Dear Misr,
It's a glorious day. The dictator has been uninstalled 100 per cent as one demonstrator tweeted.
I'm immensely proud for Egypt and eternally grateful for those brave people who took to your streets and reclaimed you as ours. Egypt is free. Egypt is full of optimism. Egypt is proud.
But as our people celebrate in Tahrir Square, I suddenly feel disconnected from it all. Absolute joy spreads across the midan and across the world and I'm supposed to be ecstatic, but instead I feel a subdued bitter sweetness, for I was not there. I was not on your streets of Cairo for the past 18 days and I'm not in Tahrir Square now standing shoulder to shoulder with all those fellow jubilant Egyptians. I feel de-rooted.
No matter how much they claim that technology has connected us, these moments can only be felt sincerely when you are there, feet on the ground, one person next to the other, sharing life the way one should.
But I end this confession with full of hope and optimism. I will take to the streets of London instead, and I will celebrate your freedom in whichever way I can. Long live Jan 25th. Freedom, democracy and justice forever.
yours faithfully,
Dok-Szene
It's a glorious day. The dictator has been uninstalled 100 per cent as one demonstrator tweeted.
I'm immensely proud for Egypt and eternally grateful for those brave people who took to your streets and reclaimed you as ours. Egypt is free. Egypt is full of optimism. Egypt is proud.
But as our people celebrate in Tahrir Square, I suddenly feel disconnected from it all. Absolute joy spreads across the midan and across the world and I'm supposed to be ecstatic, but instead I feel a subdued bitter sweetness, for I was not there. I was not on your streets of Cairo for the past 18 days and I'm not in Tahrir Square now standing shoulder to shoulder with all those fellow jubilant Egyptians. I feel de-rooted.
No matter how much they claim that technology has connected us, these moments can only be felt sincerely when you are there, feet on the ground, one person next to the other, sharing life the way one should.
But I end this confession with full of hope and optimism. I will take to the streets of London instead, and I will celebrate your freedom in whichever way I can. Long live Jan 25th. Freedom, democracy and justice forever.
yours faithfully,
Dok-Szene
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