when jane austen wrote; "there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. nobody can be more devoted to home than I am."

I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. Yes, I will be free and entire and absolute and mistress of my life.
Virginia Woolf,

I had a very simple dream
"to be remembered."
Turned out that here we don't live our dreams, we just chase them.

"أستلقي ولا أنام أحلمُ بالعالم
‏بحياتي الثقيلة للغاية
‏أقول: حياتي ثقيلةٌ يا..
‏ولا يجيء اسم على لساني

‏الليل واســع
‏وفي قلبي غصّة طويلة
‏لأني لا أحب أحدًا كثيرًا
‏إلى حدّ أن أنادي باسمه في الليل"

_آلاء حسانين

Now I have children of my own
They ask their father, "What will I be?
Will I be pretty, will I be rich?"

I tell them tenderly
"Que será، será

Whatever will be, will be

When I was just a little boy
I asked my father, "What will I be?
Will I be handsome, will I be rich?"
Here's what he said to me
"Que será، será
"Que será, será

Whatever will be, will be

In the hushing dusk under
a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind
to watch the cactus bloom
And strange hands halted me,
the looming shadows danced
I fell down to the thorny brush
and felt the trembling hands