My dear English expatriate families, I know that life can be difficult sometimes, being far away from your country and standing in the sidelines while Omanis struggle or achieve success. What can I say, that has not been already said to other groups? You arrived in this country before I was born, and some of you have lived longer than I have here. I know it’s a difficult burden on you, but you are the ambassadors of civilization here, and if speaking a word of Arabic does not provide you with comfort here, it’s because we as Omanis have failed you. Your fellow expatriates in other countries are your competitors: it’s up to you to be focused and achiever greater goals than them. A person feels so huffed and puffed and mighty when he realizes that reality as about to glaze his eyes with purpose. But what is it all for, if at the end of the line, we end up re-experiencing boredom? The only defence we have for such gazetteering is that was have no choice. For purpose, when it avails itself, must be seized, allowing the remainder of the time to be used for slumber when nothing can be done. You have rubbed the lamp, now your wish is my command.
Let’s face it. If a person is given wealth and a title, it is not to glorify him, but rather to curtail his power so that it is either limited or reduced in influence. A person with knowledge and communication can run the earth, and wealth is given to him to give others the chance to participate in this activity. This, of course, does not apply to us, for our pockets are shallow, and are ridden with holes. Nonetheless, we must recognize that the amount of knowledge available, so long as a single human being in a single lifetime is concerned, is infinite, meaning that the process of its acquisition should be based purely on emotional grounds, rather than anything else. Balancing out the interplay between emotions and information, that is, the emotive-information lattice, is an important condition for life management, especially after the reading, thought matrix is harmonized. Words are ammo, and your mind a gun. Use your heart, tempered by your mind, to determine what is right and...
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