEPRESSION."

--------------------------------

"MENTAL ILLNESS IS IT?"

 " YES, YES, YES. OH! YES."

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GHUP SHUP

CHIT CHAT

ONE DAY WITH THIS PERSON

NEXT DAY WITHAT PERSON...

IS THAT ALL?

THAT'S ENOUGH. ISN'T IT?

TO INDULGE IN WASTE OF TIME...

IT'S NEVER ENOUGH.

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"IT'S  BORING THE SAME, THE SAME, THE SAME

  CRY OF DESPAIR WITHOUT A SOLUTION."

"PLEASE FIND ONE

"IT'S YOUR DESPAIR, YOU FIND OUT."

 IF I COULD, DO YOU THINK I WILL EVER ASK YOU

"GO TO HELL."

  "YOU ARE NOT BEING NICE.

"NEITHER IS YOUR DESPAIR."

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LEARNED HELPLESSNESS

"APPROACH THE PROBLEM OF THE MOMENT WITH DETERMINATION, NOT DESAPAIR

U?

 "

FRAGMENT 4

FRAGMENT 4

A:   EMILY BRONTE WROTE,"WUTHERING. HEIGHTS" AND CHARLOTE. BRONTE WROTE,

      "JANE EYRE"  

B: NO, IT'S OPPOSITE. CHARLOTE WROTE, "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AND EMILT WROTE,

   "JANE EYRE."

A: YOU WANT TO BET?

B:  YES

A:HOW MUCH?

B: ONE HUNDRED...

A" YOU JUST LOST ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS...

B: NO, I DIDN'T. I GAINED HUNDRED DOLLARS.

A: YOU ARE WRONG AND YOU ALWAYS INSIST ON BEING RGHT.

 I AM RIGHT AND THAT'S WHERE YOUR PROBLEM LIES. YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BE

    RIGHT.

B: BUT I AM RIGHT AND I AM RIGHT MOST OF THE TIME AND YOU CAN'T HANDLE IT...

A: YEH...YEH...YEH. I DON'T READ SO MUCH FOR NOT KNOWING THE NAMES OF

 AUTHORS OF SUCH FAMOUS CLASSICAL BOOKS

  PICK UP A BOOK ONCE IN YOUR IGNORANT LIFE,  THROW YOUR iPHONE IN THE

   GUTTER...YOU IMBECILE.

                                                     (B begins to cry and cry, then pick up his phone)

                                                                                THE END

FRAGMENTS 3

FRAGMENTS 3

ONE ACT PLAY CALLED, "JUST A WAY OF TALKING."

BY: BINA SHRAIF (Copyright:binasharif;2025)

M: SHE IS WITH A TALL MAN

N:AND?

M: AND WHAT?

N: SHE US WITH A TALL MAN AND WHAT?

M: NOTHING ELSE...SHE IS JUST WITH A TALL MAN

N: NOT A VERY INTERSTING STORY

M: WHO SAID IT'S A STORY?

N: I THOUGH YOU WERE A STORY TELLER

M:  YOU CAN THINK OF WHATEVER YOU WANT

N: SO WHAT'S THE POINT?

M: POINT OF WHAT?

N: POINT OF TELLING ME THAT SHE IS WITH A TALL MAN

M: NO PARTICULAR POINT, JUST A CONVERSATION

M: THAT'S NOT A CONVERSATION, THAT'S A STATEMENT

N: WHAT'S THE POINT OF MAKING STATEMENTS?

N: JUST A WAY OF TALKING

N: WHO IS TALKING?

M: I WAS TALKING

N: YOU WEREN'T TALKING TO ME

M: I WASN'T.

N: SO WHY SAY,"A WAY OF TALKING."

M: JUST TO DO SOMETHING, ONE HAS TO SAY SOMETHING

N: WHY SAY ANYTHING WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY

M: I HAD. SOMETHING TO SAY

N: LIKE WHAT?

M: I SAID, SHE IS WITH A TALL MAN...

N: YES, BUT INFORMATION IS IN-COMPLETE 

M: WHO'S INFORMATION?

N: YOURS

I WASN'T INFORMING ANY ONE

N: THEN WHY CALL IT. INFORMATION?

M: JUST A CERTAIN WAY OF TALKING. KEEPING BUSY.

N: THAT'S NOT A GREAT WAY OF KEEPING BUSY

M: WHAT IS?

N: DOING SOMETHING

M: SAYING SOMETHING IS DOING SOMETHING

N: DO YOU KNOW ENGLISH?

M: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

N: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?

M: AS MUCH AS YOU DO I GUESS...

N: NO YOU DON'T

M:WHAT IS IT THAT I DON'T KNOW?

N: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

M: OK, TEACH ME

N: "SAYING MEANS SAYINGAND"DOING MEANS DOING."

M: ANY THING I SAY IS MY FORM OF, "DOING."

N: THATS NONSENSE

M: NO, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. WHAT YOU SAY, THATS WHO YOU ARE

      AND WHOEVER YOU ARE THAT'S WHAT YOU DO

N: YOU ARE CARAZY

M: BETER TO BE CRAZY THAN BEING SO F**KING CRITICAL

      WHO ARE YOU ANY WAY? ALWAYS ON MY BACK. GET OFF MY BACK

      YOU ARE  ALWAYS  OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE ABOUT WHAT I SAY OR DO

      EVERY MOMENT OF MY LIFE YOU ARE TRYING TO PUT ME DOWN.

      GET OFF MY BACK, LIKE I SAID EARLIER ONCE. AND FORALL. GET OFF YOU 

      YOU MONKEY SCRACHING ME ALL DAY LONG WITH YOUR NEGATIVITY. GET OFF

      MY BACK OTHERWISE I WILL STAB YOU. I AM SO SICK OF YOU. I CAN'T BREATH

       YOU SAY ONE MORE THING AND YOU ARE DEAD...ONE MORE F**KING THING AND 

       YOU ARE DEAD, DEAD, DEAD. NOW SHUT THE F**K UP. SHUT UP, SHUT UP. I AM SICK

       OF YOUR RANT CLAWING MY BACK, SCRATHING MY NECK WITH YOUR VENOM AND

       AWFUL CLAWS. (Very angry now) YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH ONE MORE TIME AND I 

       WILL STAB YOU WITH  A KNIFE..I HAVE A KNIFE, MY SHARP KITCHEN KNIFE (He picks 

        up a big knife) LOOK. HOW LONG AND HOW SHARP IT IS.ONE MORE WORD AND YOU

        ARE DONE WITH. (He raises his knife)

N:    LEARN TO LIVE PROPERLY AND SPEAK PROPERLY.

        YOU CAN'T STAB ME. I DON'T EXIST. YOU WILL BE COMMITTING SUICIDE.

M:  ( LIFT UP THE KNIFE AND PIERCES HIS OWN SPINE.

                                                                        END OF PLAY

FRAGMENTS: 2

 FRAGMENTS:2

IN- FACT, MOST OF THE TIME, NO BODY CARES AT ALL.

BECAUSE NO BODY IS PAYING ATTENTION. EVERYONE

IS IN THEIR OWN WORLD.

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BREATH

MOVE

COMMUNICATE

--------------------------------

SHE DOESN'T CARE

NO BODY CARE

SO WHY SHOULD YOU?

WHY DO YOU CARE?

YES, I KNOW, YOU STILL CARE

WHY SHOULD YOU?

I DON'T CARE BUT I STILL THINK ABOUT IT

ABOUT CARING?

NO NOT ABOUT CARING, ABOUT WHY NO ONE CARES

YES, NO BODY CARES.

YOU DO KNOW ABOUT IT

SO, WHY DO YOU CARE?

I DON'T CARE, I ONLY THINK ABOUT WHY NO ONE CARES

WHO THE HELL CARE, IF NO BODY CARES

YOU ARE SO RIGHT

BUT YOU STILL CARE

NO, I DON'T CARE AS I SAID IT EARLIER

I JUST KEEP THINKING ABOUT WHY NO BODY CARES

STOP THINKING ABOUT IT

THINK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE

WHAT ELSE?

SOMETHING, ANYTHING

BUT THEN I WOULD HAVE TO. STOP THINKING ABOUT THAT AS WELL

HOW MANY THINGS I SHOULD STOP CARING ABOUT?

ALL OF THEM

STOP THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THEM EXCEPT YOURSELF

THINK ABOUT YOURSELF

ONLY YOURSELF....

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EVERYBODY IS FOCUSSED ON THE NEXT THING

YOU ARE FREE TO DO THE SAME...

THANKS FOR THE PERMISSION

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NOBLY AND OBEDIENT TO YOUR OWN DAIMON

(TO THE GOD THAT IS WITHIN YOU.)

------------------------------

PECULIAR LEADING PRINCIPAL AND PECULIAR TREATMENT THEY FOLLOW.

-----------------------------------------------------

YOU REMAIN VOLUNTARILY BELOW YOUR MARK,

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IMPROVE YOUR DISPOSITION

IMPROVE ACTIONS

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WHAT? WHERE? HOW?

---------------------------------

"IT"S IN DOING WHAT MAN'S NATURE REQUIRES."    Aurelius

---------------------------------------------------------

SENSE OF PURPOSE

WALKING

READING

WRITING

APT

HEALTH

DIET

DRAWINGS

----------------------

"CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN WHERE YOU ARE NOW

AND WHERE HAPPINESS LIES

MAKE LIFE CHANGES

THAT CREATES REAL ENVIORMANTS 

OF HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF"                 ??

-------------------------------------

AM I SEEKING HAPPINESS FROM EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES?

AND SEEKING ATTENTION FROM OTHERS?

BOTH...

--------------------------

A LOW LIFE, LOWER THAN MANY

SHOWING OFF THAT SHE IS SOMEBODY IMPORTANT.

WHILE SHE IS TOTALLY SELF ABSORBED.

SELFISH, RUDE, UNCOUTH, UNSOPHISTICATED-

CONSIDERING HERSELF AN INTELLECTUAL.

MY BUTT

SHUT THE F**K UP

LET OTHERS READ

STOP YOU BEHAVIOR OF SELF IMPORTANCE

GO HOME, YELL AND SCREAM

AND FEEL IMPORTANT.

THIS CAFE BELONGS TO EVERYONE WHO CARY A BIG BOOK

ALL DAY LONG AND CAN'T CONCENTRATE ON ONE SENTENCE

BECAUSE OF THE LIKES OF YOU.

STOP YAPPING

I PAID 8 DOLLARS FOR ESPRESSO...

I NEED TO EDUCATE NYSELF

BUT YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT

YOU ARE SO SO EDUCATED ALL READY ON BULLSHIT

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"DON'T FEEL HURT BY EXTERNAL THINGS

HOW SHITTY CAN THEY BE?

SMELLY, ROTTEN EXTERNAL THINGS CAN HURT YOU

UNBELIEVABLE

IMAGINE HOW LOW OF YOU TO THINK THAT!

WHAT A SHAM!

AND YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE EDUCATED AND TALENTED?

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FRAGMENTS

 FRAGMENTS

Don't do what you promise not to do

Do whaat you always say, "You should do."

'Don't" I said

'Don't."

Don't you get it?

No, you don't get.

I am so mad at you

So mad...

I could kill you for that.

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"Why must you discontinue what you love?"

"What do you love?"

"Yes, what do you love?"

"What do you love?"

Silence comes...Silence comes...Silence comes.

-------------------------------------------------------

It will come

When it will come

Why are you waiting for it?

Death, I mean...

-------------------------------

"Don't call her"

"Don't call him."

"Don't call anyone."

"What's wrong with you?"

"What the f**k is wrong with you?"

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Good start

Bad end

so simple

so, so simple

Bad end

Just that

Bad end

-------------------

"Getting fat."

"Fat enough."

"You are in a bad mood today."

"Only today?"

'"Only today?'

"Getting fat for days, months, years..."

"Shame on you. Deteriorating every month, every year."

"Shame on you."

'And shame on you, reminding me every day

every month, every year, Shame on you."

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'WRITE A PLAY

F: Write a play

L: Really?"

F: Yes, write a play.

L: You write a play.

F: I am not a playwright.

L: Neither am I.

F: What are you then?

L: I don't know

F: Who knows then?

L: "You do. 

You know, you know everything

     You tell me, who I am. You always tell me

     "Oh! You don't know who You are?

Tell me, who am I? Who am I? Who am I?

Tell me for the last time and get the hell out of my life."

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Unending trauma

Thats what traumas are for

Unending....

-------------------------------

'Mental illness is it?"

'Yes, yes, yes."

-------------------------

"I am sick of you."

"And I am of you."

-----------------------

'Go to the beach."

"And?"

"And, Roast."

------------------

"They all die desolate."

"But you are living and desolate."

---------------------------------------

"So busy, so, so busy."

"And you?"

"Me?"

"Me busy?"

 "Me?"

"Yes, get busy like all of us.

  We are busy, working, working,

  get busy...Like us, us,  we are busy.

" Me? busy? with what? Doing what?"

   "Work...work, sweetheart, work.

 "Work? Work? Work? What work?"

  "Do the work you do. Work."

   "I write plays."

     "That's not work, that's bullshit, do the real work like us."

  "What kind of work do you do?"

" WE WORK, WE WORK. WE SWEAT."

   "OH! THAT KIND OF WORK. I HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS. IN MY PLAYS I DANCE

     AND DANCE MAKE ME SWEAT, I SWEAT A LOT...A LOT, A WHOLE LOT...ALL KINDS OF

     SWEAT POURS OUT OF MY POURS..."

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  A: "Charlotte wrote Whuthering Heights."

B: " And Emily wrote, Jane Eyre"

  A: "You want to bet?"

  B  "Yes."

  A: "How much?"

  B: "One hundred dollars."

YOU DON'T KNOW

 YOU DON'T KNOW

(A short dramatic sketch)

By: Bina Sharif

copyright:binasharif 2025

A: You don't know

B: That's the problem

A: You don't know

B: Unbelievable

A: Yes, it's unbelievable

B: You don't know

A: Neither do you

B: Waste

A: Every one's waste

A: No, yours

B: And yours

A: Yours and mine. 

B: waste, waste...

A: And what is this?

B: Who knows, and why do you always ask me condescending questions?

     Who are you?

A: Yes, who are you? Who are you? Who are you?

B:  Silence comes...silence comes...silence comes.

B: 

 

WHEN SOMEONE DISRESPECT YOU

 WHEN SOME ONE DISRESPECT YOU...

WHEN SOMEONE DISRESPECT YOU, YOUR REAL INSTINCT IS

TO REACT,TO EXPLAIN YOURSELF,TO DEFEND YOUR WIRTH

BUT WITH YOUR REACTION YOU SACRIFICE YOUR CLARITY, 

YOUR CALM. A STOIC NEVER LET DISRESPECT PULL THEM

OUT OF CHARACTER BECAUSE REAL POWER IS NEVER LOUD

IT'S CONTROLLED.

FOUR RULES ONE MUST FOLLOW WHEN SOME ONE DISRESPECT YOU.

1: DON'T ARGUE FOR VALIDATION. THEIR OPINION DOES NOT

DEFINE YOUR VALUE, YOUR SELF DISCIPLINE DOES, YOUR SELF

CONTROL DOES.

2: DON'T MIRROR THEIR BEHAVIOR. YOU SACRIFICE YOUR CLARITY

YOUR CALM.

3:DON'T LET EGO SPEAK FOR YOU. IF PRIDE WANTS REVENGE,

YOUR WISDOM WANTS DISTANCE

4: DON'T WASTE YOUR ENERGY TO PROVE YOUR WORTH

YOUR VALUE, YOUR SELF DISIPLIN ,YOUR SELF CONTROL DOES

5: TRUE STRENGTH STAYS CALM AAND THE MOST POWERFUL RESPONSE

IS CHOOSING NOT TO REACT

FIVE HARSH TRUTHS OF LIFE

 FIVE HARSH TRUTHS OF LIFE

LIFE WILL HUMBLE YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN- UNTILL YOU UNDERSTAND IT'S RULES

1: STAY CALM

NOTHING IS PERMANENT. NOT JOY, NOT PAIN, NOT PEOPLE.

EVERYTHING CHANGES.

2: BE PRIVATE

NOT EVERYONE WANT THE BEST OF YOU. PROTECT YOUR PLANS

UNTILL THEY BECOME REALITY

3: VALUE YOUR TIME. IT NEVER COMES BACK. WHAT YOU WASTE TODAY

BECOMES TOMORROW'S REGRET.

4: HIDE YOUR SADNESS

NO ONE TRUELY CARES. THE WORLD RESPECTS STRENGTH

NOT COMPLAINTS

5: BE ALONE:

NOT EVERYONE WILL STAY FOR EVER AND SOLITUDE

TEACHES WHAT COMPANY CAN NOT

6: ACCEPTANCE

ACCEPTANCE IS NOT WEAKNESS. IT'S WISDOM. WHEN YOU STOP 

RESISTING THE TRUTH-LIFE STOP HURTING SO MUCH.

LIFE

 LIFE

Life is very cruel

Or we are very cruel towards life

We all know it's one life

And rather a very short one

But we behave as if it's our enemy

And we treat it horribly

We behave as it's not our life

It is not our life which is cruel

It's our own cruelty which soaks it

Into an unblessed and miserable state

Be a lover to your life...

Not even a good friend

But a lover...

A sweet heart of a lover...

Remember that!

From now on-remember

Don't always be a moaner

You have a lover now

A great lover...

A gift of god

Treat it well with care

And attention

Be thankful.

God blessed you with a hell of a lot.

Remember that...

'THE ONLY WORDS"

 "THE ONLY WORDS"

The only words

We say to a thing,

When we desire it,

Is that we say to it

Be,

And it is.

(from Qoran, Surat, The Bee.

OH! GAZA

 OH! GAZA

Oh! Gaza, you made me a writer

Just the pain and suffering of so many children of Gaza

Made me a writer

Now I am a writer

I was children'riter.s doctor before

Now the murder of children

Oh! so many, so many children

So many children of Gaza

So many children...

Made me a writer

JAMES JOYCE'S SETTINGS

 JAMES JOYCE'S SETTINGS

Topics

Issues

Pre- occupations

City, which drove him on to his material

Politics

Literary Politics

Autobiographical

Music

Social Comedy

Public and private faces

Marriage Bond

Ties of present and past

Realism and symolism

Verbal felicity

Vivacious and lively

Lulling and incantatory

'take the threads of which this one story, "THhe Dead."

is made, and follow them.

'Bawdry has liberating quality" JJ

"Perception of human condition as a state of exile>"

" Mastery of his work because of the rich texture. and it's religious sense 

of mystery and unity of life.f exile.

It's conviction of the validity of, "Myth." in interpreting that mystery

and it's perception of the human condition as a state of exile.

"It's something fails us first we feel. Then we fail."  JJ

" Contact with the elemental or primitive forces constraints us

to overcome the fears and meanness which are part of our human nature." JJ

"THEORY OF BEAUTY.'

 "Thomas Aquinas's theory of beauty."

Three things are needed for beauty

Wholeness

Harmony

Radiance

CHAOS AND NOTHINGNESS

 CHAOS AND NOTHINGNESS

Chaos and nothingness won't go away

But for sure can be postponed for the day for doing

something  you really love to do.

That would keep chaos and nothingness away

for at least one day.

And every day will be that day

When chaos had been postponed temporarily

UN-NERVED

You must not be un-nerved by everyboday

and by every occasion, otherwise you will destroy yourself.

Every moment of the day would be ruined by every one

whom you encounter.

Prepare yourself in advance to be totally un-nerved by every atrocity.

Always have a smile on for irritants of all kinds.

That smile one must reserve for anyone who can be a source of annoyance

of one kind or another.

That smile will keep you languidly amused.

EMPTINESS OF THE DAY

Emptiness of the day,

of the aternoon,

of the evening

and of the night...

How to fill it?

Try, try, try your best to do something, anything which interest you

Anything which you like, anything you love, anything which you

would ;ike to talk about, like to think about, laugh about.

Remember, remember things you loved and lost.

Any way memories of loss can be a source of sorrow,

but try to make them pleasant like pleasant, pleasurable companions.

"Some mysterious thing coming back from the past." John Banville (The Sea)

"The past beats inside me like a second heart." Banville (The Sea)

PLAYS TO BE SEEN

 PLAYS TO BE SEEN

1:BEDLAM THEATER TILL DEC 21, 263 W 86 ST. CALL BLAKE

2: STAGE READING, SYMPHONY SPACE DEC 16

3: NAZERETH PRESS NIGHTS: HASSAN'S SHOW

4: VERY IMPORTANT. PREVIEWS NOV 25 ST ANN'S WARE HOUSE ANNA CHRISTI

5: SKIRBALL DANCE,  NOV21

6: VERY IMPORTANT. SKIRBALL SEASON STARTS JAN 2026

7 ORATOR, SIGNATURE TILL NOV 23

8 PUBLIC: GIRL INTERRUPTED MAY 2026??

9: PUBLIC THEATER:INITIVE PRESS OPENING NOV 20

10: SOHO REP, SONG JAN 14

CHILDREN

CHILDREN

Children are curious.

They watch everyone

Want to communicate with everyone

Want to know everything

To them no one is a stranger

They want to get to know everyone

Everything is fascinating to them

They silently ask questions

Wonder about things...flowers, trees, lakes, water, people.

They are inquisitive

They are alive.

I want to live like a child

I want this world to be fascinating to me

I want to notice the flowers, water, the moon, the sun, the people.

My desire to be a child is so strong that I have become a child

I write like a child

I draw like a child

My curiosity is like a child

I think like a child

I watch like a child

I talk like a child

I sleep like a child

I live like a child.

I AM ALIVE 

SOMEBODY, A SKETCH BY BINA SHARIF

SOMEBODY: 

A SKETCH

I AM A SOMEBODY

WHAT?

I SAID, "I AM A SOMEBODY."

YOU ARE?

YES

BUT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF YOU

BECAUSE YOU ARE A NOBODY.

(NOTE: Shortest possible theatrical sketch ever written.

 

MONTH OF NOVEMBER

 MONTH O F NOVEMBER

Nov: 6

I read two short stories by Maupassant

1:Prisoners

2: Two soldiers

Nov:7

ATCA Conference

Friday: 9-5

Saturday: 9-1

Sunday: We must send scripts to fawzia

Any day in Nov:

I must read the script of: Stream of consciousness of singing birds."

Go talk to Alex about the voice over

I have to stop eating bread completely

Then I have to fast twice a week.

Writing

'No one is happy.

No one is as unhappy as we are

We are so emotional and so loyal to our belief

People fake it

People are so slippery, oily snakes

One day with this one

The next day with an other

No morals

No class

No sophistication ...

Just happy...

Very happy...

Very very happy.  BS

Blaise Pascal

 Sayings of Blaise Pascal

"All of man's unhappiness stems from his inability to stay alone

in his room contemplating without self loathing and without distraction."

ART

"An outline was drawn of her lover with a charcoal stick.

Thus art was born-out of fear out of fear of and grief at forgetting."

ENDURE

"Then you have no refuge. but write."

'Why we should despite everything, good art help us recall reasons-then

you have no refuge but writing."  Tennessee Williams

"Know the joys of harsh life and pray."

"The taste for productive concentration should in the mature man-replace

the taste for wastage,"  Baudelaire

Food

Hummus

Chick peas

Tahini sauce

Olive oil

Lemon

Garlic

Cumin

Topping: Paprika, parsley, olive oil.

I AM GAZA

 I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

SAY IT,

 AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

SAY IT,

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

NEVER STOP SAYING IT

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM AZA

I WILL SAY IT TILL MY LAST BREATH

I AM AZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

REPEAT AFTER ME

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM AZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

NEVER FORGET

I AM GAZA I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA 

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

MY HEART IS IN GAZA

MY SOUL IS IN GAZA

MY PRIDE IS IN GAZA

MY LIFE IS IN GAZA

MY TEARS ARE IN GAZA

MY SORROW IS IN GAZA

MY GRIEF. IS IN GAZA

MY LOVE IS IN GAZA

MY RESISTANCE IS IN GAZA

MY BRAVERY IS IN GAZA

MY TEARS ARE IN GAZA

MY CHILDREN ARE IN GAZA

MY MOTHER IS IN GAZA

MY FATHER IS IN GAZA

MY GRAND MOTHER IS IN GAZA

MY GRAND FATHER IS IN GAZA

MY CHILDREN ARE I GAZA

MY OLIVE TREES ARE IN GAZA

MY OLIVE OIL IS IN GAZA

MY HUMUS IS IN GAZA

MY BLOOD IS IN GAZA

MY SABAR IS IN GAZA

MY PATIENCE IS IN GAZA

MY HOPE IS IN GAZA

MY COURAGE IS IN GAZA

MY LIFE IS IN GAZA

MY GRAVE IS IN GAZA

MY TEARS ARE IN GAZAA

MY GRIEF IS IN GAZA

REPEAT AFTER ME

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

SAY IT

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

SAY IT AGAIN AND AGAIN

I AM GAZA 

I AM GAZA. 

IAM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

SAY IT

MY HUNGER IS IN GAZA

MY LIFE IS IN GAZA

MY SABER IS IN GAZA

MY HOPE IS IN GAZA

MY TEARS ARE IN GAZA

MY GRIEF IS IN GAZA

I LIVE IN GAZA

I LIVE IN GAZA

I LIVE IN GAZA

I SEE GAZA

I SEE GAZA

I SEE. GAZA

I SEE GAZA

I SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GAZA

I SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GAZA

I SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA

I SEE THE HUNGER IN GAZA

I SE THE HUNGER IN GAZA

I SEE THE HUNGER IN GAZA

I SEE THE TEARS IN GAZA

I SEE THE TEARS IN GAZA

I SEE THE TEARS IN GAZA

I SEE THE GRIEF IN GAZA

I SEE THE GRIEF IN GAZA

I SEE. THE GRIEF IN GAZA

I SEE THE CHILDREN IN GAZA

I SEE THE CHILDREN IN GAZA

I SEE THE CHILDREN IN GAZA

I SEE THE CHILDREN IN GAZA

I SEE THE HUNGER IN GAZA

I SEE THE HUNGER IN GAZA

I SEE THE HUNGER IN GAZA

I SEE THE HUNGER IN GAZA

I SEE GOD IN GAZA

I SEE ALLAH IN GAZA

I SEE THE PROPHET IN GAZA

I SEE THE HOPE IN GAZA

I SEE MYSELF IN GAZA

I SEE MYSELF IN GAZA

I SEE MYSELF IN GAZA

HOLDING HANDS OF HUNGRY CHILDREN

OLDING HANDS OF HUNGRY CHILDREN

HOLDING HANDS OF HUNGRY CHILDREN

WIPING THEIR TEARS

WIPING THERI TEARS

WIPING THEIR TEARS

WIPING THEIR TEARS

I SEE GAZA

 I SEE GAZA

I SEE GAZA

BECAUSE...

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

REPEAT AFTER ME

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

SAY IT, SAY IT AGAIN AND AGAIN

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM WITH YOU GAZA

I AM WITH YOU GAZA

I AM WITH YOU GAZA

SAY IT AGAIN

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA...

I AM GAZA

A MILLION TIMES

SAY IT

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA

I AM GAZA.

I AM WITH YOU CHILDREN OF GAZA

I AM WITH YOU CHILDREN OF GAZA

I AM WITH YOU CHILDREN OF GAZA

I AM WITH YOU CHILDREN OF GAZA

I AM HOLDING YOUR HANDS

I AM HOLDING YOUR HANDS

I AM HOLDING YOUR HANDS

I AM WITH YOU CHILDREN OF GAZA

I AM WITH YOU CHILDREN OF GAZA

I AM WITH YOU CHILDREN OF GAZA

I WILL NEVER ABANDON YOU

NEVER, NEVER.

I ALMOST FORGOT

 I ALMOST FORGOT

I was going to go out for brakfast

But I forgot that it was raining

Yesterday the same thing happened

The rain...

The rain came all of a sudden

And I had no umbrella

My claning lady threw all 

The things in the cupboard

Including the iron...

I have been wearing wrinkled clothes since then.

People stare at me in the streets

But I say silently, go away, go away...

My clothes are not wrinkled

But designed by a new designer

Whose name you won't be able to pronounce...

Just stop looking at me

Because right now

And for the rest of my life

I am not going to be a people's person

That has already damaged me...

People

People

People?

Who are these people?

People who have occupied your brain

Your mind, your self esteem, your troubled heart

All of your life.

I am finally done with something called, "People."

Enough is enough

Isn't it?

That's what the English language taught us

Or did this foreign language

Of the colonizers taught us

'It is superior langauge

The language of the superior people

The superior race

The language of the colonizers

It has to be superior

And whoever speak English 

Is superior...

Bullshit...

That's what I thought

When I came here...

Every one was mostly white

At least in the neighborhood

Where I ended up...

And they all spoke English

And I, stupid me, silly me, colonized me,

Thought, Oh! great! I am with the most

Superior and sophisticated people...

"People."

Oh! people. people, people...

The word, "People " became my guru

One worship one's guru

Right?

Right.

That's the function of a guru

To be worshiped

Oh! in this foreign country of superior 

People...

I must befriend them

That's why I am here

That's why I crossed the ocean 

Right?

Right

So, by my own choice, and my own will

I tried hard to surround myself by English 

Speaking people who were white...

You can't go wrong

I would say.

They all speak English

And they are white

I belong to that group...

Back home also, the people

Who spoke English were richer

Smarter...

That's what we thought

The one who spoke English wer closer to the colonizers

They kissed ass to be accepted

People who didn't speak English

They always had inferiority complex...

'I just came back from London"

Oh! yes, my hand bag is from London

I bought it from Harrods,

It's Gucci...

The non English speaking people

Had no idea what the word, "Gucci." meant

SO, they went home feeling more inferior than ever

And that's what went on for decades...

When I came here I didn't feel inferior

Or colonized

At least I wasn't aware of it ...

Because I was college educated

And came here with few dollars

Unlike other poor immigrants

And since I was educated and spoke some English

I was seeking English speaking people to be my friends

I was so naive even with dollars in my pocket

And a college degree

That I didn't realized that te people I am seeking to be

my friends are native people and English is their language

They all speak English...sweet heart...

I didn't think about that in my excitement

That excitement was stupidity never the less...

Since I was so high with being in America especially

In the might New York City and in Manhattan never the less...

"Oh! she lives in Manhattan"

Back home the rumor was spreading

At least the colonized so called sophisticated people

Who were actually jahal and very low class

But since they bought their bags from Harrods of London

We assumed that they were high class

That's how ignorant and naive we were even with our college

degrees...

So, I befriended English speaking people

Tried very hard to befriend them

Because they had some kind of attitude of superiority

But to my utmost horror after years of living here

I suddenly realized (Extremely late) that they were all

Low class, really low classed, trying to hide with fake

high class attitude...

I thought that whoever speaks English is educated, sophisticated

And high class people.

I all my life surrounded myself with fake, fake, fake people

Posing like somebodies while they were no bodies...zero..they were zero

And I was below zero not to ever think and realize that who ever speak

English is not high class...

It's their country and their language is English...

That's how much colonized we were by the English

Who occupied us for eternity

And our brains and our souls were all occupied since our birth

Or even before our birth...

I surrounded myself amongst worthless nobodies

Who most of the time would make condescending remarks

even after my days of achievements

And I would come home worrying and wondering about what they

just said and I never said anything back...

Looking back, first of all I would never be with them

If I was clear about one thing and one thing alone

That I was a person of integrity, colonized or not

That one thing we can never take out of our blood,

The crimes the settlers and colonizers committed 

Against our ancestors and and destroyed our soul

And we still came to their countries thinking that we are going 

There to advance ourselves, educate our selves

Learn the way of the world...and be part of the world where

We can speak up, express ourself, speak against the new occupatinos

New genocides, new atrocities being committed by the ancestors of the

ones who ocupied us and our body and soul....

But at least I don't surround myself with any people

People who speak English or French or German or even Arabic of

Saudi Arabia their neighbors...

'STAY AWAY FROM PEOPLE OF ANY CLASS

YOU NEVER KNOW WHO THEY ARE!

LIKE SARTRE SAID, 

"HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE."

SO TRUE, SO VERY TRUE.

YOU WANT TO GO FOR COFFEE?

FOR BREAKFAST?

YES. I LOVE TO GO FOR COFFEE. 

I GO EVERY DAY FOR COFFEE

I HAVE MADE MANY AFE OWNERS VERY RICH

YES, I WOULD LOVE TO GO FOR COFFEE

"YES, BUT ALONE BY MYSELF.

WHY DI I NEED YU TO GO WITH ME FOR COFFEE?

SO YOU CAN MAKE MORE CONDESCENDING REMARKS 

ABOUT ME WITH A FAKE SMILE?

THOSE DAYS ARE OVER SWEETHEART

OVER, "DONE AND DUSTED." AS THE ENGLISH SAY

I WANT TO SIP MY HOT BOILING COFFEE ALONE

I WANT TO ENJOY MY COFFEE

THATS WHY I PAY $10 FOR IT

AND FOR THAT I HAVE TO BE BY MY SELF

I HAPPEN TO ENJOY MY OWN COMPANY

AND FOR THAT...

I WANT TO BE ALONE

GLOOM

 GLOOM

Gloom is inside or outside?

Outside it's raining, dark, cloudy, drizzling, weeping, cursing the sun

Inside is quiet, boring, you can call it peaceful, dull, dark, quiet, deadly

You would rather be outside or inside?

What a question!

Why would I be anywhere?

Wait for the rain stop

And?

Then go out

Out?

Where?

Somewhere...

Where?

Lunch

Not hungry

Did you eat lunch?

I don't eat lunch

Do

Did you have breakfast?

Tea

What about breakfast?

Not yet

What are you waiting for?

Excitement

Thats not coming, eat something

Who told you that the excitement is not coming?

Look around you, look out side, look inside...is there any hope of excitement coming?

Then what's coming?

Nothing is coming

That's gloomy

Yes, gloom is coming

I thought that the glom was outside?

Yes, but now it's coming inside

Why?

Things which are outside need to come in...

It's cold, dark and gloomy outside

And inside?

Don't be worrying, have patience, soon you will have company

Oh! people are coming in?

People?

Yes, people

Which people?

Just people...

People are having lunch somewhere

Where?

Somewhere

In the rain?

No, inside

Inside where?

Oh! please. where do people have lunch usually?

Some lousy greasy spoon filled with gloom

No way, people pay 45 dollars for two eggs and a deadly slice of limp white bread

You might as well welcom gloom from outside to come in and?

And?

And make him a cup of tea

Gloom is a man?

Yup...he took all the power of the sun and the moon and the rain and your money...

Why would i welcome him then?

Because, because, because, you have nothing else to do...

I can't go out, I don't have William Scot's walking stick...

My favorite place for breakfast is very far and it's rainy and gloomy outside

And I don't have a walking stick...

Would you have gloom or the walking stick?

Walking stick

Then you will go out?

Yes

And?

And what?

You will fall down in the slush and mud and broken side walks with dogs coming to get you

and you will fall and get hurt or even die...

Oh!

Yes, oh!

So what should I do?

Stay in, stay safe, let gloom come in...at least you won't be alone and you will still be alive

Does gloom keep you alive?

Of course, every day, every day, day after day, day after day...

You must be thankful to  gloom for being inside the room and not dead outside near the wet rats...

Oh! gee, you are so gloomy

Look outside, look inside, look around you...

Only source of being alive is gloom...

Did you get it sweetheart? get up and have breakfast...