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Overview

  • 19 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Arabic, English, Finnish, German, Panjabi, Punjabi, Urdu; learning Chinese, Hebrew (modern), Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
  • 27, Male
  • Member since 2018
  • Senior Mobile Engineer
  • University of Michigan
  • From Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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About Me

https://youtu.be/TQxs3EbOyf8

My mantra in a nutshell: We are all here to to create meaning by feeling, by thinking, by desiring, by inventing, by experiencing, and by appreciating - and our duty is to vehemently add value to everyone else's life 😊 the greatest goal of the human life is to find out our true self, and its relationship to the sacred that is fundamental to our universe

Lately I’ve been trying to volunteer more, I want to reduce destructive cravings and motives of the human nature while cultivating kindness, compassion, generosity and love for all

In a surprising turn of adventures, I was road tripping across North America, being a wanderlust and exploring being a tourist everywhere, trying to get a sense of why people chose to live where they lived. This brought me to the Bay, I fell in love with this place and decided to move here, had to endure a lot of hardship to make that happen and the rest is history! 🌉

I've been journaling for 7 years, so before you tell me I did something wrong I'll probably already have written about it in my journals haha! I like to question and study, a lot, and indulge in philosophical conversations that otherwise people think are not worthy of a thought.
I'm a hardcore believer of PLUR. I believe we are all here to experience life and everything in it, and my passion is to make everyone's experience better, whether I can do that by just being nice, being helpful, teaching, sharing, helping or innovating something that adds quality to the life of mankind - depends on the opportunity.
I appreciate music and nature more than I can describe. I'm a sucker for nature, I consider it is worship to appreciate nature and everything within. I go the extra mile for the people in my life, whether you have someone to count on or not, there's always going to be me! It blows my mind to meet ingenious people all around the world and to see them do great things that are improving the world day by day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My philosophy is that we all are here to experience and our responsibility is to make the quality of everyone's experience better.
I believe that the more you know, the less. Really convivial and outgoing, excited to learn new things from new people that I turn into my friends wherever I go. The best part of it is to learn something new that I have not yet came across, or share something they haven't.
I believe if you've positive good energy you'll meet likewise people no matter what happens to you in life or what kind of people you meet or no matter where you are. I like to believe I am one of those and thus I love to know the good in people wherever I go, influencing their life for the better part. To know of things they learnt in life and to share things I learnt in life. I think that's an opportunity to live multiple lifetimes. Makes me feel like my existence matters when i come back home after having spent quality time with amazing people thousands of miles away, knowing that I made a good impact on them and in somewhat way they'll also feel the same way :)

Interests

  • writing
  • photography
  • music festivals
  • cooking
  • working out
  • modeling
  • meditation
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • piano
  • hiking
  • camping
  • astronomy
  • psychology
  • volunteering
  • nature
  • exploring
  • edm
  • exploring new places
  • programming
  • deep conversations
  • psychedelics
  • astrophysics
  • deep house
  • astrophotography
  • space exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

EDM

Melodic Progressive House, Lesh, Lumidelic, Above and Beyond, Armin Van Buren, Aurosonic, Dani Corbalan, Mahmut Orhan, Robert Cristian, Nekliff, Craig Connelly, Artic Moon, Solarstone, Hydra, Cold blue, Kyle Watson, Steve Angello, Illenium, Ian Bluestone, Eric Prydz, San HOLO, Kasbo, Nekliff, Tchami, Chris Lorenzo, Chris Lake, Andrew Bayer, Lana del Rey, Yotto

Books & Writers

Yuval Noah Hariri, Albert Camus, Carl Sagan, Alan Watts, Don Miguel, Seneca, Erich Fromm

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Moved across the country to try and build a life I wanted, knowing no one at all
Held on to the ability to venture out exploring into the unknown wild and somehow make it out
Been featured in National Geographic for many of the pictures I've taken
Attended Ultra Music Festival 2019 - 5K marathon surviver lol
Road tripped across North America (east coast to west coast) US & Canada solo over 20K miles
Drove 17 hours to watch the 2017 solar eclipse at its greatest totality
Hiked up miles in 12,000ft elevation to witness a waterfall frozen that even the locals hadn't
Explored Montreal on a blackout snowstorm warning day under 7 feet of snow
Went on a solo bag-packing Euro tour to 17 countries
Found way out to what I am now from being 60lbs (30kgs)- most bullied student in school :)
Moved to America when I was 16, alone, for college, no friends no family

What I Can Share with Hosts

I like to think I've music for almost every situation, event or feeling/emotion, let me expose you to some?
I read a lot and so I'd be happy to provide recommendations on whatever topic you wish
Much of my reddit karma is from advice on self growth, stoicism, and challenges of relationships, I'd be happy to talk about these topics
I love to indulge in deep conversations about the world, the universe, and all the concepts of everything as we know it, and how the world has changed and how we can improve it
I can share my diverse programming expertise from across a wide range of tech stack. I have countless experience stories, things that I feel blessed to have realized way early on in life than most people tend to and my music collection :)
I cook cuisines from across cultures ;)
I photograph! Free photoshoots for you if you're willing to be my model! :D

Also, anything else you'd like

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Saudi Arabia, United States

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