I was tagged by Rebellious Arab Girl. & ProudPali. I have to list 6 things a girl must learn to do and avoid before she turns 18.

1. Enjoy every minute you spend with your family. You would never know where you’d end up.. in what country, or how often you will be visiting. Being a teenager can be hard, there are times when you wouldn’t want to listen to your mom’s advices, or you’d simply feel like locking the door and staying in your room.. but you’d get to realize grown ups are wise, and that those advices are the ones which will get you far away from troubles.

My father in-law once said ‘it needs kids years to get to what their parents have already forgotten‘!!!

2. Learn that there is a right time for everything. Don’t rush it, just live it day by day and enjoy..

Be wild, love life, travel as much as you can, be crazy as much as you want, change your look (hair & piercing), have a hobby (music, dancing, swimming, photography, arts and crafts, anything..) just keep yourself busy, try to let your energy out and make a use of it..

Build strong friendships cause old (school) friends are the ones that would stay there forever and forever..

3. Get the highest marks. Be on the top of the scale ALWAYS. Cause once you are there, you’ll always want to stay there. And you would never settle for less..

4. Watch your weight. Even if this means to do it every month! Food is about getting what you NEED, nothing more.. nothing less. It is the time when you should eat healthy and when the body is responding perfectly. Make sure to get the right share of Fish, Meat, Chicken, MILK and EGGS. Try to avoid sweets and chocolates, once you get used to them you become addicted, and you’ll end up getting pimples and it would be so hard when you want to get rid of all the fat later on.

5. Have as many crushes as you want, but don’t get in anything serious. Don’t fall in love. Cause there is no love at that immature age, you would think it’s love, but later on you’d see how mistaken you were especially when you become more mature and your standards become higher.. your way of thinking would also change, what you would need and want in a partner would no longer be ‘kids talk’, it would be the real thing. Once your emotions are more stable and you know exactly where you are and what you want to be, then you are ready for love.

6. Dream BIG. It is where you want to be and how you see yourself in 10 or 20 years time what really matters. This way you won’t settle for less than what you deserve, and you will always strive to be better, to do better and to excel.

I tag :

Noura’s World, Hayat, Marvin the Martin, My Breathing Space, sam, tinkerbella’s reality

The rules for this tag are:

Post these rules before presenting your list.

List 6 actions or achievements you think every person should accomplish before turning 18.

There are no conditions on what can be included on the list.

At the end of your blog, choose 6 people to get tagged and list their names.

People who are tagged write their own blog entry with their 6 suggestions.

Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged.

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The Veronicas - Untouched

From Wikipedia
The Veronicas is an award winning Australian group led by identical twin sisters Lisa Marie Origliasso and Jessica Louise Origliasso

It felt very refreshing to read the article that Ben Stubbs wrote about the dead sea and the great effect of its mud’s minerals and salts on skin. And mentioning also Jordan’s tourists religious attractions.

‘ I feel sufficiently pampered as I walk back up the banks with a souvenir of world-class mud plastered to the back of my board shorts for later.’ [source]

I really hope there will be more writing about the Dead Sea and its wonders. It is one of the places I miss the most, and it is definitely worth the visit and the whole experience. I don’t think it gets the proper promotion that it deserves! And it’s extremely annoying knowing that very few people know where is the lowest point on earth!!

I sent some photos to my sister, and her reply was very unexpected.

‘I LOVE them, this is the first time I see you looking like this, living abroad really suits you!!!’

It sounds strange hearing those words from her and knowing how much she misses me…!

I often get confused when it comes to what people say and consider as a joke. Some of those jokes I find extremely unacceptable, especially when there’s a hidden meaning behind them. I learned it the hard way, I will REFUSE and will never let anyone interfere with my personal life. I will never ever think that revealing what’s personal help in solving problems, cause after marriage your personal life would happen to involve two.. and it’s so unfair to consider it as yours only. I will not allow anyone to cross the lines, and I would fight anyone with ill intentions, causing troubles even without intending to.

It’s just amazing all the levels of maturity that develop after marriage, and it’s astonishing the strong feelings of protection that you get to hold for your little kingdom. There should always be this unbreakable fence around it, and if you let anyone in even if only once, others would also follow, and this will make things way out of control.. what started with a mistake will end up in a tragedy.

I learned that you can say things to the wrong people.. you can hear things that can affect you for quite a long time from the wrong people too.. and when it gets tough you’d find it hard to differentiate between a friend with a good intention but lacks the skill to express, hence gets misunderstood.. and a bad friend hidden carefully behind a colorful mask. You can do many things that might seem vague to others, and this all shouldn’t really hold you back.. cause it would all happen for the one and only reason.. keeping the ship moving smoothly away from any destroying waves.

I learned that it’s great to be sociable, but it’s not too great to be too nice. That it is in your hands to make things work or walk out on them. That you need to open up and be honest with yourself before looking for answers from anywhere or anyone else.. and that patience, faith, and confidence can be the key to almost all closed doors and can get you out of everything including the unthinkable.