May you always choose

May you choose to see beyond life's storms, to uncover the blessings that the rain brings, and during all of life's twists and turns, may you always choose.
--Michelle Sedas

61 Years Of Humanless Rights

We have been hearing for ages of how the developed world aka The West stands for justice, peace, freedom & democracy. We only hear because what they practice is the opposite. They preach but don't act on it.

For 61 years we have no human rights of whats so ever. You know what your hands done better than us! Ripping us from our Watan (home/land) it is all documented in your archives. Still if you need more, we do have ownership certificates for our land, houses, farms, and water wells. We have our identity cards.

You have made UNHR principles & UN resolutions a joke to laugh at. We are aware of the amused human rights UN created on the same year we were deprived them!

• We are Palestinians and no one has the right to rip us from our nationality.
• We have the right to own our property and no one has the right for our land, farms, and homes.
• We have the right for freedom.
• We have the right to protect our honor and reputation.
• We have the right for freedom of opinion and expression without being subjected to prison and punishment.
• We have the right to take part in our country, directly or through freely chosen representatives; not to put sanctions on our democratically elected government.
• We have the right that the will of our people be the basis of the authority of government. We choose.
• We have the right for life & liberty and security of persons.
• We have the right for freedom of movement and residence within our state boarders.
• We have the right for a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of ourselves including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right for security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond control.
• We have the right to education.
• We have the right to participate in the cultural life of the community; to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

We are humans if you have not noticed! We have the same rights as any American, British, Canadian, Italian, German, and French. We have hundreds of UN resolutions that give you all the right to act decently just for once in your history. I am one of 10 million others who are not asking you for your mighty power. We are not pledging you to move your troops to Israel as you have done to other countries for no justified or legal reason . We are asking you to cut the financial & military aid from Israel. Above this you don't have the right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth in UNHR.

I wonder why countries like Latin America, Africa, Arabs...Any country that is oppressed, ripped of its dignity, honor, resources; don't withdraw from UN as a protest for the corruption & double standards.

For your amusement, here is the UNHR Joke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights

On which bases can I identify myself?

I am in always quest to understand myself to know exactly who I am. Since I am in constant change I have been thinking that I need to come up by a kind of classification to fit myself in. I don't care about giving myself labels as much to know who I am really.

I started by combining my nationality, religion, skin colour, gender, ethnic group, to come up by who I am. This left lot of parts of me unidentified. So I can't be only this. Specially, these are among the things I didn't choose in life but they certainly shaped who I am.

Then I thought of my social roles, roles I perform on life stage; daughter, sister, student, friend, lover, manager, colleague, aunt; and more. Is the sum of these social roles define who I am?
To some extent in each role I behave, react, and act differently. More, these roles are not static; from one period to another I change roles; move out from some & take new ones. Does this mean I change my identity each time? As well, I don't place same priority for each role. Example, being an aunt is more important for me than being a manager.

Reflecting deeper, I realize I am not the same person 15,10, 7, 3 years ago. I assume I am growing ;-) My character has changed from experiences I went through, knowledge i acquired and skills I learned. But certain values have not changed, I am still serious, playful, kind, bla bla. Which characteristics can be changed & which arenintrinsic? Are my self core characteristics genetics, something I can't change but they could label me for as long as I live!

For me to recap my kharabeesh:

1. I am Chinese, Christian, Female, with black skin colour (inborn)
2. I am a daughter, sister, manger, friend (social roles)
3. I am kind, generous, stupid (core characteristics)

There is a something in me refuse to be the sum of these, as two classifications: inborn, & core characteristics I have no control of.

I guess I need to search to know more how self identify is classified.

Chicken Ala Carte

We are so used to good food that we are not any more guilty of wasting it. How can we allow for people to die out of hunger in 21 century! Some pets around the world eat by far better food than those kids. How much waste/excess food there is after parties!

p.s. I am sure there is a lot of caring, considerate people but its not enough.