CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life

ABOUT ME

I'm currently living in Barcelona! I'm a full time animal rights activist, raising awareness about animal exploitation!:)
I've lived all my life in Beirut, Lebanon where I've learned a lot from a lot of people. I'm positive and grateful for what I have in my life.
Not a smoker nor a drinker. Life and adventures have shown me more than enough and I enjoy everything to the fullest now without the need of any intoxication (= (and no, I won't be judging you, beer tastes amazing XD)

PHILOSOPHY

The Two Rings.

A rich old man died leaving two sons. For some time the two continued living together in the traditional Indian way, in a single joint household, a joint family. Then they quarreled and decided to separate, dividing all the property between them. Everything was divided fifty-fifty, and thus they settled their affairs. But after the settlement had been made, a small packet was discovered which had been carefully hidden by their father. They opened the packet and found two rings inside, one set with a valuable diamond, and the other an ordinary silver ring worth only a few rupees.

Seeing the diamond, the elder brother developed greed in his mind, and he started explaining the younger one, "To me it appears that this ring is not the earning of our father, but rather an heirloom from his forefathers. That is why he kept it separate from his other possessions. And since it has been kept for generations in our family, it should remain for future generations. Therefore I, being elder, shall keep it. You had better take the silver ring."

The younger brother smiled and said, "All right, be happy with the diamond ring, I'll be happy with the silver one." Both of them placed their rings on their fingers and went their ways.

The younger brother thought to himself, "It is easily understandable that my father kept the diamond ring; it is so valuable. But why did he keep this ordinary silver ring?" He examined the ring closely and found some words engraved on it: "This will also change." "Oh, this is the mantra of my father: 'This will also change!' “He replaced the ring on his finger.

Both brothers faced all the ups and downs of life. When spring came, the elder brother became highly elated, losing the balance of his mind. When autumn or winter came, he fell into deep depression, again losing his mental balance. He became tense, developing hypertension. Unable to sleep at night, he started using sleeping pills, tranquilizers, stronger drugs. Finally, he reached the stage where he required electric shock treatments. This was the brother with the diamond ring.

As for the younger brother with the silver ring, when spring came, he enjoyed it; he didn’t try to run away from it. He enjoyed it, but looked at his ring and remembered, “This will also change.” And when it changed, he could smile and say, ‘’Well, I knew it was going to change. It has changed, so what!
When autumn or winter came, again he looked at his ring and remembered, “This will also change.” He didn’t start crying, knowing that this would also change. And yes, it also changed, it passed away. Of all the ups and downs, all the vicissitudes of life, he knew that nothing is eternal, that everything comes just to pass away. He did not lose the balance of his mind and he lived a peaceful, happy life.

This was the brother with the silver ring.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to meet the most people possible and help even more! Unfortunately I still never had the chance to host someone because of many different difficulties I had throughout the last year and a half, but I did travel and stayed with extremely amazing people or met and walked around with others in Paris to give them as much help and good times as possible :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

New to couchsurfing so I don't really have a lot of experience, although I've slept at people I've met while traveling and had travelers at my place back in Lebanon, I'm still waiting to have the perfect timing (and enough space) to actually host people!).

Interests

Adrenaline
Documentaries
Veganism
Nature
Photography
The Universe
Books
Vipassana Meditation
Architecture
History
Art
Skateboarding & Snowboarding

• arts
• books
• architecture
• photography
• documentaries
• running
• meditation
• traveling
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• skateboarding
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:Any music as long as it sounds good! mostly gipsy music,cultural,tribal, reggae, and all the way to dubstep and drum'n'bass or metal.

Movies:DOCUMENTARIES! I can spend hours watching them :)

Books:Anything that can keep me entertained and that can give me information about other cultures and/or philosophies

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

skydiving in Serbia!

Teach, Learn, Share

Mind over Matter.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Armenia, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Lebanon, Spain

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